Sentences with phrase «other birds using»

Once a male has a good territory he signals his ownership to other birds using song.

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Companies can use «statistical sampling and other measures to determine who is likely to be the median employee and base a calculation off of that,» said Mike Stevens, a partner in the compensation group at law firm Alston & Bird.

Jesus used the same teaching method, for example look at the birds of the air or See how the flowers of the field grow, there are many other examples.

What is the evidence that these other uses do not occur among birds?

The African Bird's Eye is commonly used in soups, stews, hot sauces and chicken dishes, but the flavor is less interesting than other popular peppers.

Water entitlements are used by environmental water managers to improve water quality, increase native fish and bird populations and promote the growth of native vegetation, among other benefits.

Nonetheless, it was clear that birds and other fauna used coffee growing areas that were integrated with or close to native vegetation.

The Sun - Herald understands other chicken producers are willing to drop the use of the term rather than go to court, even though they say barn - kept birds can move as much as 80 metres a day.

Other organic certifications allow lights to be used for up to 16 hours per day; while RSPCA certifications allow 20 hours; and factory farms may subject birds to up to 23 hours of artificial light per day.

Other coffee certifications have various restrictions on pesticide use, but only organic (and Smithsonian Bird - Friendly, for which organic certification is a prerequisite) prohibits most of them.

Allegro plans to utilize other Chiapas farms in the blend, as well as the famous Colombia El Roble (Mesa de los Santos), an origin we first reviewed here, and which has also been used by Birds & Beans in their Chestnut - sided Warbler variety.

The club will not, it claims, prevent other legitimate organisations from using the Liver bird logo.

Citizen cientists use their eyes, ears and smartphones to protect birds, frogs and other wildlife - Medill Reports Chicago - October 21, 2016 Citizen science recruiters seeking new volunteers shared the impact of ongoing projects at The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum's inaugural citizen science fair on Saturday.

Organic farming practices ensure no chemicals or pesticides are used in the production of most Equal Exchange products — which protects the farmers, the surrounding environment, birds and other wildlife, as well as the people who enjoy these products.

The new award is named for Mass Audubon's founders, Boston cousins Harriet Hemenway and Minna Hall, who in 1896 began a campaign to stop the commercial killing of egrets and other birds whose feathers were used to adorn fashionable hats of the era.

Using specially created cartoons, which show two characters («Timmy the Turtle» and «Billy the Bird»), interacting in various ways, the project sets out to measure (using an Implicit Attitude Test (IAT) as well as economic games), how children aged from four to fourteen perceive others» shaUsing specially created cartoons, which show two characters («Timmy the Turtle» and «Billy the Bird»), interacting in various ways, the project sets out to measure (using an Implicit Attitude Test (IAT) as well as economic games), how children aged from four to fourteen perceive others» shausing an Implicit Attitude Test (IAT) as well as economic games), how children aged from four to fourteen perceive others» sharing.

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.

Ahead of World Curlew Day tomorrow, BASC is urging members and others who shoot to record sightings of the bird in a bid to compile a nationwide picture which could be used to plan how to halt and potentially reverse the decline.

Her remarks come the morning after an email to supporters from Jeremy Bird, OfA's organizing director, that explained a majority of volunteers on the campaign chose to do so from a field office, while «many» used Dashboard or other online tools instead.

Migratory birds, on the other hand, can traverse entire hemispheres and end up just a couple miles from where they bred last year, using their senses alone.

Whether you use them for viewing nature, bird watching, hunting, stargazing, or other outdoor adventures that let you see the world up close, the best binoculars for the money allow for stunning views.

And when placed in a large, inverted funnel used to study birds» migratory orientations, the neonic - fed birds tried to fly in directions other than north.

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.

While the bird's surgery may be used to help other arthritic cranes, younger, healthy captive birds need preventive care.

Langham's use of bird droppings in the eyes was continued into the eighteenth century by, among others, Sir William Read, oculist to Queen Anne, whose treatment involved «the juice of goose dung or the white part of hen's dung».

