Sentences with phrase «nesting land birds»

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(As it's been said: You can't prevent a bird from landing on your head, but you can keep it from building a nest.)

It's been said: «You can't stop a bird from landing on your head.

Interior Department officials said the revisions to the Obama - era plans were aimed at increasing flexibility on public lands where the birds reside — not undoing protections outright.

Absurd: young earth earth created before the stars birds created before land animals Pi = 3 bats are birds not mammals the list goes on and on...

For example, Genesis» «7 days» of creation isn't 7 days, or 7 ages, but an allegory about human nature as rational (Days 1 & 4 symbolized by the sun, moon, & stars), sensate (Days 2 & 5, symbolized by birds & fish), and physical (symbolized by plants and land).

The Bible says all plants (including fruit and therefore flowering plants), then fish and birds, then land animals, then man They don't agree.

Additionally, if similar body types, e.g. density, were the primary factor then why don't we find any dolphins with sharks prior to the appearance of mammals, or mice with lizards, or birds with fish prior to land animals, or even fruits with plants prior to land animals as the Bible would have us believe?

If the coin landed on tails, the turkey would have been the national bird, eagles would still be endangered, you'd have to settle for eating ham (still an obomination according to the Bible) for Thanksgiving dinner, and you wouldn't care a lick about this.

Fish still have gills because they have not yet moved to land, Some birds did not need to fly, therefor their wings grew tiny and useless, every living thing evolved to adapt to it's surroundings.

-- you can't have the earth and the waters before light if you construe «let there be light» as the big bang / cosmic background radiation — you can't have day and night before the sun — the earth doesn't form before the sun — you can't have plants before the sun — the birds come after the land animals, not before

Protected areas are not sufficient for nature conservation, especially for migratory species (e.g. birds) because surrounding habitats are agricultural lands which often create negative externalities.

Not Larry Bird or John Havlicek or Bill Russell, but the kid from Inglewood, California, who landed on their doorstep after more than a decade of irrelevance and gave them a reason to come to the Garden again.

There is some local coverage about the potential move and the stadium sites mentioned don't seem viable unless UT or the city is going to give up some of their land along Lady Bird lake which I just don't see happening.

I was alone in my father's house, watching the Wisconsin winter through the big picture windows — goldfinches and cardinals at the bird feeder, flights of mallards rising and circling and landing on the Menomonee across the road, icicles dripping from the eaves and then freezing again as the sun went down — but I wasn't seeing a bit of it.

Jan. 3: A trio of tropical birds has landed in Chicago this winter to show off their vibrantly colored feathers and occasional dance moves — but they won't be here for long.

A final plan for the land has not yet been devised, but park officials say they envision an «outdoor museum» consisting of wetland areas, landscaped berms, an oak savanna, bird sanctuary, weather station, wind tower, new playgrounds and picnic areas and an expanded and improved 12th Street Beach.

Mass Audubon's Bird Conservation team has developed an informative document that outlines best management practices for nesting grassland birds for fields owned by municipalities, land trusts, private landowners, and conservation groups.

Both birds nest on cliffs and feed on grazed land, but the choughs eat insects while the ravens feed on carrion.

We saw not only the iguanas and frigate birds familiar from San Cristóbal but also blue - footed and red - footed boobies, white - tipped reef sharks, more turtles, land iguanas, and other creatures.

Festo does not plan any further generations of the SmartBird, and ornithopters in general still have a long way to go — especially in being able to land like a bird — before they are ready for the runway.

«As long as the older trees are not so stressed that they do not produce many viable seeds, [and] the dispersal mechanism — for example, wind, birds, mammals — is present, and the habitat where the seed lands has the appropriate soil, nutrients and temperature,» says biologist Terry Root of Stanford University, who was not involved in the study, «then the trees will be able to shift.»

What's most surprising is not that the birds could sleep while flying, but how little they did: an average of 42 minutes a day in flight, compared with 12 hours a day on land, according to neuroscientist Niels Rattenborg of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.

But they had a lot of trouble with the idea that the Earth was in motion, because if it's in motion why don't we feel it; you know, why aren't the birds swept backwards; why if you drop a heavy object from a tall tower, why doesn't it land near the base of the tower, shouldn't it be wooshed away?

With access to museum ornithological collections from areas of South America that Darwin had not visited, Gould corrected a number of taxonomic errors Darwin had made (such as labeling two finch species a «Wren» and an «Icterus») and pointed out to him that although the land birds in the Galpagos were endemic to the islands, they were notably South American in character.

This spring, many ground - nesting birds such as the skylark were attracted to nest in the 600 000 acres of land left fallow under the scheme.

