Sentences with phrase «passengers about birds»

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So in memory of the last passenger pigeon, «I'm hoping [the report] touches a chord with the public about why birds are important,» Marra says.

How about: 1) Heath Hens back and all birds genetically treatable; 2) Passenger Pigeons back; 3) Great Auks back; 4) Black - footed Ferrets disease - free; 5) Northern White Rhinos back; 6) Genetic - rescue tools in wide and responsible use; 7) Asian elephants liberated from lethal herpes; 8) Woolly Mammoths back; 9) Islands liberated from invasive rodents; 10) Lyme disease rare; 11) Hawaiian birds liberated from malaria; 12) A debate tool in use by the general public to work through controversy about new technologies.

Applying all of this to the passenger pigeon is challenging many widely accepted notions about the bird.

The first film Gerwig has solitarily written and directed (this is not, as many have claimed, her inaugural turn behind the camera; she shares a directorial credit with Joe Swanberg on 2008's Nights And Weekends), Lady Bird arranges an even better entrance for its own irresistible heroine: Squabbling with her combative, witheringly disapproving mother (Laurie Metcalf, granted her best role in ages) while driving around to look at colleges, Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) decides she's had just about enough conversation, opens her passenger - side car door, and rolls out.

Good ol' fiction: The River at Night by Erica Ferencik The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin Pictures of You by Caroline Leavitt A Paris Apartment by Michelle Gable Before I Go by Colleen Oakley Caravans: A Novel of Afghanistan by James Michener We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard Since She Went Away by David Bell Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese The Decent Proposal by Kemper Donovan The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison Happy Family by Tracy Barone Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang Bird in Hand by Christina Baker Kline The Weight of Him by Ethel Rohan Eleven Hours by Pamela Erens Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff Cage of Stars by Jacquelyn Mitchard Saving Grace by Jane Green After You by Jojo Moyes Britt - Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell The Passenger by Lisa Lutz The Girls by Emma Cline Cruel Beautiful World by Caroline Leavitt The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware The Marriage Lie by Kimberly Belle Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris California by Edan Lepucki Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak Christmas in London by Anita Hughes

A perfect example is this beautiful bird set up to welcome passengers as we entered the customs and immigration halls — through which we passed in about 30 seconds.

For example, none of us today miss the passenger pigeon, even though a few of us have read about the enormous flocks of those birds that once filled the sky.

And whether scientists are able to bring passenger pigeons back or not, the birds may still offer lessons about keeping other species from following it into oblivion.

That's because the naturalists who had the opportunity to observe passenger pigeons left a lot of open questions about the natural history of the birds.