Sentences with phrase «with different bird»

Counting Cats and Counting Birds In both studies, the authors quantified the impact of cat predation on bird populations by comparing different levels of predation with different bird densities.

Not exact matches

It provides a bird's eye view to the different transactions and the processes that go along with it.

The other keynote address, that of Professor Chung, invoked — with its gongs, drums, and appeals to read Scripture from the perspective of birds, trees, and mountains — a very different spirit.

I believe that this experience is typical of much that is going on today, and this is one of the reasons that in this first part of the present book I seek to give a bird's - eye view of process thought with continual reference to the many different areas of human interest.

But, there is a ton of cool facts about chicken including the fact that mother hens show empathy for their chicks and that the birds also have complex communication systems with more than 30 different vocalizations.

If you want the TRUEST of the TRUE peri peri sauce experiences, you'll make this with African Bird's Eye peppers grown in Africa, as the soil conditions there are completely different than anywhere else in the world, which influences the pepper flavor, and therefore the resulting sauce.

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.

They used information on birds and trees in landscapes with different levels of production output to project how different species» population sizes would respond to different ways of using the land.

If he's willing be signed for the vet minimum or something close with bird rights and be happy playing very few minutes, that's a different story.

Everton striker Wayne Rooney could be set for worldwide stardom of a different kind with his potential immortalisation in the Angry Birds.

Fifty - four clubs in the first eight levels of the football pyramid are named after birds, with 20 different species represented.

Lorenzo Pellegrini is no stranger to life in Serie A, having played two seasons of more or less full time duty with Sassuolo, but yesterday's 3 - 0 thrashing of Verona was his first start for Roma, which is obviously a bird of a different feather for a multitude of reasons.

Go apple picking Jump in a pile of leaves Make some autumn art Collect colourful fall leaves Collect seeds from plants in the garden Plant bulbs for next spring Make a bird feeder Make leaf prints Make pumpkin playdough Create an Autumn poem Go looking for spider webs Make a nature table with your Autumn finds Bake an apple pie Carve your own pumpkin Make Autumn sun catchers Go on a bat watch at dusk Make toffee apples Set up a scavenger hunt Collect sycamore seeds Grab an umbrella and go singing in the rain Throw a Halloween party Make an autumn wreath for your door Make a bug hotel Listen to the sound of leaves crunching under your feet Collect conkers Collect pinecones Collect twigs Make hot chocolate Draw or paint some autumn still life Attend harvest festival Make apple crisps / chips Remember what you're thankful for Take pictures of all the different colours you can find in a woodland Make leaf rubbings Go stargazing Have an autumn picnic Look for a full moon Go trick or treating Try apple bobbing Make apple sauce Fly a kite Make a windsock Dry orange slices Roast pumpkin seeds Make Halloween biscuits Make a rain catcher Build an indoor fort Collect acorns Donate old woollens and coats to a charity Help clear leaves from the lawn

I also have two kids who naturally are different with their sleep preferences — my daughter is an early bird like me, and my son is a night owl like his dad.

Now, with the new fossils so precisely dated, the team could determine when exactly different bird lineages split off from one another.

Others described injuries different from those left by bird predators, which together with mucus trails and droppings in the nests, suggests slugs as the cause of the birds» death.

«In designing brains, nature has two parameters it can play with: the size and number of neurons and the distribution of neurons across different brain centers,» said Herculano - Houzel, «and in birds we find that nature has used both of them.»

Although we did most of the studies in frogs, we also followed with chick embryos and found cyclopean eyes, which is important because amphibians and birds are very different, says Rao.

He realized that if these birds lived on such similar islands but were slightly different from one another, there could be just one explanation: They had started out as a single species, but over time and with separation they had drifted apart and changed.

A migratory waterfowl carrying multiple influenza strains nudged another bird, one with a different cocktail of influenza, and the viruses swapped pieces of genetic code in a process called reassortment.

