Sentences with phrase «small birds such»

Normally you'll be able to register up to two pets per household, including cats, dogs, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, gerbils and small birds such as budgies, but in the first few months this may be limited to one pet.

A flight cage made for small birds such as parakeets and cockatiels may be large enough to house a cockatoo.

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).

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.

For example, smaller birds such as finches and «budgies» generally assimilate well.

This must be done with cages in the store as well as at home, and it is best to replace these types of perches more often to avoid health issues such as the transmission of scaly mites, which are seen most often in the smaller birds such as canaries and parakeets.

Although it's more difficult, many people have also trained smaller birds such as canaries and finches to use a water bottle.

Large parrots such as a macaw could easily hurt or kill a small bird such as a parakeet by accident or through aggressiveness.

Not exact matches

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

«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.

She claims bigger birds don't have enough skin (or fat) for the amount of meat and will be too dry to be cooked at such a high heat, so I would just say try to find the smallest one you can.

He brought back a magnificent set of photographs in which the hawks, down to the smallest feather, to the glint of light on the golden lores, are portrayed with such startling reality that the paper birds seem to be gathering themselves to swoop down out of the frames.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This peculiarity, however, had not been observed in smaller birds, such is the case with the Eurasian siskin (Carduelis spinus).

«It's incredibly impressive for something with such a small brain,» says Jackie Chappell, one of the scientists studying the birds» behaviour.

Until recently, the idea that we could chart a small bird's migration in such detail was unthinkable.

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.

Such birds include for example many small perching birds, gulls and parrots.

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.

Such birds keep their stress down by anticipating or learning to avoid problems more effectively than smaller - brained counterparts, researchers suggest.

However, it has now been shown that such windows are not likely to work for all species, but only for birds like small passerines, gulls and parrots, who have a special type of colour vision.

The research involved walking a thoroughbred between three dimensional radiographs, an imaging technique developed by Professor Stephen Gatesy and colleagues at Brown University and used previously to view bone interaction in small animals such as fish and birds.

The birds of prey typically hunt other birds or small mammals but they occasionally opt for larger prey, such as coyotes.

«Researchers in the field of cognitive neuroscience have been wondering for a long time how it was possible that some birds, such as crows or parrots, are smart enough to rival chimpanzees in terms of cognitive abilities, despite their small brains and their lack of a cortex,» says Letzner.

Although these shifts might sound like small beans for mobile animals like birds, which can pick their environment with relative precision, for the very small, the very large and the very rooted, such a pace might be impossible.

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.

These underestimated individuals are vital to the long - term survival of small populations, such as in the hihi, a rare bird found only in New Zealand.

They provide control on populations of small mammals and birds, such as beaver, geese and wild turkeys, and can help to provide stability in the composition and numbers of general wildlife populations (Voigt and Berg 1999, Gompper 2002).

Ticks acquire the bacterium through feeding on deer and small infected small animals, such as mice, squirrels, birds.

This may explain why, for example, birds with small relative brain sizes, such as pheasants, find it harder to avoid a moving car than those with larger brain size, such as magpies.

Scientists have long wondered why a bird with such a large population, only decades before its extinction, disappeared so quickly and so completely, without leaving even a small population behind.

They also ate many different kinds of small animals such as birds and rabbits as well many that we don't usually eat such as rodents and reptiles.

Yes, the original Rescue Remedy can be used on animals, however if you have a smaller animal, such as birds, rodents or reptiles you may want to use the alcohol free pet version just to be on the safe side.

There weren't cows just wandering around, but there were plenty of African Buffalo, antelope, copious amounts of game birds, pigs, other smaller mammals, such as rats and porcupines.

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Will the newly diversified group of voters provide a boon to smaller audience favorite films such as «Lady Bird,» «The Florida Project» and «Get Out»?

A senior at a Catholic all - girls school in 2002 — the same year Gerwig graduated from St. Francis — Lady Bird suffers from a chronic case of teenage boredom, exacerbated by such youthful ensnarements and pitfalls as an atypical first love, a disheartening first time (her first love not present), family money woes, a hypercritical mother and, most importantly, an irrepressible desire to see all of it grow smaller and smaller in the rearview mirror.

Life is about small milestones, no matter what age you are, and Lady Bird relishes the achievement experienced checking off boxes that at one point posed such significant meaning to us all.

Bringing an end to one of the most wide open best picture races in years, «The Shape of Water» — a fantastical fable about a mute woman who falls in love with an aquatic creature — claimed the top prize Sunday night at the 90th Academy Awards, beating out a strong field of eight rivals that included box office hits such as «Dunkirk» and «Get Out» as well as smaller, more intimate fare such as «Call Me By Your Name» and «Lady Bird.»

For such a small and obscure island country, the Solomon Islands played an unpredictably large role in World War II (as the character Jim experiences in The Bird Skinner).

Though smaller pets such as cats or birds pose less of a problem, the ability to care for them properly is still diminished, often to the detriment of the pet.