Sentences with phrase «small birds with»

Although it's not great for me, it» even worse for small birds with smaller lungs.

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

For some reason, the Tooth Fairy (Isla Fisher) is a colorful small bird with even smaller ones as her assistants.

If you wish to have a bird but do not want to invest so much money into a pet for 80 years, perhaps you may want to consider a smaller bird with shorter life span and lesser annual investment.

Not exact matches

The first Little Birds to enter service with the 160th were actually OH - 6A Cayuses, small helos that were already on their way out of the Army and National Guard by the time SOAR was created.

There, he practiced sermonizing in a swamp, preaching to birds and alligators before tryouts with small churches.

For the birding hobbyist: Handcrafted by a small workshop in France, this Town Bird Call Set ($ 50) comes with two wooden calls that duplicates the songs of wild birds.

According to natural selection the members of the bird species with the smallest useless wing would be the most adaptable and most likely to survive in the largest numbers.

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.

Top with 2 mint leaves, 2 thai basil leaves, carrot matchsticks, cucumber slices, 2 - 3 slices of thai bird chiles, crispy fried shallots, and a small drizzle of nuoc cham sauce.

The Lodi Rules ™ Program certifies sustainable management of the ecosystem, soils, water, business practices, human resources, and pest control with an emphasis on reducing pesticide risk to farm workers, consumers, small aquatic invertebrates, birds, and bees.

«Free - range» chickens may also be raised in large barns, similar to «cage - free» birds, with a small door that leads outside - but outside they may find a concrete pad and no grass.

Chicken consumption is off the charts in US, but forcing them to live their lives in small battery cages for at least half a dozen birds, with no space to move around is inhumane!

Kicking things up in the flavour department, I added a small bird's eye chili with nutmeg and pinch of cinnamon.

And some years, instead of a big raucous gathering, you might find yourself with a small dinner party where a whole bird is complete overkill.

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.

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.

Puerto Rico has two hot sauces of note: one is called pique and is made with acidic Seville oranges and habaneros; the other is sofrito, which combines small piquins («bird peppers») with annatto seeds, cilantro, onions, garlic, and tomatoes.

«A mixture of sliced cucumbers, shallots, or onions, cut very small, a little lime juice, and Madeira wine, with a few pods of bird pepper well mashed, and mixed with the liquor, is reckoned an unfailing stimulant to the appetite in the West Indies, and is called man - dram,» wrote William Rhind in A History of the Vegetable Kingdom (London: Blackie & Son, 1868).

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.

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.

On about the fourth attempt to move in close, I crossed a small clearing and was about to swing around a bush when over it I saw a number of birds wing into the air with loud chirping.

With the exception of the guests of the island's small number of hotels, the population seems largely to consist of the graceful Fregata magnificens, or frigate bird.

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.

Moose Hill in Sharon has a small native garden and a larger bird garden, both alive with birds, butterflies, and insects.

I think this would make a beautiful table top centerpiece, with added miniature birds or even small colored balls will make it even better.

One of the most popular things to do is to construct a cage around the feeder with spaces large enough only for small birds.

The study provides a straightforward answer to a puzzle that comparative neuroanatomists have been wrestling with for more than a decade: how can birds with their small brains perform complicated cognitive behaviors?

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.

Galápagos cormorants (Phalacrocorax harrisi) are the only cormorant species with wings too small to lift the birds» large bodies off the ground.

But several reports, including a pair of recent small - scale radio - tracking studies, suggest cleaned birds have a good chance of long - term survival even compared with birds that were never oiled.

«What was impressive was the consistency of the size change along the dinosaur - to - bird transition, with every descendant smaller than its ancestor,» says Lee.

Where top carnivores disappear, these smaller predators often explode in numbers, with potentially disastrous consequences for small birds and mammals.

The first clue that digits and penises might be birds of a feather came in 1991, when a team led by developmental biologist Denis Duboule of the University of Geneva and Pierre Chambon of the Institute for Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology in Strasbourg, France, found that some mice with a mutated gene, called hoxd13, had abnormally small digits and malformed penises.

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

An even bigger problem, he says, is that competitive displays by male birds seeking to mate with females are «only observed in a small number of species around the world.»

Hence the collective impact of even occasional preying is huge, with domestic cats killing some 14 billion small birds and mammals a year in the US alone.

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.

With the new work, the blind mole rat joins the small league of animalsincluding birds, fish and turtlesthat uses an internal compass to read the earths magnetic field.

So researchers often place a small metal band inscribed with an identifying number around each bird's flipper.

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.

This, essentially, was the argument I had faced through three decades of work with Alex. He was not supposed to be able to name objects and categories, understand «bigger» and «smaller,» «same» and «different,» because his was a bird brain.

That year, US government officials were faced with the double threat of H1N1 swine flu, which threatened to explode into a devastating pandemic, and the more deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, which was continuing to infect small numbers of people.

The area is rich with animal skeletons, and they estimate there are at least 13 different species of dinosaur present based on teeth and other remains, plus birds, small mammals and some fish.

Fossil data presented at an evolution conference at The Rockefeller University indicate that pterodactyls got steadily larger, possibly because smaller ones couldn't compete with birds.

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.

When the dinosaurs became extinct, plenty of small bird - like dinosaurs disappeared along with giants like Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops.