Sentences with phrase «other small birds»

My Carpentry provides these free bird house plans to help you make a pentagon birdhouse that will not only attract wrens but most other small birds.

If your target is to attract wrens and other small birds and do not want to go with the traditional wood birdhouse designs this project will be perfect for you.

Make your birds feel at home with a quick and easy tutorial on how to set up a bird cage for parakeets, cockatiels, or other small birds.

Cockatiels, budgies, and other small birds can truly thrive in captivity, and they bond with their owners for life.

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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.

The bird pepper has the smaller leaf, and it is by the Indians better esteemed than the other.»

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.

Other Trinidad favorites are the small Bird and long Trinidad Bird peppers.

Puerto Rico has two hot sauces of note: one is called pique and is made with acidic Seville oranges and habaneros; the other is sofrito, which combines small piquins («bird peppers») with annatto seeds, cilantro, onions, garlic, and tomatoes.

They helped their children notice birds, insects, plants and other wonders of the natural world when they were small, and then continued this focus even when the children decided, for a few years, to go to the local primary school.

The competition encourages participants to reveal the Commonwealth's natural wonders, large and small: birds and other animals in their habitats, lush forests and fields, and people enjoying the outdoors.

Sparrows, doves, blackbirds and all sorts of other small and medium bird species will flock to this feeder.

The import of other artifacts is less obvious: a stuffed porcupine that sits on Freud's desk, beside a solitary pair of round - framed glasses; a wooden Egyptian funerary boat, mounted fore and aft by bird heads and carrying a small wrapped mummy attended by three seated women; a row of stone knives laid upon a table; and a bearded goat head made of clay.

Their small size may also have helped birds survive the mass extinction that wiped out all the other dinosaurs 65 million years ago, says Bhullar.

Only for a small bird called the Forbes» snipe could de-extinction potentially be a boon to other species.

And some other birds like the famous ruby throated hummingbird they also jump once they go to Cape Cod or sorry, to Cape Maine in New Jersey and then they jump and they arrive in the Yucatan Peninsula so there are many different flights especially for the small passerines and tiny birds.

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

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

The area is rich with animal skeletons, and they estimate there are at least 13 different species of dinosaur present based on teeth and other remains, plus birds, small mammals and some fish.

Also, since small islands seldom support rattlesnakes, coyotes or other predators of birds, they become home to large seabird colonies.

She saw that other wildlife researchers were tracking birds with small solar panels.

And they found that the hunted specimens» brains were actually five percent smaller, on average, than the brains of birds that died by other means.

The team believes that small body size might have been key to maintaining evolutionary potential in birds, which broke the lower body size limit of around 1 kilogram seen in other dinosaurs.

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.

All told, the researchers gathered 679 bats, 222 birds and 129 mice and other small mammals over several years to test for evidence of the Ebola virus.

The birds of prey typically hunt other birds or small mammals but they occasionally opt for larger prey, such as coyotes.

Joint research by Uppsala University, Stockholm University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) now shows that, in small passerines (perching birds) in the wild, vision is considerably faster than in any other vertebrates — and more than twice as fast as ours.

Hakawai melvillei was a small wading bird that lived about 19 million years ago during the Miocene epoch, around an ancient subtropical lake on the edge of a floodplain, with many other waterbirds, waterfowl, crocodilians and bats.

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.

So a team of researchers from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester started small, forgoing migratory birds and other large animals for the humble fruit fly.

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.

Lutz and her colleagues took blood samples from hundreds of East African birds, bats, and other small mammals and screened the blood for the parasites.

Extensive testing of malarial DNA found in birds, bats and other small mammals from five East African countries revealed that malaria has its roots in bird hosts.

They will also eat smaller birds, other bird's eggs and small animals like rabbits, reptiles, amphibians and crabs.

A PhD student at Trinity College Dublin and lead author of the study, Sean Kelly, has said that the small, colorful bird could be vulnerable to extinction, along with other undiscovered creatures.

There are two main theoretical models, one based on small magnetite particles that may reorient in an external magnetic field and the other based on the idea that upon photo excitation a certain type of molecules in the eye of a bird support a radical pair formed by two electrons which evolve under the joint action of the Zeeman interaction with the external magnetic field and the hyperfine interaction with the supporting molecule.

But here at home, a much smaller organism may be circling the globe time and time again without accolades: According to a new study, the itty bitty dragonfly Pantala flavescens could take longer flights than any other known insect, putting it in the ballpark of larger migratory animals like birds and whales.

Some of the birdstrike species are known to consume small mammals, other birds, and fish, so the 16S rRNA gene was targeted for mammal and fish and the 12S rRNA region was targeted for detection of bird species.

There weren't cows just wandering around, but there were plenty of African Buffalo, antelope, copious amounts of game birds, pigs, other smaller mammals, such as rats and porcupines.

As for smaller films, there are two, Lady Bird and Call Me by Your Name, that I liked, but clearly not as much as many other critics.

The PowerPoint contains hyperlinks to a video of the climbing of the world's tallest tree; an octopus squeezing through a very small hole; dolphins sleeping; the call of the blue whale and the lyrebird mimicking other birds and a chainsaw.

Not all 93.6 million cats, 77.5 million dogs, and other pets such as horses, small mammals, birds, reptiles, and fish get an equitable share of the $ 47 plus billion the American Pet Products Association says was spent on them in 2010.

The community center, which is open to the public on Fridays and Saturdays and available for scheduled visits on other days, allows visitors to learn about and interact with various small animals and birds.

Just like some dogs are prone to chasing cats or bird dogs are prone to chasing birds, some APBT's won't get along with smaller, prey - sized creatures or even other dogs.

The company, according to its online history, also made the decision to focus on dogs and cats — with some small - animal and bird products in the mix — leaving the care of other animals to the competition.

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However they do allow other small pets such as hamsters, rabbits, birds and other caged critters, as well as aquariums full of fish.

In the wild, cats eat many small meals consisting of rodents, birds, bugs, and other small creatures.

We are a progressive full service small animal hospital caring for dogs, cats, rabbits, birds, reptiles, primates, pocket pets, and other exotic animals.

They are great companions that love both to sit on a lap and chase birds or other small animals.