Sentences with phrase «on carrion»

In fact, «Shadowland» is filled with owls peering everywhere — from the corners or behind branches — as well as other fierce - looking birds in the process of feasting on their carrion.

When fish sources are unavailable, eagles may rely largely on carrion, especially in winter, and they will scavenge carcasses up to the size of whales, though it seems that carcasses of hoofed animals and large fish are preferred.

In general, hyenas are large, strong, flesh - eating animals that hunt a wide range of prey but mostly feed on carrion (the kills of other predators).

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

They are getters, in fact, of anything that has the natural curiosity to reach down and pull lightly on the carrion - scented wick that protrudes above the ground and wafts a smell of decay and musk to the winds.

Not exact matches

Both Jesus and John describe the Son of Man coming from heaven on the clouds to conquer (Matthew 24:30; Rev 19:11 - 16), carrion birds gathering to feast on the carcasses (Matt 24:28; Rev 19:17 - 18), and the passing away of heaven and earth (Matthew 24:35; Rev 21:1).

Pointing in the preface to his own «robust muse» and «Bellocian bellicosity,» Pearce goes on to mock contemporary writers on Shakespeare as «vultures,» «carrion critics,» «gossip and gutter - oriented «scholars,»» and «silly asses of academe.»

Yet, that deja vu would appear completely lost, on the opportunistic brood that clambered to his Minna hill top mansion, like vultures swooping on a thick ooze of carrion — political carrion of lazy and illicit advantage.

Hoping to answer that question in 2007 on an expedition off the coast of the Bahamas, Widder set the lure so that it glowed with a single blue light, imitating the light emitted by bacteria that often cover carrion on the seafloor.

The researchers also recorded eight other species of carrion - eating birds, two mammals, and even a lizard taking advantage of the remains — although the tiny reptile was probably feeding on insects attracted to the carcass, says Elbroch.

Additionally, although carrion flies mainly home in on large animal carcasses, other invertebrate surveyors could help scientists study different ecosystem layers — for instance, carrion beetles, which feast on smaller carcasses, including those of birds.

Last year, scientists in Denmark showed that terrestrial leeches can be used similarly to sample an area's fauna, though they feast on fewer species than do carrion flies, don't travel as far in search of prey, and live in only certain habitats.

Unless you know what carrion means, you would not know that the pun involves the word carrion and the phrase carry on.

on Gates Foundation and carrion fly into Hartford as part of public education privatization effort

Raccoon Dogs feed on insects, rodents, amphibians, birds, fish, reptiles, mollusks and carrion.

In Kiss of Death (2003) Noble and Webster used 34 taxidermy animals (1 mink, 8 carrion crows, 6 rats, 11 jackdaws, 8 rooks), metal stands and animal bones in order to project a gruesome image of heads spiked on rods on the wall.

Raptors Namibia places most of the blame on poisons, which the bateleur picks up from carcasses on farms placed next to protected nesting areas, but a decrease in the availability of carrion prey hasn't helped.

There are more herbivores and creatures that parasitise other animals, but the detritivores — the creatures that consume carrion, excrement and decomposing plants — seem to be on the way down, with, the scientists say, potential implications for key ecosystem processes such as decomposition, nutrient cycling and primary productivity.

Other works like «Dark Stuff» (below) are mind - boggling in their eclectic choice of materials, edging on almost grotesque — 189 mummified animals, consisting of 67 field mice, 5 adult rats, 42 juvenile rats, 44 garden shrews, 1 fox, 1 squirrel, 1 weasel, 13 carrion crows, 7 jackdaws, 1 blackbird, 1 sparrow, 1 robin, 1 toad, 1 gecko, 3 garden snail shells.

Conservationists believe there are three key sources of prey potentially attractive to bald eagles on the Channel Islands: seal or seal lion carrion, seabirds, and the island fox.

CREA deserves to to chopped up and deposited in a giant slow - cooker crock pot, because that is just what it deserves... because... it is simply a big fat, rotting, over-stuffed, over-hyped carcass of an over-paid bunch of self - back - patting, unrealistic, know - nothing pen - pushers arranged in a disheveled pile of under - cooked, under - experienced, overly - sure - of - itself, cocky bureaucratic pile of putrefying carrion that could not survive three months out in the trenches amongst those whom it directs from on high what to say / not say and do / not do.