Sentences with phrase «wild birds as»

«Avid birders view wild birds as their outdoor pets.

Get customers to view wild birds as their personal «outdoor pets» and watch sales of premium wild bird seed mixes soar.

Many bird enthusiasts these days are not only referring to wild birds as «outdoor pets,» but are also recommending that people buy high - quality birdseed to draw a wider variety of species and in greater numbers.

There are probably lots of dog and cat owners who feed wild birds as well.

Not exact matches

Despite the name, these tasty wings don't come from the wild birds also known as kookaburras.

This hidden away natural habitat on the backside of our property has oak, cedar and Douglas fir trees, wild edible greens (including Miners Lettuce as featured in the recipe below), wild strawberries, Indian plums, wild flowers, and is a popular haven for the local wildlife including elk, deer, coyote, bobcat, and a wide variety of birds.

The provision of structures providing food and shelter, and the lack of pesticide use, attract new or re-colonizing species to the organic area (both permanent and migratory), including wild flora and fauna (e.g. birds) and organisms beneficial to the organic system such as pollinators and pest predators.

Benjamin Franklin was so enamored with the wild turkey that he thought it would be a far better choice as America's national bird rather than the bald eagle.

«Several studies have measured parasite infection in urban animals, but surprisingly we are the first to measure whether wild birds living in a city were more or less infected by a parasite and a pathogen, as well as how these infections are linked to their physiological stress,» said Mathieu Giraudeau, a post-doctoral associate who previously worked with Kevin McGraw, ASU associate professor with the School of Life Sciences.

H5N1 flu, first identified as a threat to humans in Hong Kong in 1997, spreads from Asia around the world, apparently carried by wild birds.

«Not only are these insects vital as pollinators of crops and wild plants, but they also provide food for many birds and mammals,» said joint lead researcher Dr Ros Shaw, also of the University of Exeter.

He thinks surveillance of an entire rural ecosystem — pigs, birds, people, as well as dogs, cats, horses, and other domesticated and wild animals — would finally yield some deeper insights into why and how flu viruses evolve.

More than 100 species of wild waterfowl have been identified as natural, usually asymptomatic hosts of a variety of avian influenza A (bird flu) subtypes.

As humans populate formerly wild regions, they increasingly intersect bird migration patterns.

In a study published earlier this year in Oryx, researchers from the University of Amsterdam's zoological museum concluded that ever since the Indonesian government officially labeled Javan hawk eagles as rare and precious, illegal poaching has removed the birds from the wild at an ever - escalating pace.

A permanent station floating nearby could offer a variety of tourist attractions, such as wild zero - gravity versions of ball - and - stick sports, or even the possibility of a visitor flying like a bird though large open spaces using wings strapped to the arms.

But some interruptions can be traced directly to the interference of «wild locals» such as birds or monkeys.»

Joint research by Uppsala University, Stockholm University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) now shows that, in small passerines (perching birds) in the wild, vision is considerably faster than in any other vertebrates — and more than twice as fast as ours.

It appears to replicate more successfully than usual in ducks, infects a wide range of wild birds and is shed orally as well as in faeces — all characteristics that help it spread.

While populations of wild animals have halved, only about 1 to 2 per cent of species have been lost so far — at least in well - studied groups such as mammals and birds.

Because the birds return every year and because they raise chicks, the reserve has been designated as a true flamingo colony — believed to be the world's most northerly wild colony.

The birds were kept in sound isolation chambers with adult males, who acted as tutors just as they would in the wild.

The findings give new insights into the social behaviour of birds and demonstrate how social interactions can shape other aspects of wild animals» lives, such as the environmental conditions they will experience based on their choice of home location.

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).

As a young man, I used to go to our public library to look at and wonder about this wild pigeon that is no longer here... I would love nothing more than to be a part of the propagation and training of these new birds.»