«It's an unprecedented engagement that happened with private landowners and with state agencies to make sure that bird was not listed,» says Land Tawney, president of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, a Montana - based group that advocates for public lands access and wildlife protections.

Not only are they the largest living birds and the fastest ones on land, but they are probably the only animal with two kneecaps in each leg.

«Although birds in this study were shown to compensate by switching to other seed types, the findings suggest that the capacity of grazed lands to support similar numbers of birds as ungrazed lands may be compromised,» according to the Vermont Center for Ecostudies» Rosalind Renfrew, an expert on grassland bird conservation who was not involved in the study.

They watched birds from the beginning of the nest - building process, and discovered that the parakeets carry sticks to the nest site by landing on the lines, and then walking to the spot where the line meets the pole, instead of flying there directly.

Once the nest is big enough to land on, the birds still use the line as a walkway most of the time.

I was a bit surpriced to hear that my practitioner recommends not eating livers full stop, be it from fish, birds, or land animals, as the toxins from that animals body are surely left in the liver tissue.

Buds have already burst into blossoms and birds are coaxing you out of bed at dawn, but spring isn't in full bloom until one more telltale sign: the first nuptial announcement lands in your mailbox.

OTHER CONTENDERS Riz Ahmed — Una Tadanobu Asano — Silence Warren Beatty — Rules Don't Apply * Steve Carell — Café Society Kevin Costner — Hidden Figures Adam Driver — Silence Aaron Eckhart — Bleed for This * Alden Ehrenreich — Rules Don't Apply * Colin Farell — The Lobster Lucas Hedges — Manchester by the Sea Garrett Hedlund — Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Jack Huston — The Yellow Birds Edward Norton — Collateral Beauty Jack O'Connell — HHhH Edgar Ramirez — Gold * Jeremy Renner — Arrival * Peter Sarsgaard — Jackie Michael Shannon — Nocturnal Animals * J.K. Simmons — La La Land Chris Tucker — Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk David Wenham — Lion *

The idea of a renewal of society is common in Hitchcock's work (even The Birds, his most nihilistic piece, finds Melanie eventually supplanting the mother and taking her catatonic place as the broken, passive, utterly domesticated housewife), but in Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the standard sunny resolution to the screwball master plot doesn't land with a hint of irony — the suffering in the picture is the couple's joy.

Producers Khadija Alami — «Insoumise (Rebellious Girl),» «Itar El - Layl (Narrow Frame of Midnight)» Joshua Astrachan — «Paterson,» «Short Term 12» Fred Berger — «The Autopsy of Jane Doe,» «La La Land» Jason Michael Berman — «Burning Sands,» «The Birth of a Nation» Moritz Borman — «Snowden,» «W.» Karin Chien — «Circumstance,» «The Exploding Girl» Michael Costigan — «Ghost in the Shell,» «A Bigger Splash» Pablo Cruz — «Cesar Chavez,» «Miss Bala» Mel Eslyn — «Lamb,» «The One I Love» Howard Gertler — «How to Survive a Plague,» «Shortbus» Aaron L. Gilbert — «Beatriz at Dinner,» «The Birth of a Nation» Mindy Goldberg — «Low Down,» «Junebug» Carla Hacken * — «The Book of Henry,» «Hell or High Water» Jordan Horowitz — «La La Land,» «The Kids Are All Right» Lars Knudsen — «American Honey,» «Beginners» Juan de Dios Larraín — «Jackie,» «No» Sophia Lin — «Z for Zachariah,» «Take Shelter» Michel Merkt — «Elle,» «Toni Erdmann» Bertha Navarro — «Pan's Labyrinth,» «The Devil's Backbone» Alex Orlovsky — «The Place beyond the Pines,» «Blue Valentine» Adele Romanski — «Moonlight,» «Morris from America» Robert Salerno — «Nocturnal Animals,» «We Need to Talk about Kevin» Jeffrey Sharp — «The Yellow Birds,» «You Can Count on Me» Nansun Shi — «Flying Swords of Dragon Gate,» «A Simple Life» Gabrielle Tana — «Philomena,» «The Invisible Woman» Jenno Topping — «Hidden Figures,» «Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children» Frida Torresblanco — «Rudo y Cursi,» «Pan's Labyrinth» Jay Van Hoy — «Complete Unknown,» «Ain't Them Bodies Saints» Julie Yorn — «Hell or High Water,» «The Other Woman» Public Relations Clive Baillie Michael Brown Matt Cowal Tomy Drissi Sonya Y. Ede - Williams Lynne Frank Jonathan Garson Peter Giannascoli Marvin Gray Simon Hewlett Melissa Holloway Angela Johnson Wellington Love Michelle Marks Bill Neil Douglas Neil Angela Paura Heather Johnson Phillips Tom Piechura Pamela Rodi Ivette Rodriguez Jeff Sanderson Jerry Schmitz Lauren Schwartz Carol Sewell Michael Singer Afrat Spalding Kristin Stark Maggie Todd Norman Wang Bumble Ward Joe Whitmore Lea Yardum Kevin Allen Yoder

