Sentences with phrase «than birds at»

Geese on the periphery may have to be more watchful for predators, but they have access to better - quality food than birds at the centre.

On average they made 6.6 more pecks per minute than birds at the centre of the flock.

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.

That model enables Bird's company to sell items at lower price points than Wayfair and even Amazon.

At night I lined them up on my bed: fat flakes of mica, buckeyes bigger than shooter marbles, blue jay feathers, bird bones and — if I was lucky — a cicada shell, one...

There are more than a couple of us early birds at the University Farmers Market every Saturday morning.

The Smithsonian Bird - Friendly certification requires a minimum shade cover of 40 %, and the overstory should include at least ten different species of shade trees, with no more than 70 % of the trees being Inga species, which means more habitat remains appropriate for birds.

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.

Because we always want to remember that meat comes from actual animals, and because working with a whole bird is an easier way to do that than breaking down, say, a side of beef at home.

Recommendation 3: That the trigger to judge a pastured poultry farm a Section 2 use (streamlined process) be set at more than 450 birds / Ha, subject to meeting minimum standards.

The minimum space requirements for barn - raised chickens include clean air (less than 10 parts per million (ppm) of ammonia), 15 percent of the floor space must have litter for the hens to dust - bathe, perches must be provided at 6 inches per bird, and at least 20 percent of those perches must be elevated.

An ardent tree climber, bike rider, feeder of birds and catfish (the water hazards at Eldorado swarm with them), she much prefers to sleep in an old T shirt than in a nightgown.

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?

And while it was certainly easier to keep Smith than to chase a similar but better or cheaper free agent due to Bird rights, I can't help but look at Nate Robinson, who is still available, and imagine him as a much better fit at a much better price without that nagging knee surgery.

It's part of a larger pattern of mismanaging player - assets so conspicuously that you're forced to offload them for less than market value — at the end of the day, a professional team is a group of assets, and a huge part of managing a team is doing what you can to increase the market valuation of those assets — and that's where I call this «vendetta» and not «style,» because even a disciplinarian could offer little carrots like, y ’ know, an absolutely deserved All - Star nod (at ZERO cost to himself or the club) but instead chose to publicly flip his most gifted player the bird.

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.

Participants not only learn and share information about species that visit their yards and feeders at this time of year, they contribute knowledge to more than 40 years of winter bird - feeder sighting records.

Thousands of grounded migrants that arrived mid-week preceding Bird - a-thon were pinned down by the inclement weather, thus giving more than 600 stalwart Bird - a-thoners an opportunity to appreciate spring migration at its best.

First, the chickens in backyard flocks live longer than commercial birds, and during their lives they are exposed to more wild birds and rodents (commercial poultry farms have strict biosecurity aimed at excluding «visitors»).

had never considered weaning at 16 months, or even cutting back on nursing, with my others, it felt as if I was going to have to «force» T - Bird into accepting less than she needed and less then my parenting principles supported.

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.

More than 50 residents said the plan puts at risk a piece of land inhabited by myriad bird and animal species that they believe have thrived until now without outside interference.

When this is sacrificed, parents find themselves getting up at night more than expected or handling an early bird.

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.

Fuertes (1874 - 1927), whose skill at depicting birds actively in their appropriate habitats was arguably greater even than that of John James Audubon, set a new standard for bird illustration.

LINCOLN, MA — Some of America's most important and visually stunning bird portraits — not viewed by the public in more than 30 years — will be on display for a single evening when Mass Audubon presents «The Art of Birds» Thursday, September 19 at the Massachusetts Archives» Commonwealth Museum in Boston.

But for a senior mandarin to call in the police over a leak more associated The birds have flown Members of Parliament need to be protected from the executive with party point - scoring than national security, and then for the misuse of authority to be compounded by the Government, police, Speaker and Serjeant at Arms raises real and important concerns.

Spectacular feathered dinosaurs discovered in the last decade or so show clearly how a small group of theropod dinosaurs gave rise to the first birds, but these specimens are nearly all Cretaceous in origin, at least 20 million years younger than Archaeopteryx.

