Sentences with phrase «other bird because»

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I am not ashamed because there are all these little mustards seeds scattered across our broken, shameful world, some of them just now swelling and splitting underneath the dark soil; others breaking through the surface with a garish flash of green; others meandering toward the sun, desperate for light or rain or some sort of trellis; others growing slow and steady into tall shade tress with limbs like arms wide open to the world, welcoming the birds of the air to nest in their branches.

It's true, birds, squirrels and and other animals rely on seeds for survival during harsh winters but that is because they are...

While other home cooks are scrambling to keep their bird warm, scraping up pan drippings, boiling giblets, thickening, tasting, tweaking... You'll be calm because you have this 10 - minute Instant Pot gravy!

Because of its size, it's best suited for chicken and duck eggs but has various settings that you can use with other kinds of birds.

He said bees are beneficial because they pollinate flowers, citrus crops and vegetables, and they serve as food sources for other insects, birds and fish.

These birds are considered brood parasites because they lay eggs into the nests of other birds and throw out the host's eggs to ensure there is no competition for food from the adoptive parents.

Unlike other birds, most of which avoid clouds because of their turbulence, frigatebirds seem to seek them out to ride on the strong updrafts under cumulus clouds in the open ocean to gain altitude.

And they appear to save energy not because it takes less effort to flap, as theory predicted, but because lift from the wakes of other birds allows them to flap less often.

«Our hypothesis is, frankly, hard to believe, even by us, if for no other reason because we know of no mechanism to explain how cicada emergences could be driving a cycle in the birds that is so long — 13 or 17 years,» Koenig says.

«In other words, there may be fewer bird observations in those years because the birds are more difficult to detect.»

One of the management activities that the park is really focusing on is especially on these woodlands, of restoring the forest floor and make sure that leaves remain, not raking them up and when branches fall, letting them remain in place so that they could decompose, this again because it's going to restore the whole forest system and also it's good foraging habitat for all these wild birds we are seeing here, kicking through the underbrush and kicking through the leaves looking for worms and other insects and other invertebrates.

Johnson: One of the really nice things about Central Park is even though you do get warbler neck from veering up for some reason, allow the birds come down low so that you can see a whole array of warblers without even getting warbler neck, because they all stay low down in some of these lower shrubs, and the other fun thing is that the birds who do nest here are pretty tolerant of people.

Salt marsh mosquitoes, on the other hand, pose a greater risk of disease transmission, says Andreadis, because they feed on birds about a third of the time and on mammals more than half the time.

That's because bird genomes, including the eight other (all extinct) moa species, have similar structures.

The bay is crucial to knots and other shorebirds because its 600 square kilometers of mud and sand are filled with enough clams and mussels for the birds to feast on for months, Morrison says.

«These data suggests that the reason bee - to - bird evolutionary transitions are often accompanied by a floral shift to classic «bird» trait complexes is because bees have a particularly difficult time combining red with other sensory traits, including nectar rewards,» he says.

Because the brant is smaller than the other two birds that nest in the area — snow geese and cackling geese — it is at a disadvantage when competing for habitat and food.

Both studies, one published online today by Nature, the other by Science, used Thailand as the presumptive ground zero, in part because current pandemic worries focus on H5N1, the bird flu strain haunting Southeast Asia (ScienceNOW, 16 June).

Because of their fragility and size, bird bones have been rare or absent at most other eastern African fossil assemblages that included early hominids.

He reasoned that because a bird takes off faster and at a steeper angle when startled, these different wing mechanics might produce a unique sound that other birds recognize as distress.

«The other birds could not diversify because there weren't many resources left for them.»

Poachers, for instance, lace carcasses with poison to kill vultures and other birds, but only because scavenging flocks can alert antipoaching authorities to their presence.

Because of that geographical isolation, the pygmy bushtit was thought to be the only bird within its Psaltria genus and only distantly related to other tits.

