Sentences with phrase «small as birds»

The chips can be used in animals as small as birds and as large as horses.

Not exact matches

Assessing the size is also difficult: even though the perspective might be a factor here, the object seems to be smaller than the F - 16s, but probably much larger than a micro-drone as the bird - sized Perdix drones, 103 of those, launched from three F / A -18 F Super Hornets, took part in one of the world's largest micro-drone swarms over the skies of Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California on Oct. 25, 2016.

Planet Labs, for instance, makes smaller satellites than Skybox, so while it can send more «birds» into space, its imagery will never be as good.

By link, we mean a necessary stage of transition between classes such as reptiles and birds, or between smaller groups.

In some museum displays, he said, the birds - descended - from - dinosaurs evolutionary theory has been portrayed as a largely accepted fact, with an asterisk pointing out in small type that «some scientists disagree.»

I did not think of myself as God nor did I think the bird thought I was «god», but I KNEW that God had created both the bird and me and I was grateful to be able to help the smaller creature.

Even though he was as free as a bird on his Asian trip, all clues indicate he was determined to return to his small hermitage back home.

Like folk songs their wings wheel and hover, careless As falcons, I am their anxious scribe, listening myself into their coarse cries, storing the separate Notes in small black spaces at the back of my skull, God, if I were a bird I think I would stop worrying!

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.

Also sometimes known as Piri Piri or Pili Pili, the African Bird's Eye is a small chile, growing to only about 1 inch, but they pack a lot of punch.

Peking duck is often served at Chinese weddings as a symbol of fidelity; the small birds mate for life.

«We will be working together to deliver environmental water to smaller local wetland and floodplain sites to improve habitat and provide refuges for endangered and threatened native bird and fish species such as the Regent Parrot and the Murray Hardyhead,» Mr Reilly said.

Some producers interpret «access to the outside» as a small pop - door (chicken door) on an end - wall of a 100 ft. long shed filled with un-caged birds moving about freely on a litter - covered floor.

I prepare the meat as follows: Uncooked veal, mutton, lamb, pork, or beef, in three - quarter inch squares; chicken as for fricassee, but making three pieces of the breast, cross cut, two of each thigh, and two of each leg, for chickens in India are used when much smaller than English birds.

Cili padi are apparently the same as cabe rawit, the small bird chiles, while dried red chiles are cili kering.

But any game bird, chicken or a small turkey would work as well.

This means small growers with 500 broiler chickens spread across 20 hectares will be treated the same as farms with 500,000 birds in sheds.

While smaller scale producers might stick to 1,500 birds per hectare as the recommended maximum, large scale producers are keeping their hens at much higher densities to cash in on the growing market for free range products.

«Any game bird, chicken or a small turkey would work as well.

Down at Cape Canaveral small birds with feathers get almost as much attention as the moon rockets

«Bird and Little Bird is a one mama small business specializing in handmade stuffed toys crafted from natural materials such as linen, wool, cotton and wood.

Despite having the characteristics of a Magpie, I'm quite a small bird as I'm part chaffinch and part blackbird.

Both our Mass Audubon leader and our in - country guide were excellent at taking care of the small stuff... They not only helped us see birds, animals, and plants but were attentive to our personal needs, as well.

This small book with its simple illustrations of birds and animals, sunshine and snowflakes, will capture your little ones» interest as you read them one delightful haiku after another.

-LSB-...] Once the eggs were dry, I assembled the sensory bin, twisting small lengths of pipe cleaner into curls as inspired by Powerful Mothering's bird - themed Pincer and Fine Motor Practice.

In 2011, four brothers — all under the age of 12 — started listing as many bird species as they could in a small notebook, creating the unofficial town birding club and a lifelong connection to the birds they observed.

Over time, as much as 70 percent of bird species disappeared from the smallest fragments.

Environmental degradation could have made the birds» diet poorer, or warmer temperatures could have given an edge to birds with smaller body sizes, as they are better able to cool off.

Warmer winters, wetter and earlier springs (which expand the time during which ticks can pick up the disease), increased humidity, and greener environments can all contribute to the increased incidence of ticks and the growing populations of hosts, including large mammals like white - tailed deer; smaller ones such as white - footed mice, the principal carrier of Lyme disease; and many species of birds.

Scientists have been using an ancient Greek fable written by Aesop as inspiration to test whether birds and small children understand cause and effect relationships.

Using feather length as a proxy for nutritional status in birds, the researchers were able to rule out the possibility that smaller birds were less well nourished than their ancestors.

Unlike many bird species that are now extinct on the Earth's small islands, the Eastern Bluebird and the Hispaniolan Crossbill disappeared long before the first people arrived, uncoupling their extinction from human actions, such as the introduction of new predators and habitat loss for agricultural use.

If an island has lots of birds, coconut crabs will find it hard to colonise, as they start off small and vulnerable.

The catastrophe left tangled masses of vegetation that could serve as nesting sites or hiding places for small mammals, reptiles, and birds.

In birds, variation in life - span extends from parrots such as the Sulphur - crested cockatoo that can become more than 100 years old, to the small Allen's hummingbird with a maximum life - span of only 4 years, a 25 fold difference.

A new study from The Auk: Ornithological Advances explores how Poland's cavity - nesting Marsh Tits deal with predator attacks and finds that while tactics such as small entrances and solid walls do help, adaptations like this can only take the birds so far.

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But when researchers injected Anas platyrhynchos ducklings at 4, 9, or 14 weeks old with red blood cells from sheep to simulate a parasitic infection, the birds — as adults — explored new items in their environment and approached small orange toys, a color they typically avoid because they seem to associate it with toxic food.

Some tarantulas succeed in occasionally capturing small birds, small mammals such as mice, and even small fish, but their ordinary prey consists of insects such as crickets (for ground dwellers) and moths (for arboreal species).

Small, short - beaked birds such as house finches and chickadees were more easily spooked.

However, a new study has confirmed that this unique characteristic can also be seen among smaller birds such as the Eurasian siskin, a bird which is able to form bonds that last for a number of years as well as travel long distances in the company of these birds.

Until now, some studies had confirmed a marked sociability in small birds such as the pine siskin (Carduelis pinus) and the common redpoll (Acanthis flammea).

Crows appeared to use magpies as Cheetos scouts, waiting for the smaller birds to explore the food, then landing and shooing the magpies off their prize.

Large waterfowl were the top suspects, as plane engines are designed to withstand strikes from smaller birds.

Banding, in which small metal rings are attached to a bird's leg to allow identification when the bird is caught later on, often has a success rate as low as 2 percent.

We found that corvid birds performed as well as great apes, despite having much smaller brains,» says Can Kabadayi, doctoral student in Cognitive Science.

He adds that «birds as we know them evolved over millions of years, accumulating small shifts in shape and function of the skeleton.

They found that frugivores which are not targeted by hunters — such as small birds, bats and marsupials — are only able to disperse small seeds, which are associated with small trees.

He and colleagues have for years looked at the differences between big - brained birds, such as crows and parrots, and those with smaller brains, such as chickens and quails.

The DNA sequences of insects and seeds — and for large predatory birds, prey such as small mammals or lizards — reveal the food that attracts the birds to the airport in the first place.