In a recent study, Buchy showed that Eurasian tree sparrows, a species commonly used in merit releases, can harbor H5N1 and transmit it to other birds.

The researchers ruled out other orientation cues and discovered the birds were using a sun compass, they report in the 12 January issue of Science.

Using taxidermy data, biologists determined that gun - killed birds have smaller brains than birds that died in other ways.

Steve: Once we got deep enough into the park to get away from most of the traffic noise, we talked about how birds use the park and other green spaces.

In the introduction, Bill Oddie talks about his schooldays of birdwatching and the lack of field guides, let alone books which were suitable for children covering other aspects of ornithology, he used to «just look up and wonder» at migrating birds.

Although there's little that scientists and wildlife managers working in Gorongosa can do to eliminate the threats that any one bird might face outside the protections of the park, the information they gather can be used to inform international agreements around the availability of toxins and other hazards.

In other cases, a feather will produce more hooks that lock the barbs into straight rows, creating the flat surface that birds use to fly.

Spiders don't often resemble birds, but pelican spiders — which use beaklike mouthparts to spear other arachnids — are a notable exception.

«We know that other animals use polarisation patterns in the sky, and we have at least some idea how they do it: bees have specially - adapted photoreceptors in their eyes, and birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles all have cone cell structures in their eyes which may help them to detect polarisation,» says Dr Richard Holland of Queen's University Belfast, co-author of the study.

Using X-ray crystallography, performed at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, Cusack and colleagues were able to determine the atomic structure of the whole polymerase from two strains of influenza: influenza B, one of the strains that cause seasonal flu in humans, but which evolves slowly and therefore isn't considered a pandemic threat; and the strain of influenza A — the fast - evolving strain that affects humans, birds and other animals and can cause pandemics — that infects bats.

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

Other researchers with the same goal are promoting the targeted use of more conventional games and hobbies — for instance, playing Scrabble or bird - watching.

Within Passerea, the TENT strongly confirmed the monophyly of two large closely related clades that we refer to as core landbirds (Telluraves) and core waterbirds (Aequornithia)(8, 16, 17, 27, 36, 59); we use the term «core» instead of «higher» to prevent interpretation that these groups are more advanced or more recently evolved than other birds.

The early risers used that time to mate with other birds not in their social pair.

To meet increasing consumer demand for heritage - breed turkeys to be the centerpiece of holiday and other meals, researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences are studying methods producers can use to raise the historical birds.

By mapping the neural processes involved as birds learn mating songs, scientists hope to someday use that knowledge to target specific genes disrupting speech in patients with autism or other neurodevelopmental conditions.

«When combined with other threats, such as land use, climate change, cats, and buildings, it's no wonder we're seeing such strong declines in so many bird species across the United States.»

However, there was not a strong multicollinearity between velocity and our other predictor variables (tolerance values for velocity: amphibians = 0.51, mammals = 0.49, birds = 0.52, values differ due to the use of different predictor variable subsets).

Besides these bats (and it's not known whether other species of bat can do this, too), researchers have found that certain insects, birds, reptiles, and amphibians can navigate using polarized light.

For decades, scientists have known that migratory birds use Earth's geomagnetic field — along with light, stars, and other cues — to guide them on remarkably long journeys.

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).

Researchers compiled this tree over 5 years, using genetic data already in public databases and other information to estimate how the known 9993 bird species are related to one another.

Now the challenge is to get other bird - brain researchers to use the new vocabulary.

It appears that to counter gravity we will have to continue doing it the hard way and use the other forces at our disposal, namely, the electromagnetic forces that provide the pressure on a bird's wing and on the soles of our feet.»

Avian flu (also «bird flu», «avian influenza», «bird influenza»), means «flu from viruses adapted to birds», but is sometimes mistakenly used to refer to both other flu subsets (such as H5N1 flu) or the viruses that cause them (such as H5N1).