Sentences with phrase «small birds from»

It did lack that distinctive smokey flavor but it was still delicious and I think will be my go to method for roasting smaller birds from now on.

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.

The birds look out at me, at the man holding his iPhone to the wall so a distant friend can pray into its mortar, at the Israeli soldiers completing their training and swearing to die for their country before this last remnant of the second Temple, at the masses of praying men and women — the women in a smaller area, separated from the men and further from the holiest part of the Wall.

At the Wailing Wall, small birds have taken up residence in a very resilient plant that grows from its ancient bricks.

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.

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.»

While the Government has retained thresholds that enable an exemption from the requirement for development consent — for those farms with less than 1000 birds or 200 pigs or 20 sows — the introduction of a 500m setback from neighbouring dwellings or environmentally sensitive areas that triggers a Development Application is a major barrier for pastured pig and poultry farming on small acreages.

I usually manage a small punnet from my mother's blackcurrants, but the birds got them all this year.

Set out a small bowl for the neck and giblets you might pull from the bird's cavity if they're in there.

It prevents animals from eating the chiles, so that they can be consumed by fruit - eating birds who specialize in red fruits with small seeds.

Whole Foods is fine and all, but Rick's find of the century was the roasted birds from a small Latin restaurant in Spanish Harlem.

«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.

Julie makes small sculptures inspired by birds, nature and life, handmade from wood, textiles and lovely things.

I work from my home in a small market town in Somerset, tucked away in an upstairs room that overlooks our garden, where I can look out the window and hear the birds singing all day.

Katherine Stevens has been writing since 2000, ranging from her first published piece about small birds in «Companion Parrot Magazine,» to her more recent mothering articles in local parenting zines.

The 6x magnification is great for watching birds and everything else in nature, and the product will not slip from small hands while in use.

He practiced dentistry in a small town and took frequent and prolonged vacations studying birds, from the Arctic Circle to Antarctica.

Among the questions that this study raises are whether the surprisingly large number of neurons in bird brains comes at a correspondingly large energetic cost, and whether the small neurons in bird brains are a response to selection for small body size due to flight, or possibly the ancestral way of adding neurons to the brain — from which mammals, not birds, may have diverged.

That is one of the surprising results of the first study to systematically measure the number of neurons in the brains of more than two dozen species of birds ranging in size from the tiny zebra finch to the six - foot - tall emu, which found that they consistently have more neurons packed into their small brains than are stuffed into mammalian or even primate brains of the same mass.

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

Although trees and birds and animals remain, humans are gone from the landscape, except for pockets of people who have drifted back, despite the official prohibition, to live and die in their small villages.

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.

Their closest relation is a small and obscure family of fruit - eating birds from Africa.

«This study provides compelling evidence that the iconic small size of birds results from a chance but sustained pattern of selection for smaller body size spanning millions of years,» says Gregory Erickson of Florida State University in Tallahassee.

It seemed so obvious that if fairly small changes in development, which adjusted the timing and concentrations of growth and signaling factors, could have led to the evolution of birds from nonavian dinosaurs, we could readjust those changes in development and get a dinosaur from a chick embryo.

Dave Kelly from the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, and colleagues compared how the plant fared on the North Island with its survival on three smaller islands where these birds live still.

A small Nottingham museum offers a big frisson for fossils fans, with a world - exclusive showing of key finds that proved birds evolved from dinosaurs

There are countless examples of how global warming is affecting life, from plants flowering earlier in spring, to species spreading to areas that were once too cold for them to survive, to birds becoming smaller.

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.

As such, a cat's ideal diet is made up mainly of protein and fats derived from small prey such as rodents, birds and small reptiles and amphibians.

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.

In one of many examples, they showed that removing invasive mammals from small, dry islands could halve the extirpation risk for threatened native birds and mammals, but doing so on large, wet islands may have less benefit.

Scientists from Griffith University have taken part in an international study which has revealed the genetic secrets of how a small bird can survive in one of the most hostile environments on earth.

We showed that the wakes of a small bat species differ from those of birds in some important respects.

Blue budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus, second from the left) may be common in pet stores today, but when they first appeared in Europe in the second half of the 19th century, they were a rarity: In the wild, these small parrots usually have a green chest and a yellow head like the two birds on the right.

Smaller birds sometimes nest near larger species to benefit from their more aggressive defense against predators.

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

A tiny barbet - like bird from the Lower Oligocene of Germany: The smallest species and earliest substantial fossil record of the Pici (woodpeckers and allies)

An international team of researchers have now found an important piece of the puzzle: migratory birds about to fly to South America from the Arctic harbor small plant parts in their feathers.

They served primarily to protect the smaller predatory dinosaurs — which would eventually give rise to birds — from losing too much body heat.

The bird testing by the Michigan State researcher was largely unfunded, except for a small amount from the community task force.

Most scientists agree that birds evolved from small dinosaurs at least 150 million years ago, and the earliest known birds have wings and feathers that look much like those of modern birds.

The relative abundance and damage patterns of the fossils representing small mammals and birds suggest that they are derived from undigested material regurgitated by owls (owl pellets).

The explanation might lie in small airborne birds» need to detect and track objects whose image moves very swiftly across the retina — for blue tits, for example, to be able to see and avoid all branches when they take cover from predators by flying straight into bushes.

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.

Adélies are two - foot - tall birds that feed on krill, fish, and squid and build their nests from small beach pebbles in colonies that may occupy the same site for thousands of years.

Golden eagles, like most birds, will breed only with their own species, the result being a third, smaller golden eagle that can be diagnosed as such from a distance by checking off a short, satisfying list of physical identifiers.

Anatomical and aerodynamic analyses of fossils and living birds show that birds evolved from small, predatory dinosaurs that lived on the ground

The University of Minnesota's Annie Bracey and her colleagues attached geolocators — small, harmless devices that record a bird's location over time based on day length — to 106 terns from breeding colonies in Manitoba, Ontario, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and New York.