Birds share their nests with a rich community of other inhabitants like parasites and mainly invertebrates, such as insects, that are attracted to the nest because of the stable climatic conditions for their larvae as well as the rich supply of food.

The three other populations that the researchers studied are also losing genetic variation — and they didn't have much to begin with, because each was founded by a small number of Kapiti birds, the scientists report online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

The accusation that Capua and others set off a human epidemic made no sense, she said, because one mild flu case does not constitute an epidemic; moreover, the avian virus she allegedly spread was a different strain than the one that killed the birds in Italy.

The genomes show that the bird parasites were widespread because they infected different bird groups that occurred in each of the world's major tropical regions and would have been isolated from each other at the time.

Our feline friends are only interested in one thing: meat (except for saving up the energy to catch it by napping, or a round of restorative petting) This is not just because inside every domestic tabby lurks a killer just waiting to catch a bird or torture a mouse, it is also because cats lack the ability to taste sweetness, unlike every other mammal examined to date.

We decided to repeat the study with a larger data set and a better understanding of bird biology because other palaeontologists were starting to use the original results in Science in order to predict the incubation behaviour of other dinosaur species.

«I remember saying to a student, «I don't know what this bird does, but it does something different from any other corvid on Earth because its bill is so weird,»» said McGowan, project manager for distance learning in bird biology at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Because other studies have shown that structures such as insect wings and bird muscles have disappeared and later re-evolved, Norton and colleagues wanted to find out whether the same held true for sexuality.

Birds and winged mammals, on the other hand, can escape many hazards because they can fly.

Yet he cautions that the «conclusions of the paper are overstated» because the study does not prove that prehistoric lice were actually infesting the direct ancestors of today's bird and mammal species rather than other animals that may have led to evolutionary dead ends.

Species characterized by strong single peaks in vocal activity already tended to reach those peaks later than other species, perhaps because birds with tightly constrained timing are less able to adapt to changing climatic conditions.

There is usable DNA because there are more stuffed Passenger Pigeons resting in museum drawers and private collections than any other extinct bird.

Not so for the blue - capped cordon - bleu, apparently, because the dances varied more from bird to bird than from one sex to the other.

If you want to build a great back and massive arms, chin - ups should be at the core of your training because no other exercise can enable you to kill these two birds with one stone on such an efficient way.

because it was meant for BIRDS and it's a warning sign for all other mammals to not consume it.

You can't next really like any member of his group of anger management classmates or other birds like Bomb (Danny McBride), Chuck (Josh Gad), or Terence (Sean Penn) because they are characters with even less of a story than Red.

Both Lady Bird and Marion have infinite capacity to wound each other, yes, but that's because of how deeply connected, and at times frighteningly similar, they are.

She leaves home like Lady Bird does but she's really doing it because she has no other choice.

Well people read our reviews because they want to buy them to read with, other websites do a much better job then us talking about specs and showing all this other stuff like angry birds.

Cat behaviourists say indoor cats can become excited by seeing birds and other cats outdoors but because they are confined, may lead to venting their aggression on their owners instead.

Likewise, when I hear owls in the night, I know they live because other creatures died — not just birds.

Finally, because they have been reinforced by their environment (i.e., chasing squirrels, barking at passersby, etc.) it is hard to get their attention, because they have been getting better and better at giving their attention to things that really matter to them (i.e., birds, poop, other dogs, etc.) but have little or nothing to do with you.

Because we are located next to 4 acres of federally protected wetland, visitors will often see deer, wild birds, geese, and other wildlife while at our clinic.

Because pet birds are naturally very sensitive creatures, they tend to not be able to deal with stress as easily as other types of pets such as cats and dogs.

Many dogs eat dirt just because it tastes good or they find food droppings from other animals or birds in it.

Because like other animals, birds use their claws to scratch and relieve itches all over their bodies.

Because Cavaliers are spaniels with a strong sporting instinct, they should be watched closely around birds and other small animals as well.