Young birds running up steep ramps flap their wings before they can fly, and scientists studying the energetics of flight have found that birds use far less energy running and flapping up steep inclines angles than they do flying at similar angles.

According to Forero - Medina, more than half of all birds live at elevations above 1,000 meters, and of those, more than 80 percent live in the tropics.

The researchers speculate that the preference is due to the bats» saliva, which is better at liquefying mammal blood than bird blood.

It was well - known that bears were dispersing seeds through their scat, Levi said, but it was not known that they were dispersing more seeds than birds, or the relative contribution of brown and black bears to seed dispersal, or whether the two species bears were eating berries at different times of the year.

Nicky Clayton is no better at sitting still than are the birds she studies.

Wild birds that are more clever than others at foraging for food have different levels of a neurotransmitter receptor that has been linked with intelligence in humans, according to a study led by McGill University researchers.

With the help of fellow researcher Dustin Rubenstein, a behavioral and evolutionary ecologist at Columbia University, Botero collected data for more than 200 bird species that included gulls, geese, ducks, sparrows, bluebirds and falcons.

So even though the stick does not look like a beak — maybe not even to the chick — this strange object is more effective than a real beak at activating the bird's beak - detection system.

Yet more than 40 percent of these papers only mentioned volunteers in the acknowledgements, while another roughly 40 percent did not use the term volunteers at all, simply mentioning the name of the group that provided the data, like the British Trust for Ornithology's Common Birds Census.

Now, scientists have reported in the journal Bird Study that concentrating on making food supplies less accessible may prove more effective at countering these «nuisance events» than removing rooftop nesting.

During more than two decades at Rockefeller, Peter Marler, a leader in the field, examined the interplay between the inborn program for song in young birds and the influence of social factors, uncovering parallels to speech acquisition in human babies.

Birds fed the crude oil were less active and spent less time preening their feathers than birds fed peanut oil, said study coauthor Christopher Goodchild, an ecotoxicologist at Oklahoma State University in StillwBirds fed the crude oil were less active and spent less time preening their feathers than birds fed peanut oil, said study coauthor Christopher Goodchild, an ecotoxicologist at Oklahoma State University in Stillwbirds fed peanut oil, said study coauthor Christopher Goodchild, an ecotoxicologist at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.

The robins live at the Zealandia wildlife sanctuary, a 225 - hectare nature paradise in Wellington where more than 700 of the birds live wild and protected from predators in the middle of the city.

Newmark and an international team of colleagues report that regenerating less than 8,200 hectares (ha) of forest at nine locations in the Eastern Arc Mountains, and 6,500 ha of forest at two locations in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil, could increase the survival time of bird communities up to 56-fold.

An earlier study by the same researchers found that Anna's hummingbirds (Calypte anna) accelerated more slowly and had other performance falloffs at altitudes higher than the birds» home range.

A light - activated compass at the back of some birds» eyes may preserve electrons in delicate quantum states for longer than the best artificial systems.

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have isolated human antibodies against a type of bird flu that has killed more than 200 people in China since 2012 and which may pose a worldwide pandemic threat.

In California, which has seen 92 people infected with West Nile virus this year, birds seem to be surviving better than before, says William Reisen, an entomologist at the Center for Vectorborne Diseases at the University of California, Davis.

Passive robots in the form of sedentary animals may be less flashy than a bird skin stretched over a robotic frame, but they can be just as good at keeping tabs on their environment — and significantly less nasty.

Using high - speed video and devices that monitor acceleration, they found that newly hatched birds could walk up slopes of 45 degrees in a large part by flapping their wings at a different angle than when flying.

Ohio's Cuyahoga River, a polluted mess that has caught fire at least 10 times since the late 1800s and is notorious for erupting into flames in 1969, now supports more than 60 species of fish, as well as beavers and birds, in places that were once all but devoid of life.

The dino was about 1.65 meters long, a little longer than a modern condor, but at an estimated 20 kilograms, it was probably nearly twice as heavy as that bird.