Sentences with phrase «of smaller birds»

Pet Express carries a wide variety of smaller birds as well as owning a Greenwing Macaw as the store mascot.

With half - inch bar spacing, this model is perfect for many different species of smaller birds, as they won't be able to escape through the small gaps.

Or, I walk through a forest and I notice a large blossom tree, full of small birds happily singing.

Dead fish floated on the surfaces of ponds, and scores of small birds lay dead on the ground.

When the dinosaurs became extinct, plenty of small bird - like dinosaurs disappeared along with giants like Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops.

In the life cycle of this small bird, which is widespread in forests in Europe and Western Asia, moulting only happens once the breeding season is completed.

Hanging out by bird feeders around the world, the insects have been observed feasting on a variety of small birds, in particular, hummingbirds.

Female burying beetles — which belong to the species Nicrophorus vespilloides — routinely fight over the carcasses of small birds and rodents, which they use to provide their young with food.

When in their most elevated position, the wings of small birds interact in a completely different way compared to the wings of bats.

Some 60 genera of pterosaurs have been discovered, ranging in size from that of a small bird to a wingspan of more than 30 feet.

While a simple silohouette can get you kicked off of Lifetime's Project Runway, using that of a small bird is a creative way to add some spring festivity to your Easter place setting.

Pet storeowners and managers may want to encourage interested employees to breed some of the smaller bird species.

We also carry millet strands, a favorite of small birds to snack on.

Wyld's offers a wide variety of small bird cages, medium bird cages, large bird cages, aviaries and breeding cages, along with a huge selection of bird cage stands, accessories and toys for birds.

It was an impressive scene, with hundreds of the small birds forming a solid green wall on the clay.

Our Jamaica excursion involved a bird sanctuary where we fed and took photos of all different kinds of small birds.

The introduced House Mouse (Mus musculus), is no doubt taken when found, along with occasional predation upon low - lying nests of small birds.

The exhibit title is inspired by the practice, in some species of small birds, of migrating in the wrong direction.

Specifically, it looks at the swarm formation of the Northern Wheatear, a passerine bird, which has one of the furthest migration routes out of all small birds.

Her works of public art include Roman Standard, a bronze sculpture of a small bird adjacent to Liverpool Cathedral.

Northern Pygmy - Owls prey on a wide range of small birds, and they tend to be fairly common (although greatly under - detected) year - round throughout their range.

Although they are some of the smallest birds in the world, what hummingbirds lack in size, they make up for in skills.

Not exact matches

Also Monday, environmentalists agreed to put on hold another lawsuit over protections for the Gunnison sage grouse, a smaller version of the bird found only in Colorado and Utah.

Also Monday, environmentalists agreed to put on hold another lawsuit over protections for the Gunnison sage grouse, a smaller version of the bird which is found only in Colorado and Utah.

Environmental groups have launched a pair of court battles over protections for an imperiled bird on public land in the Western U.S. but called a truce in a third lawsuit involving its smaller cousin.

The first Little Birds to enter service with the 160th were actually OH - 6A Cayuses, small helos that were already on their way out of the Army and National Guard by the time SOAR was created.

Assessing the size is also difficult: even though the perspective might be a factor here, the object seems to be smaller than the F - 16s, but probably much larger than a micro-drone as the bird - sized Perdix drones, 103 of those, launched from three F / A -18 F Super Hornets, took part in one of the world's largest micro-drone swarms over the skies of Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California on Oct. 25, 2016.

For the birding hobbyist: Handcrafted by a small workshop in France, this Town Bird Call Set ($ 50) comes with two wooden calls that duplicates the songs of wild birds.

For veterinarians, the category generally consists of reptiles and amphibians, birds and small mammals.

The birds look out at me, at the man holding his iPhone to the wall so a distant friend can pray into its mortar, at the Israeli soldiers completing their training and swearing to die for their country before this last remnant of the second Temple, at the masses of praying men and women — the women in a smaller area, separated from the men and further from the holiest part of the Wall.

By link, we mean a necessary stage of transition between classes such as reptiles and birds, or between smaller groups.

The small boy knelt beside the water, Sculpting birds of earth Which flew off when he told them to scatter.

According to natural selection the members of the bird species with the smallest useless wing would be the most adaptable and most likely to survive in the largest numbers.

Every day, I see that birdhouse out of my kitchen window, I see it when I go to bed at night, a small white and blue birdhouse, in the middle of a forest, empty and beautiful, our own road to nowhere, the birdhouse without birds in a forest behind our fence, public land.

Though it is the smallest of seeds, yet, when it has grown up, it is the largest of garden plants, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the sky come and roost in its branches.»

Jesus tells us that though the mustard seed is small it will grow, and the birds of the air will shelter among its branches; though much of the seed is wasted, some seed will fall on the good soil and will bring forth fruit abundantly.

And for artist Ruth Meharg, they inspired a series of small acrylic paintings that employ the symbolically - rich imagery of birds.

Though the mustard seed is small, it grows into a big bush and the birds of the air find shelter in it.

Returning to school, which was admirable for birding, being small and in the country, with nothing but fields, woods, and streams for miles around, I began to learn the small land birds of eastern Pennsylvania and in a few years knew them fairly completely without any assistance from others except the Reed's guide.

Day 5 — God creates all the birds and fish for all the sky and waters of the earth (except for a small portion of the sky somewhere else, which is not mentioned in Gen 1:20)

Out on the farm, the storyteller keeps a journal («forty - eight animals seen today before lunch, of which all but six were birds, most small and brownish»), and begins to «experience

I did not think of myself as God nor did I think the bird thought I was «god», but I KNEW that God had created both the bird and me and I was grateful to be able to help the smaller creature.

Topher, I can certainly prove that Bats aren't birds, rabbits don't chew cud, insects don't have 4 legs, the mustard seed is not the smallest of all seeds, there is no firmament, and that the earth was not formed before the sun.

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.

Thousands of dogs, cats, birds, lizards and man - eating Iguanas are being given away, or let go for a small donation.

Like folk songs their wings wheel and hover, careless As falcons, I am their anxious scribe, listening myself into their coarse cries, storing the separate Notes in small black spaces at the back of my skull, God, if I were a bird I think I would stop worrying!

But within minutes we are mesmerized at the sight of gaggles of birds, large and small, elegant and comical, obeying the secret inner prompting that sets them to fly hundreds, even thousands of miles to serve the demands of life and survival.

«Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches.»

Among the various kinds I can mention only the pimmt - cafe, or «coffee - pepper,» larger but about the same shape as a grain of Liberian coffee, violet - red at one end; the piment - zoueseau, or bird - pepper, small and long and scarlet; — and the piment - capresse, very large, pointed at one end, and bag - shaped at the other.

While the Government has retained thresholds that enable an exemption from the requirement for development consent — for those farms with less than 1000 birds or 200 pigs or 20 sows — the introduction of a 500m setback from neighbouring dwellings or environmentally sensitive areas that triggers a Development Application is a major barrier for pastured pig and poultry farming on small acreages.