Sentences with phrase «other bird life»

The beautifully maintained, expansive lawns run down to the rivers edge providing guests with exciting estuary angling from the riverbank or the chance to view the resident guinea fowls and other bird life.

Other wildlife included seals, sea lions, dolphin, porpoise, bald eagle and various other bird life, even throughout the night we were woken by the sound of singing Humpback whales passing close by.

Relax on your balcony or garden patio and enjoy the ever - changing beauty of the lake with its boats, pelicans, swans and numerous other bird life.

Take a boat to the Ballestas Islands to view sea lion colonies, penguins, and other bird life.

This type of maintenance benefits waders in particular, as well as other birds living in wetlands.

Not exact matches

«Also, there are no birds, squirrels, insects or any other living creature indigenous to planet earth at the Masters.

However, when you consider that the Deep Horizon spill cost 42 Billion US to clean up and they only recovered 3 % of the oil while 250 million of birds, thousands of mammals, unknown millions of fish, and countless numbers of mammals, whales, turtles shellfish, and other marine life were killed.

By embracing both points, Keillor's humor reconciles us, even encourages us, to live with that tension, confident that if grace can come through the «Gospel Birds,» it can come through other mundane efforts as well.

I mean the burning passion of lived awareness that we occupy a precarious existence on this planet together with the soil and its flowers, the water and its fishes, the air and its birds, the fire and energy sources; that our fellow human beings are truly brothers and sisters with whom it is better always to make love - justice than war; and that gentleness lasts longer and touches more deeply than other kinds of power.

Millions upon millions of years old makes since when you have to explain how a fish, bird, dog, monkey, all other living species and humans are all so different now.

If we ask why birds on one isolated island have beaks different from those on others, the Darwinian answer is that they have adapted to the size and other features of edible seeds where they live.

Then man was created as well as new types of animals, birds and other living creatures.

Even the point about what is best for other creatures, which may seem very modern, is not without foundation in Hebrew Scriptures in such passages as the law against taking the hen - bird as well as the eggs from the nest (Deut 22:6), or this saying from Proverbs: «A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast» (12:10), where, be it noted, the quality that makes a man considerate of his working animals is not prudence or good business sense but «righteousness,» a point all the more significant when we remember that in the Hebrew Scriptures one of the marks of righteousness is not mere evenhandedness but active favor to the weak and deprived.

While there are no living birds with teeth, other fossilized birds such as Hesperornis also had teeth.

For though it may be beautiful to live like the birds of the air, it is not lawful, and may lead to the sorriest of consequences: either starvation if one has enough persistence, or dependence on the bounty of others.

animals do kill each other every day all day long, yup thats true... but they do it to live unlike us who creates parks in which to go so we can hunt birds that we have clipped the wings of so they can't fly away!

Moving forward, Perdue will design and implement an approach to baby chick nutrition that better supports its birds as they develop their immune, skeletal and other foundational systems that help keep them healthy later in life.

«Cage Free» - Similar to «Free Range» this means that the birds may not live in wire cases per say, but they most likely live in a large enclosure with thousands of other birds with very little space.

The result has seen an improvement in tree health and marine life, which has brought back the birds, frogs and other native animals helping maintain balance.

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NAE chicken ensures that antibiotics were never introduced through feed, water sources or any other means during the life of the bird.

There were views across the river to the woods on the other side as well as plenty of bird life to observe on the river itself.

All these changes affect plants, fish, birds and other wildlife that live along the Carquinez Strait and Delta sloughs.

Birds surrounding the area that are yet to migrate and other wildlife was left stunned as a healthy, loud engine burst into life.

And so, Stellaluna lived with the chickens that were to follow, and she was therefore named Stellaluna after the children's book about a fruit bat who is taken in by a family of birds, and comes to believe herself one (before eventually finding her way back to her family and all the other bats).

World Wetlands Day marks the anniversary of the Ramsar Convention 1971, which aims to conserve and sustainably use the world's wetlands so that the bird life and other species they support are not lost.