[4 stars] Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (07.15 / 06.02 / 07.24) Thor: Ragnarok (10.24 / 11.03 / 10.24) The Greatest Showman (12.09 / 12.20 / 12.26) Wonderstruck (10.06 / 10.20 / TBA) I Am Not a Witch (10.03 / TBA / 10.20) Lady Bird (10.14 / 11.03 / 02.16.18) The Post (12.21 / 12.22 / 01.19.18) Coco (01.13.18 / 11.22 / 01.19.18) The Ritual (10.02 / direct to Netflix / 10.13) Icarus (02.27.17 / direct to Netflix / direct to Netflix) Bushwick (10.25 / 08.25 / 08.25) Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (10.11 / 12.29 / 11.17) Spider - Man: Homecoming (07.05 / 07.07 / 07.05) Another Mother's Son (02.21 / TBA / 03.24) Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts (89th Academy Awards)(02.20 / 02.08 / direct to VOD) Personal Shopper (10.09.16 / 03.10 / 03.17) The Survivalist (04.19.16 / 05.19 / 02.12.16) God Knows Where I Am (04.07 / 03.31 / 04.14) The Salesman (01.31 / 01.27 / 03.17) Raw (04.04 / 03.01 / 04.07) The Beguiled (06.20 / 06.23 / 07.14) The Party (10.09 / 02.16.18 / 10.13) Step (07.21 / 08.04 / 08.11) God's Own Country (08.07 / 10.27 / 09.01) Menashe (12.11 / 07.28 / 12.08) The Divine Order (10.14 / 10.27 / 03.08.17) Borg vs McEnroe (09.11 / 04.13.18 / 09.22) My Pure Land (09.12 / TBA / 09.15) The Unknown Girl (12.02.16 / 08.25 / 12.02.16) Pecking Order (08.24 / direct to VOD / 09.29) Jane (11.12 / 10.20 / 11.24) Good Time (10.05 / 08.11 / 11.17) The Commune (05.28 / 05.19 / 07.29.16) Lost in London (04.30 / TBA / 05.05) The Fencer (Miekkailija)(11.30 / 07.21 / 12.24.16) The Great Wall (02.16 / 02.17 / 02.16) The Chamber (01.18 / 02.23.18 / 03.10) Motherland (10.15 / 09.08 / TBA) The Light of the Moon (10.31 / 11.01 / TBA) Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (11.18 / 11.24 / 03.09) Victoria & Abdul (09.12 / 09.22 / 09.15) Wind River (07.20 / 08.04 / 09.08) Urban Hymn (08.01.16 / 05.12 / 09.30.16) The Women's Balcony (Ismach Hatani)(07.06 / 05.26 / TBA) Pilgrimage (07.28 / 08.11 / direct to VOD) Megan Leavey (aka Rex)(06.19 / 06.09 / direct to VOD) Final Portrait (08.18 / 03.23.18 / 08.18) Finding Kim (05.29 / 05.31 / TBA) Through the Wall (aka The Wedding Plan)(05.28 / 05.12 / 12.16.16) The Zookeeper's Wife (04.22 / 03.31 / 04.21) Dolores (09.09 / 09.01 / TBA) Queen of the Desert (04.03 / 04.07 / direct to VOD) Catfight (02.22 / 03.03 / 03.10) Viceroy's House (02.17 / 09.01 / 03.03) Birthright: A War Story (07.21 / 07.14 / direct to VOD)

The further 20 films in alphabetical order The Beguiled (Sofia Coppola, 2017) The Big Sick (Michael Showalter, 2017) Detroit (Kathryn Bigelow, 2017) Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan, 2017) Fences (Denzel Washington, 2016) The Florida Project (Sean Baker, 2017) Fortunata (Lucky, Sergio Castellitto, 2017) Ah - gah - ssi (The Handmaiden, Park Chan - wook, 2016) I am not your Negro (Raoul Peck, 2016) Jackie (Pablo Larraín, 2016) Juste la Fin du Monde (It's Only the End of the World, Xavier Dolan, 2016) Kedi (Ceyda Torun, 2017) Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, 2017) La La Land (Damien Chazelle, 2016) Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan, 2016) Poesía Sin Fin (Endless Poetry, Alejandro Jodorowsky, 2016) Seasons In Quincy: Four Portaits of John Berger (Tilda Swinton, Colin MacCabe, Bartek Dziadosz, Christopher Roth, 2016) Silence (Martin Scorsese, 2016) La Strada (Federico Fellini, 1955) Toivon Tuolla Puolen (The Other Side of Hope, Aki Kaurismäki, 2017)

