Sentences with phrase «other than a bird»

The Great Barrier Reef receives nutrients from the rivers that flow out to the oceans and the keepers of the rainforests continued survival are none other than the birds and animals that inhabit the dark forest.

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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.

With peace, the land grab is expected to intensify, straining even further Colombia's delicate environment, one of the world's most biodiverse, with more bird species than any other country.

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

I kind of beat my chest for reasons other than what Larry Bird did, or the Patriots do.

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.

Even more so than the areas we visited in Panama, Finca Esperanza Verde and other shade coffee farms are critical to birds and other wildlife in Nicaragua.

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.

I don't really have a reason why or why not other than the fact that I prefer my stuffing to be baked outside the bird so it gets nice and crunchy on top.

Then burn the lower end with a little spit for roasting birds, and with other spits each bigger than the last, and the biggest last of all so that you make your hole tapering.

To date, the Bird - a-thon webpage has received 3,575 views, and more than 36 articles appeared in newspapers or other media across the state.

had never considered weaning at 16 months, or even cutting back on nursing, with my others, it felt as if I was going to have to «force» T - Bird into accepting less than she needed and less then my parenting principles supported.

We protect more than 37,500 acres of land throughout the state working to save birds and other wildlife and making nature accessible to all through our system of 58 wildlife sanctuaries, 20 of them with staffed nature centers.

For more than three decades, thousands of birding team members and other Bird - a-thon supporters have raised more than $ 2 million ($ 215,000 last year alone) for Mass Audubon, Massachusetts» largest nature conservation nonprofit.

Bird - a-thon is Mass Audubon's biggest yearly fundraiser, thanks to team members and other supporters who garner thousands of dollars in pledges, and organizers are hoping to surpass the event's largest single - year total of more than $ 200,000.

For more than 40 years, the boardwalk has enabled visitors to enjoy the property's expansive wetland habitat and observe birds and other wildlife it supports.

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.

During more than 100 tests, the birds moved to each other's left hand side in 84 per cent of cases, and zero crashes were observed.

During more than 100 tests, the birds moved to each other's left side in 84 per cent of cases, and never crashed.

In other words, we know nothing about more than 99 per cent of the birds that have ever existed.

Night owls are also more central in their own networks and — distinctively more than early birds — stick to their kind and interact with others who stay up late.

Other factors may also be important in birds, which show a greater difference in brain size than bats.

But in species where males have a greater role in rearing young than females — such as seahorses and certain frogs and birds — it's the females that are more likely to compete violently with each other.

Researchers have been trying to figure out why some bird species are better imitators than others.

However, in the evolution from dinosaurs to birds, it lost its lower end, and no longer connects to the ankle, being shorter than the other bone in the lower leg, the tibia.

Wild birds that are more clever than others at foraging for food have different levels of a neurotransmitter receptor that has been linked with intelligence in humans, according to a study led by McGill University researchers.

Poinar suggested in the journal American Entomologist that the origins of this deadly disease, which today can infect animals ranging from humans and other mammals to birds and reptiles, may have begun in an insect such as the biting midge more than 100 million years ago.

The problem drove bald eagles, our national symbol, not to mention peregrine falcons and other bird populations, to the brink of extinction, with populations plummeting more than 80 percent.

More than 500 footprints of ancient horses, rhinos, birds and other animals dotted the area around the hominid tracks.

«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 general, the group's lyrics are distinctly naturalist — painting pictures of wildlife and untouched ecosystems — but birds tend to appear in these narratives more often than other animals.

They found that the birds had little patience for rebelliousness, even in groups other than their own.

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

Other birds, such as the American coot (Fulica Americana), the pied - billed grebe (Podilymbus podiceps), and the belted kingfishers (Megaceryle alcyon), showed up in more northerly locations than ornithologists expect in a normal year.

It is even less diverse than other endangered mammals, such as the cheetah or Tasmanian devil, or birds, like the crested ibis or osprey.

The feather shares characteristics with the plumage that helps modern birds fly, such as longer barbs on one side of the feather's shaft than the other.

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.

[They are] fighting against bigger odds than any other bird, and fighting always with the most gallant pluck.»

Ecologist Thomas Smith has been gathering the feather samples for more than 2 decades; when other researchers band birds, they pull a tail feather and mail it to Smith.

Indeed, expanding the survey to include the bats» compatriots of the skies: woodpeckers, egrets, hummingbirds, and other birds, showed that the genome dynamcis of the two flying mammal species was more like that of the birds than the land - bound mammals.

Elsewhere, the study suggests that certain prehistoric creatures other than bats and birds may have attempted to evolve flight.

An earlier study by the same researchers found that Anna's hummingbirds (Calypte anna) accelerated more slowly and had other performance falloffs at altitudes higher than the birds» home range.

Now, more than a decade later, Buechley and Şekercioğlu have examined factors affecting the extinction risk of more than 100 bird species, including 22 species of vultures, which eat carrion exclusively, and other scavenging birds that have broader diets.

What is more, birds with no experience stealing from hidden reserves belonging to other birds moved their food supply significantly less often than did thieving birds, regardless of whether they were watched.

«We don't even have a proper name for these conservation superstars, other than hunter / bird watchers.»

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.

A survey suggests that 210 bird species are more threatened than we knew and it could be true of other animals, too

Pterosaurs may have been furry rather than feathery, but they may not have been so very different from birds in other respects.

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.