Sentences with phrase «number around each bird»

So researchers often place a small metal band inscribed with an identifying number around each bird's flipper.

Not exact matches

Your claim for number 9 about fish and birds ignores the fact that there were dinosaurs around between those two groups and yet you want to claim those as day 6, not day 5.

On about the fourth attempt to move in close, I crossed a small clearing and was about to swing around a bush when over it I saw a number of birds wing into the air with loud chirping.

An even bigger problem, he says, is that competitive displays by male birds seeking to mate with females are «only observed in a small number of species around the world.»

A study published in Ecological Applications led by Professor John Swaddle, visiting Research Associate at the University of Exeter, found that filling a controlled area with acoustic noise around an airfield, where the majority of collisions tend to take place, can reduce the number of birds in the area by 80 per cent.

The penguins once numbered around 2,000 individuals, but in the early 1980s a strong El Niño — a time when sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific are unusually warm — brought their numbers down to less than 500 birds.

Christian, who led the study as part of his research degree (MRes) in Vertebrate Palaeontology, adds: «Our results indicate that the number, and the relative thickness, of layers around the circumference of the rachis and along the feather's length are not fixed, and may vary either in order to cope with the stresses of flight particular to the bird or to the lineage that the individual belongs to.»

Typical numbers for the total number of bird species worldwide tend to center around a range of 9,000 to 10,000, but the museum's scientists say that number is likely closer to 18,000.

While there were a number of possible titles thrown around, it started to look likely that the PlayBook would be joining iOS and Android as platforms supported by Rovio's Angry Birds Space (and beating - out Windows Phone in the process).

This begins with a cage that is large enough so your bird can move around while having a good number of toys, ladders, and perches available to play with.

That's crazy since the total number of birds that reside in the U.S. is around 3.2 billion (Partners in Flight 2013).

That's a number that ABC first began throwing around in their 2010 book The American Bird Conservancy Guide to Bird Conservation.

Numbers of the pretty bird, with white plumage, a long white crest and distinctive bright blue frame around its eyes, plunged over the past half a century in Bali, as development exploded and the starling proved popular with poachers.

The fact that it is now showing up in Hawai`i in double - digit numbers around breeding season is huge news and potentially a major development in the efforts to protect this species from extinction,» said Dr. George Wallace, Vice President for Oceans and Islands at American Bird Conservancy, the nation's leading bird conservation organizatBird Conservancy, the nation's leading bird conservation organizatbird conservation organization.

When I compare the number of birds at my back yard feeder, the number of rabbits, squirrels and chipmunks running around this year to last, I'd say nature has adapted very well to the extremely rapid warming we've experienced in the last 12 months.

Commenters to an Illinois birding web site where the pictures are posted say there's been a lot more pelicans hanging around since the carp moved in to Illinois rivers a number of years ago.