Sentences with phrase «rather than the bird»

In New Guinea, Wallace found peril rather than birds of paradise (Image: BlueGreen Pictures / SuperStock)

Reynolds and colleagues chose to focus on insect swarms, rather than bird flocks or fish shoals, because interactions between neighbouring individuals appear not to play a key role.

To investigate how signal traits vary in relation to the overall social environment, the authors of this study tested whether neighboring birds sharing a territory boundary, rather than birds just flying in the area, is related to similarity in dawn song traits between territorial wild great tits.

The cranes symbolize the lovers» hope for skies filled with natural beauty rather than birds of war — namely German warplanes.

The thing is, when this is the case, it is most often a problem on the owner's part rather than the bird's!

The cage skirt is for your benefit rather than the bird's.

Too much salt is bad for all of us including birds, so it is best to keep the salty snacks on your plate rather than your bird's.

Not exact matches

Despite all the changes in technology and the fact that they should be looking at end products rather than face time, managers still reward the early birds and consider late risers as slackers, regardless of actual work done.

As the nation's economy emerges from recession, many companies are adopting a more cautious bird - in - the - hand strategy - working to retain the customers they have rather than continually pursuing prospects.

There have been 11 versions of the game in between the two releases and three spin - offs, but Rovio is calling this one the «sequel,» referring to it as Angry Birds 2 rather than Angry Birds 13.

If you're a dividend growth investor who prefers a bit more of a bird in the hand (rather than two in the bush), this stock offers one of the biggest safe dividends out there.

The kind of people who swear that what the saw in the sky was an alien UFO, rather than something more realistic (flock of birds, planes, helicopters, falling star, kites, etc..)

20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse: 21 because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four - footed beasts, and creeping things.24 Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves: 25 for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.

1'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

What is offensive that Ms. Harris is so pained by a fictional Christmas character being represented as White that she would rather see said character portrayed in the form of a bird rather than a human being.

Charles Hartshorne has devoted much trained attention to bird song and argues that song requires «something like an aesthetic sense in the animal,» though it may be more a matter of aesthetic feeling rather than aesthetic thought (BS 2, 12).

If this was a product of a designer building all birds in a day rather than a product of evolution over the course of millions of years, why would they have those internal nasal structures with no external outlet for them?

I find this is not right as a friend mentioned many Bald Eagles have been killed by by the hands of humans to use Windmills for energy, they save them why cant they be used rather than murder a innocent bird souring in the freedom of the sky just saying theres got ta be another way, why do they have to kill them use the reserve the humans have killed from these windmills

In this case, we get something like e. e. cummings's famous couplet «I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing / Than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance» — or even, more memorably, Keats's complaint in «Lamia» that «cold philosophy» (Newton's optics) threatens to reduce the rainbow to «the dull catalogue of common things.»

I used thai bird chiles rather than habanero.

One of this year's Thanksgiving Trends is Take - apart Turkeys, birds that are cooked in pieces rather than roasting the whole bird at once.

While seasoning, pay special attention to the thicker sections of the bird rather than the skinny ankles and wings, which crisp easily since there's not much flesh in their way.

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.

To get the most out of your braise, use portions rather than a whole bird (it'll be quicker) and choose stock, broth, wine, tomato sauce — basically anything but water — for a boost of flavor.

(citation needed) Shaded Kona cultivation systems show greater biodiversity than full - sun systems, and those more distant from continuous forest compare rather poorly to undisturbed native forest in terms of habitat value for some bird species.

Sadly, rather than giving these birds more space and reducing their stress, many turkey production facilities will cut off the ends of turkeys» beaks and toes shortly after they have hatched, usually with a laser, and without any pain relief.

After all the birds fly upside down over stamford bridge because there's nothing worth shi ** ing on... Anyone think vardy is now regretting not sitting on the bench at Arsenal rather than embarrassing himself on the pitch with Leicester?

Fair play to the UTD fan for having an opinion, I think a lot of people miss the point with Wenger, I know that all football fans want success now, if you look at the teams Arsene has built this is perhaps his third, even forth, and it is still in the making, he knows that they are not yet what they will be and that perhaps we will not get success immediately but if we are patient success will come, I am a realist and know that mortgaging your clubs future for immediate success is wrong and that sooner rather than later these birds will come home to roost.

Benjamin Franklin was so enamored with the wild turkey that he thought it would be a far better choice as America's national bird rather than the bald eagle.

I had known that she could sign BIRD when looking at a picture of a bird in a book, but this was the first time that she really initiated a sign to indicate an interest in the world around her rather than to express a nBIRD when looking at a picture of a bird in a book, but this was the first time that she really initiated a sign to indicate an interest in the world around her rather than to express a nbird in a book, but this was the first time that she really initiated a sign to indicate an interest in the world around her rather than to express a need.

The last few times I tried nursing he regarded them as a curiosity — something to grab and poke rather than baby - bird dive - bomb at, like all those months before.

Actual «white noise» is the best rather than ocean waves or sounds of trains, birds, etc..

«They prefer to sell their birds to marketers rather than wait for government's compensation that will never come.

A study of birds around Chernobyl suggests that nuclear fallout, rather than stress and deteriorating living conditions, may be responsible for human birth defects in the region.

Nanostructures that iridesce may often just be a way birds or butterflies can create an unusual color rather than a way to produce iridescence for its own sake.

If another bird could potentially hear the process of hiding the food, they chose quieter material in which to dig — sand rather than pebbles.

When Komdeur moved the breeding birds from poor to rich habitats, they began to have females rather than males, and vice versa.

Then he looks for families that lay the greatest number of eggs, rather than individual birds that perform well.

They are designed to give information on the lifestyle of birds and to develop birdwatching skills, rather than dealing with species - by - species identification.

Around 75 per cent of tinamou eggs wind up as something's lunch, a rather high loss even for a tropical bird, which often lose more than half their offspring.

The coastal California gnatcatcher's status as a distinct subspecies makes it eligible for federal protection to keep the bird's shrub - land as habitat rather than a real estate development.

«It's interesting that the birds» foraging behavior was not affected under any of the playback conditions, which suggests that the behavioral effects were due to the call playbacks being masked by noise, rather than the noise being simply aversive.»

Some pointed out that the ascending process in most birds was a projection of the neighbouring heel bone, rather than the anklebone.

When birds are migrating south in the fall, these pile - ups would happen on the north side of the lakes rather than the south.

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

Angry Birds is actually one of the first games that was optimized for touch - screen devices, and mobile touch - screen devices in particular, rather than being derived from games that are really holdovers from PCs or the Web.

«By sensing gusts and disturbances in air flow through their feathers, birds are able to fly gracefully rather than bouncing around in turbulent air,» he said.

Stuart Bearhop, an animal ecologist at the University of Exeter, UK, thinks birds that dine may simply be adapted to be opportunistic, rather than being an example of the ancient foraging relationship.

Overwhelmingly, zoos are keeping pretty birds rather than endangered ones.

PTEROSAURS may have been furry rather than feathery, but perhaps they weren't so very different from birds in other respects.