The Lost Bird Project follows the road - trip that McGrain and his brother - in - law, Andy Stern, take as they search for the locations where the birds were last seen in the wild and negotiate for permission to install McGrain's large bronze sculptures there.

If you can get it, the best are game animals like buffalo, deer, rabbit, and elk, as well as meat from game birds such as wild turkey and pheasant.

This hidden away natural habitat on the backside of our property has oak, cedar and Douglas fir trees, wild edible greens (including Miners Lettuce as featured in the recipe below), wild strawberries, Indian plums, wild flowers, and is a popular haven for the local wildlife including elk, deer, coyote, bobcat, and a wide variety of birds.

1 9x9x2 salt block 1/4 cup fresh lime juice 1/4 cup Thai fish sauce 1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar 2 tablespoons toasted sesame oil 1 garlic clove, minced 1 hot chile pepper, such as bird chile, habanero, cayenne or Scotch bonnet, stem and seeds removed, minced 1/4 cup finely shredded carrot 1 1/4 pounds large, wild - caught sea scallops (about 16) 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

Peanuts (for particular wild - bird feeds) and sunflower seeds are sold as bird food as well, but the processing is slightly different, as is the case with hemp seeds.

You can even take advantage of a one hour handling session and a two hour hawk walk as you get to experience firsthand how birds of prey survive in the wild.

When Truffaut calls The Birds an «apocalyptic tone poem,» he could easily be talking about this picture that paints a cold, tiny portrait of a settlement hewn together from wet logs and animal comforts wholly inadequate as insulation against the wild.

Social dramas or «message films» expressed powerful lessons, such as the harsh conditions of Southern prison systems in Hell's Highway (1932) and I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932), the plight of wandering groups of young boys on freight cars during the Depression in William Wellman's Wild Boys of the Road (1933), or the lawlessness of mob rule in Fritz Lang's Fury (1936), or the resourcefulness of lifer prisoner and bird expert Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster) in John Frankenheimer's Birdman of Alcatraz (1961), or the tale of a framed, unjustly imprisoned journalist (James Cagney) in Each Dawn I Die (1939).

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So self - serious that it became an unwitting parody of the beloved first season, the return of «True Detective» struck an uncomfortable compromise between wild, fantastical elements (a corpse with its eyes burned out, an assailant in a bird's head mask) and social realism (online porn, PTSD, substance abuse)-- and in the process exposed Nic Pizzolatto's writing as a bunch of risible blather masquerading as poetry.

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First of all, that's illegal to do in the U.S., and second, it's not a good idea, as they are wild birds and would require care that may not be easy or possible to manage in captivity.

Selling products for wild birds is a win - win for everyone, as the birds get a high - quality food to eat, the customer feels they are caring for their wild birds and the store brings in more business.

Retailers should keep in mind the animal lovers who are as passionate about the wild birds that visit their backyards as they are about their in - home pets.

Birds such as finches, budgerigars (parakeets) and cockatiels, which eat a lot of seeds in the wild, can be fed a fresh seed mix as part of their main diet, but they also need pellets and fresh foods.

In fact, wild bird food is how Kaytee originated as a company.»

Another great reason to feed insects to wild birds — the more insect - eating birds that come to the feeders, the more insects they will eat around the feeders as well.

It is important for retailers to offer appropriate suet formulas for their regions and the season, as well as help keep customers informed about the needs of their local wild birds.

The point of this column is not to encourage people to go out and capture wild birds to keep as pets in their home.

Certainly, as pet stores, we need to be sure that customers can find those premium mixes of wild bird food easily on our shelves.

The idea is to have customers think of the wild birds around their home as «outdoor pets» that they can care for and help provide for.

Originally developed to hunt large animals such as stags and wild boar, the Weimaraner was then refined to hunt smaller game, including birds.

While getting a Ph.D., her interest shifted from academic to applied animal behavior, as she studied first laboratory birds, then companion parrots and then wild exotic bird species at the Bronx Zoo.

Zebras in the wild live on seed and this is fine for captive birds as well.