Khadija Alami — «Insoumise (Rebellious Girl),» «Itar El - Layl (Narrow Frame of Midnight)» Joshua Astrachan — «Paterson,» «Short Term 12» Fred Berger — «The Autopsy of Jane Doe,» «La La Land» Jason Michael Berman — «Burning Sands,» «The Birth of a Nation» Moritz Borman — «Snowden,» «W.» Karin Chien — «Circumstance,» «The Exploding Girl» Michael Costigan — «Ghost in the Shell,» «A Bigger Splash» Pablo Cruz — «Cesar Chavez,» «Miss Bala» Mel Eslyn — «Lamb,» «The One I Love» Howard Gertler — «How to Survive a Plague,» «Shortbus» Aaron L. Gilbert — «Beatriz at Dinner,» «The Birth of a Nation» Mindy Goldberg — «Low Down,» «Junebug» Carla Hacken * — «The Book of Henry,» «Hell or High Water» Jordan Horowitz — «La La Land,» «The Kids Are All Right» Lars Knudsen — «American Honey,» «Beginners» Juan de Dios Larraín — «Jackie,» «No» Sophia Lin — «Z for Zachariah,» «Take Shelter» Michel Merkt — «Elle,» «Toni Erdmann» Bertha Navarro — «Pan's Labyrinth,» «The Devil's Backbone» Alex Orlovsky — «The Place beyond the Pines,» «Blue Valentine» Adele Romanski — «Moonlight,» «Morris from America» Robert Salerno — «Nocturnal Animals,» «We Need to Talk about Kevin» Jeffrey Sharp — «The Yellow Birds,» «You Can Count on Me» Nansun Shi — «Flying Swords of Dragon Gate,» «A Simple Life» Gabrielle Tana — «Philomena,» «The Invisible Woman» Jenno Topping — «Hidden Figures,» «Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children» Frida Torresblanco — «Rudo y Cursi,» «Pan's Labyrinth» Jay Van Hoy — «Complete Unknown,» «Ain't Them Bodies Saints» Julie Yorn — «Hell or High Water,» «The Other Woman»

The Angry Birds movie will, as I'm sure most of the cast is now contractually obligated to put it, be «slingshotting» into theatres in July of 2016, and although I'm not convinced the game's billions of players are exactly clamoring for a big - screen addition to the franchise, I have to give Rovio credit — I would even watch the live - action Tetris movie if it landed a cast like this.

When the baby birds learn to fly and land, poor Stellaluna is clumsy and embarrassed that she can't land gracefully on a branch because her feet are equipped for hanging, not perching.

The children of these families wouldn't look at us, and they jumped at the sound of chopping wood or as stones landed on the tin roofs flung by children hunting birds with slingshots.

That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don't know the language, where land is in sight for such a long time that after a while it's just the horizon - and then one day birds wheel over that dark shape and it's suddenly close, and all you can do is hope like hell that you've had the right shots.

Guinea fowl are particularly adept at clearing ticks and other insect pests from the land although your neighbors may not appreciate the birds» raucous vocalization!

The minimum working certificate requirements shall be designed to establish that the dog is not gun - shy: accordingly, the dog will be expected to retrieve a shot game bird at a distance of 50 yards or greater on land; further, the dog will be expected to retrieve two ducks from swimming water 1 in immediate succession to establish the dog's willingness to reenter water.

Migratory birds link the people and lands of their nesting grounds in Canada and the United States with those in their non-breeding ranges in Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean.

Eleven of the 60 species of land birds that have nested on the park islands are represented by endemic species or subspecies — forms that are found on the islands and nowhere else.

There are 140 land birds and 11 land mammal species; three amphibian and five reptile species; a large colony of nesting sea birds, breeding seals and sea lions and other diverse marine animals and plants.

Atrapasueños has created 2 different tours, in order to include different landscapes: Option one, takes you to the mountains of Mal País in a private land, that connects its forest with Cabo Blanco National Park, with the benefit of being a couple of hundred meters above sea level, which will allow guests to see species of birds that are not on the coast.

Ranganathittu — 140 KM away Ranganathittu is a thriving breeding and nesting land for numerous reptiles, mammals, and migratory birds that flock here from places as far as North America and Serbia.

Some islands you will cruise around, due to landing restrictions and others, such as the Chathams, you will venture ashore to see birds nesting etc, in their natural habitats.