Sentences with phrase «of flightless bird»

Penguins are a species of flightless bird found in the Mario franchise.

Many of the flightless birds do not leave eastern Antarctica, and they encounter few migratory birds.

The Angry Birds Movie (PG for action and rude humor) Animated adventure, inspired by the video game series of the same name, set on an island inhabited by a flock of flightless birds with anger management issues whose patience is suddenly tested by an overwhelming pig invasion.

A floor up is a selection of drawings, videos, and installations which continue the theme of flightless birds as a metaphor for rural - to - urban migration.

Not exact matches

To start, for those of you who may not know what a kiwi is, it's a small nocturnal and flightless bird that's native to New Zealand.

Flightless Beibeilong sinensis, which lived around 90 million years ago, had feathers, primitive wings and a beak, but dwarfed any of its modern bird relatives.

This firm placement of Gastornis as an herbivore suggests that the community structure of Paleocene Europe was different from that found in North America at the time, and may in fact have been quite similar to the later systems seen on islands, such as Madagascar, where large flightless birds filled many different niches.

After the mass extinctions of the Cretaceous, many terrestrial ecosystems were dominated by large flightless birds.

He's talking about a flightless caracara, like a bird of prey that can't fly, but lived in Jamaica.»

In doing so, he found that the creature's traits were surprisingly similar to those of modern flightless birds such as rails and grebes that frequently dwell on islands.

Scientists are also close to reconstructing the genomes of the dodo, the flightless bird that went extinct from Mauritius, its only home, in the late 1600s; and the great auk, which lived in the North Atlantic before dying out in the mid-19th century.

Scientists at Harvard University have assembled the first nearly complete genome of the little bush moa, a flightless bird that went extinct soon after Polynesians settled New Zealand in the late 13th century.

Many flightless living birds display these feathers, but they are only one small part of a multipart flight apparatus.

A familiar story, this flightless bird's habitat was limited to a single island — King Island off the coast of Australia.

With few trees to obstruct views, it is one of the best places in the country to watch tapir (Tapirus terrestris), giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla), maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus), and, of course, the greater rhea (Rhea americana), the large flightless bird related to the ostrich which is locally known as «ema» in Portuguese.

6 Fashion march of the penguins: Thousands of tiny, colorful sweaters have been knit for these flightless birds, to keep them from preening themselves if they are doused in oil from a spill.

The Mauritius Dodo more commonly just dodo, was a metre - high (three - foot) flightless bird of the island of Mauritius.

Examples are flightless birds like the African ostrich and the Australian emu and Southern Beeches, a genus of 36 species of trees and shrubs which appear in temperate forests from South America to Australia and New Zealand.

Mononychus measured up to a metre from its beak to the tip of its tail, but it resembled none of today's large flightless birds — ostriches, rheas, emus, cassowaries and kiwis.

The Raphinae are a subfamily of extinct flightless birds colloquially called didines or didine birds.

For millions of years, nine species of large, flightless birds known as moas (Dinornithiformes) thrived in New Zealand.

Humans have driven thousands of species extinct over the millennia, ranging from moas — giant, flightless birds that lived in New Zealand — to most lemurs in Madagascar.

The flightless, carnivorous terror birds — that s what scientists call them — likely hopped to North America via islands that came to form what is today the Isthmus of Panama.

«There were around a half - dozen species of elephant birds, all flightless.

Earlier finds from Liaoning had hinted at the presence of featherlike structures on several dinosaur specimens, but critics charged that the structures were instead fibers of the protein collagen or that the fossils represented not dinosaurs but flightless birds.

The Dromornis murrayi, a 551 - pound flightless bird, now emerges as the earliest ancestor of the Dromornis giant birds.

Great Auk Called «the penguin of the north,» these flightless pelagic birds thrived throughout the north Atlantic ocean, but their restriction to a few crowded islands for breeding made them vulnerable to exploitation by humans that reached industrial scale.

If scientists could find a lot more dodo DNA, they might be able to identify the genetic variations that turned the ancestors of dodos — small, flying pigeons — into big flightless birds.

As the name suggests, this oil is extracted from the back fat of the Australian Emu bird (Dromaius novaehallandiae), a flightless bird native to Australia (similar to the ostrich).

It's about a wealthy Manhattan real estate shark named Popper (Jim Carrey) who is illegally hoarding exotic animals in his high - rise penthouse - a half dozen rare penguins, which he keeps to mollify his entitled children, who whine and pout when he speaks of having the flightless birds removed.

Despite that in the real world it would probably take one phone call to get rid of the flightless fowl, Popper decides to keep all of the birds.

In any case, the film, directed with bounce and snap by Mark Waters, stands as a comeback of sorts for Jim Carrey, who mugs and prances and does funny voices and manages not to be upstaged by a half - dozen flightless birds.

Mr. Popper's Penguins probably has the same effect on anyone who might harbor a fantasy of having a waddling, flightless bird as a pet.

On the way to his first session, we see that the island is full of happy and flightless birds who greatly contrast Red, who lives outside of the village and has been an angry loner since childhood.

Three flightless birds (Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride) investigate the mysterious arrival of green pigs to their island paradise.

The screenplay was written by newcomer Phil Johnston, of A Thousand Words, Flightless Birds and Ghosts / Aliens previously.

THE PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR Flightless birds as spies?

Penguins are short - legged, flightless birds of cold southern hemisphere, especially Antarctica.

When I was in the Boy Scouts, I achieved the rank of auk, the now - extinct, flightless bird, through no fault of theirs.

Great auks, flightless birds resembling penguins, were prolific in the icy waters of the northern Atlantic until human hunters, egg collectors, and climate change led to their extinction.

There was the sunburn that made lying in a sleeping bag excruciating (that was the hubby), rain that nearly washed our tent off a hill and some sort of large, flightless bird threatening to run into camp and do away with us (raccoons sound a lot like squawking chickens, and yes, that one was all me).

More than 10,000 species of birds exist in the world, with about 10 percent of those species found in the U.S.. Although most birds fly when they need to travel any distance, some are flightless, and the mountain quail of California actually makes its annual migration on foot.

Once without predators, many of these birds evolved to be flightless.

In isolation, New Zealand bloomed into a biome of species known nowhere else in the world, including the Moa: huge, flightless birds hunted to extinction by the early peoples.

In evolutionary terms, the flightless birds, or ratites, were some of the earliest types of birds to develop.

As you would expect from an island with unspoilt terrain, Stewart is home to many species of bird including 20,000 of the endangered brown kiwi, the flightless Stewart Island kiwi and the nearly extinct kakapo parrot.

This is the nesting place for flightless cormorants, the only existing marine birds in the world other than penguins that have changed their mode of flying birds to diving birds.

Known as one of Tropical North Queensland «s most scenic beaches, Etty Bay is truly where the rainforest meets the sea and it's where you can spot Australia's largest flightless bird, the Southern Cassowary.

Upon request, Artisans of Leisure can arrange additional activities such as playing golf, biking through the vineyards, visiting a colony of gannet seabirds, a tour of the Cape Kidnappers sheep and cattle ranch, fly fishing on local streams and visiting a kiwi habitat in search of New Zealand's famous flightless birds.

Leading a prominently solitary existence, this regal, flightless big bird roams the rainforest and coast of Tropical North Queensland but is so elusive that often the only sign that they truly exist, is literally, a sign.