Some, like bats, are unfairly maligned; others are adored despite shocking behavior, such as Adélie penguins, whose sex lives were considered so depraved that, in 1915, London's Natural History Museum boldly marked a paper about the birds» mating behavior as «Not for Publication.»

The book looks at fish that live in subfreezing waters, ruminating monkeys, ridiculously poisonous newts, birds that see in the ultraviolet, mice that live on lava flows, cave fish, coelacanths, bush babies, humans, and some other marvels of evolution.

Spoonbills and other migrating birds may transport live aquatic invertebrates inside their guts.

In fact, the big killer diseases of history all came to us from microbes living in other species, overwhelmingly from other warm - blooded mammals and, to a lesser extent, from birds.

In northern Europe, some mosquitoes in the complex live above ground, and others flourish beneath it; some researchers believe that those above favor birds, while those underground prefer biting humans.

Bioacoustics expert Bill Evans of Texas A&M University in Galveston calls the discovery «interesting,» as it means that dolphins are among the few types of vertebrates — the others being birds and humans — capable of learning new vocalizations throughout their lives.

«No other birds are known to have a free - living population of blind [individuals],» says Tennyson.

A comparison of its features with those of other fossils indicates that it is closely related to rahonavis — a primitive bird that lived in Madagascar about...

«Even in birds, which are better - known than most other living beings, the age of new species discoveries is not over,» said Dr. Frank Rheindt from NUS.

Like pyrethroids, fipronil is far less toxic to birds and mammals than other insecticides, but can still kill small aquatic life.

In this episode, Liz Johnson and Felicity Arengo from the American Museum of Natural History take Scientific American podcast host Steve Mirsky for a walk in the park — Central Park — to talk about the spring bird migration and the role that Central Park and other green spaces plays in the lives of birds and other animals.

To see how bird family members interact with each other in stressful situations, researchers from Vetmeduni Vienna and the University of Gdansk, Poland, studied parent - offspring interactions in a long - lived seabird, the little auk (Alle alle).

We will hear from Johnson and Arengo about the park and green spaces in general and their roles in the lives of birds and other wildlife and we will talk to Marie Winn, a well - known nature writer we bumped into in the park.

Living in such a society requires that the birds recognize and remember others, and whether they are friend or foe — mental tasks that are thought to be linked to the evolution of significant cognitive skills.

It may have been found in the nick of time: the bird's habitat is threatened by deforestation and Ridgely and others have now launched a campaign to raise enough money to buy the land on which the bird lives.

Some animals are very good at leaving where they live and exploring other parts of the world — birds, for example, and rats.

«These tracks are evidence that we had sizeable, flying birds living alongside other kinds of dinosaurs on these polar, river floodplains, about 105 million years ago,» Martin says.

Achieving ecological objectives requires planning beyond minimum flows and indicator species to encompass seasonal floods and slack flows and a holistic look at the plants, fish, fungi, birds and other life inhabiting the river, its banks and its marshes.

However, in the other major avian branch (neognaths), which includes most species of living birds, it comes closer to the heel bone; that creates the impression it is a different structure, when it is actually the same.

Why don't other birds that live under similar conditions use tools?

But some E.U. countries are looking to ban those as well, which means the more vicious birds will have to learn to live with each other.

The results suggest that the last common ancestor of all modern birds — in other words, the species at the base of the evolutionary family tree that includes all living bird species — lived in West Gondwana, a landmass that included what are now fragments of South America and large portions of Antarctica, about 95 million years ago.

Great tits living next to each other may sing their songs at significantly different rates, more or less frequently, as compared to non-neighboring birds, according to a study published February 18, 2015 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Lysanne Snijders from Wageningen University, Netherlands and colleagues.

Other long - tailed tits and bushtits are temperate birds, but the pygmy bushtit lives only in the western part of the Indonesian island of Java, in tropical open forests and plantations above 1000 metres.