Sentences with phrase «more bird food»

One novel way to sell more bird food to customers is to recommend food based on the species» innate food preference, said Jamie Whittaker, co-owner of ABC Birds in Humble, Texas.

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The leading international food and beverage company has committed that more than one million of the eggs it uses each year will not come from hens crammed into battery cages, which provide each bird less space than a single sheet of paper on which to spend her entire life.

Not a food - gathering entrepreneur by nature, the current national bird prefers sponging off the efforts of smaller, more capable food - finding species whenever he can.

The leading international food and beverage company has committed that more than one million of the eggs it uses each year will not come from hens crammed into battery cages, which provide each bird less space than a single sheet of paper on which to spend her entire life.

The prepared foods division of Simmons is a farm - to - fork poultry producer operating three hatcheries and two feed mills, as well as more than 20 managed firms raising 200 million birds a year.

Who knew sunflower seeds could be more than just bird food!

From closing time until 2 a.m. every day, there's a special menu with foods early birds will never see, including «thrice - cooked chips» with cumin mayo, a grilled three - cheese sandwich, burgers, lamb bacon, and more.

That said, I'm really hoping the title of this recipe doesn't confuse more people into thinking my site is all about making food for pet birds OR even worse, humans eating bird seed.

The basal metabolic rate, an indication of how efficiently food is turned into energy, was higher in the tamer birds, who gained more weight per kilogram of food consumed, the researchers report online today in Biology Letters.

The city birds bested their country counterparts in one other trait: They have more robust immune systems, possibly from scavenging food and water in dirty places.

It often takes more than 24 hours for food to pass through a duck's guts, enough time for the birds to travel up to 1300 km.

Specifically, some previous research has shown that wading bird nesting colonies could provide substantial food for alligators in the form of dropped chicks, which are chicks ejected from the nest when a bird lays more eggs than they can raise.

Wild birds that are more clever than others at foraging for food have different levels of a neurotransmitter receptor that has been linked with intelligence in humans, according to a study led by McGill University researchers.

The birds likely benefit when milder temperatures and more rain during the warm phases of the climate cycles make food more abundant in their winter quarters, Nott says.

In a study population made up of 68 bird nests, the researchers found that chicks that were raised in groups received 19 % more food than those fed by their parents alone.

Now, scientists have reported in the journal Bird Study that concentrating on making food supplies less accessible may prove more effective at countering these «nuisance events» than removing rooftop nesting.

When parent birds were stressed, they automatically reduced offspring feeding and spent more time searching for food for themselves.

More recently, researchers have shown that the ratio of isotopes in feathers can provide a rough guide to where a bird has been feeding, because the feather ratios mirror those of food sources.

Now, researchers reporting April 21 in Current Biology suggest that abrupt ecological changes following a meteor impact may have been more detrimental to carnivorous bird - like dinosaurs, and early modern birds with toothless beaks were able to survive on seeds when other food sources declined.

What is more, birds with no experience stealing from hidden reserves belonging to other birds moved their food supply significantly less often than did thieving birds, regardless of whether they were watched.

Early in the study the birds consuming natural foods seemed to be eating a little more than the control group and weighed slightly more.

The dry conditions, the researchers suspect, reduce available food resources, leaving the young birds more susceptible to starvation and predation.

If there's not enough food, for example, a mother bird might offer more to those chicks who are more likely to survive.

More than half of U.S. households provide food for birds.

The adult populations of 10 species, including the spotted towhee (Pipilo maculatus) and song sparrow (Melospiza melodia), were doing fine in these habitats, perhaps because they have more food resources thanks to human - provided bird feeders.

The more challenging task required birds to obtain food hanging below their perch on a 50 - centimeter - long string.

Geese on the periphery may have to be more watchful for predators, but they have access to better - quality food than birds at the centre.

The results showed that birds more often kept their tools safe without dropping them once the first food appeared when the reward was placed in the elevated feeding position.

Rhesus macaques, primates brought from Asia in the 1930s to entice more tourists to an area now known as Silver Springs State Park, likely prey on eggs of the park's birds, a new University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences study shows.

Only when foraging for food, which is far more energy - intensive, did the birds drop to elevations below 30 meters.

Not only have Ms. Nelson Slater and Dr. Hauber shown that certain birds of prey can use scent to find a food source, but their methodology also provides zoos with a novel, safe and effective means to encourage more species - specific feeding behaviors — particularly ripping and tearing — in birds of prey.

The bears also spend a lot more time near bird nesting grounds, which suggests eggs have become a significant food source.

When they put food in, the birds fought more when the food was limited.

He said animals that can migrate — like whales and birds — are more likely to adapt, while species bound to a particular environment, or food source, will face greater challenges.

He suggests that while the opposite birds found safety in the trees, life in more open, aquatic spaces may have given the ornithuromorphs «more choices of high protein food» and favored their evolution into swift fliers so they could avoid the danger of predators.

The finding dovetails nicely with work by the Grants that documents the species» rapid evolution as recently as the 1980s, when a drought affected the bird's food supply and its beak started to become more pointed to accommodate a new diet.

LIFE is miserable for the estimated 20 billion broiler chickens raised for food each year — but a new way of knocking the birds out before they are killed may at least give them a more humane death.

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Maybe, just maybe, the more you practice mindful eating, the more your awareness will begin to expand as you recognize the restorative beauty in the food you eat, then in things happening all around you such as the birds chirping, children laughing, and the brilliant shades of pink and orange painting the night sky.

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Selling products for wild birds is a win - win for everyone, as the birds get a high - quality food to eat, the customer feels they are caring for their wild birds and the store brings in more business.

It may take a week or two or more for a bird to try new foods, but just keep offering them and in appropriately sized pieces for the bird.

Of course, during winter, birds that live in colder areas will benefit from any extra fat they can consume, given that other food items are more scarce.

Educating the employees will allow them to teach customers why the wild bird food sold at the pet store is not only healthier for the birds and will attract more species, but also a better value than the cheaper mixes.

Note that heating food makes it more tempting to the bird and can sometimes get picky parrots to try something new — especially a main diet.

That is why it is important to keep trying the same foods over and over again — put the foods in clips and foraging toys, eat it in front of the birds like you love it, cover their normal diet with new food so they will have to move it, warm up those foods you can as they will smell more, and do anything else that can entice birds to eat something new.

Besides high - quality seed and seed mixes, there are a number of other food products retailers should offer, as they will attract even more species of birds outside the usual seedeaters.

Offering the bird both the new and more familiar or favored foods in equal measure and then letting the bird choose what it wants to eat, simply will not work.

Our dogs, cats, birds and even reptiles seem to have a bigger curiosity about our human foods and household plants more than anything else.