«Birds that have adapted to high - altitude conditions from all these different mountain ranges have repeatedly evolved hemoglobin with elevated oxygen affinities,» Storz said.

«There are cages rammed in with hundreds of birds of different species,» Edmunds says.

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.

Beyond that the birds diverge: Different species have perfected the art of enclosure with myriad forms and resources.

For example, insects, bats and birds have all evolved wings that are similar in function but have completely different origins, eyes have emerged multiple times, and there is good evidence that nervous systems have also evolved several times, with some creatures possessing strange systems unlike the brains and spinal cords we are used to.

They outfitted the birds with global positioning system monitors and then released them from different points 10 to 30 kilometers away from the loft.

Habib's presentation, along with others exploring what ancient birds could and could not do, has sparked intense interest in variations between the anatomies of modern birds that display different behaviors.

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.

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.

Some of the variation the researchers found likely dates back to isolation of different Hermit Thrushes populations by ice sheets during the Pleistocene era, while differences between the two western groups may relate to body size, with larger birds producing lower - frequency songs.

Because adult cardinal songs exist as different dialects in different geographic regions, dispersing juvenile birds may land in a population with a foreign dialect.

One of the interesting things to study, we know Central Park is important for migratory birds and we know that they depend upon the food resources that are here, but no one has ever really done a systematic survey of what actually they are feeding on, like we have never done a canopy study of all the invertebrates up in the trees to see what's coming out when and what is the predominant part of the diet of different birds and sort of quantifying; but what they have done — people have done — with shore birds and sort of gauging, weighing them, you know, catching them, weighing them, seeing how much weight they gain over time while they are rather resting and feeding before they depart on their northern trip.

Using speakers set up near feeding platforms baited with bird seed, they recorded the birds» responses to three different recordings — alarm calls alone, traffic noise alone, and a combination of the two.

The captive bird's ability to make the right tool for the job from unfamiliar materials and using quite different manufacturing methods suggests some understanding of the properties of the material and what might be achieved with a hook.

Do birds with different types of beaks eat different things?

With over 330,000 bird maneuvers recorded, the researchers could compare the agility of the different species.

The evolutionary line leading to birds kept experimenting with different, often radically smaller, body sizes — enabling new body «designs» and adaptations to arise more rapidly than among larger dinosaurs.

The current edition of the DSM, the DSM - IV, is something like a field guide to mental disorders: the book pairs each illness with a checklist of symptoms, just as a naturalist's guide describes the distinctive physical features of different birds.

Leonardo Calle of Montana State University (formerly Florida Atlantic University) and his colleagues wanted to assess how wading birds respond to these changes, because different species face different constraints — longer - legged birds can forage in deeper water than those with shorter legs, and birds that are only active during the day have different needs than those that will forage day or night.

In contrast, the word for bird has several different sounds associated with it like pajaro in Spanish and oiseau in French.

Among the data that can be gleaned from MODIS is precisely when different places on Earth are «greening up» in the spring — a seasonal phenomenon that can be strongly correlated with bird movement.

Intriguingly, another tribe of hunter - gatherers in northern Tanzania, the Hadza, are known to have a similar relationship with the greater honeyguide, yet they use a different type of call — a melodious whistle — to attract the birds.

Dr Deeming added: «From a biological perspective, it is self - evident that different egg shapes by birds, both past and present, might be associated with different nesting behaviours or incubation methods.

The results of the current study provide a partial answer to this mystery: it is precisely because of their small brain that is densely packed with nerve cells that birds are able to reduce the processing time in tasks that require rapid interaction between different groups of neurons.

They analyzed 15 different locations in the birds» DNA and found that it's likely that the Kapiti Island population, which at some 1200 birds is by far the biggest, is losing some of its precious genetic variation with every generation, for reasons that are unclear.

She and colleagues collected DNA from more than 180 of the animals — many nabbed with the help of «kiwi dogs» that can sniff out birds hidden in their burrows — living in four different refuges.

Obviously, the level of detail is very different and I am looking at things from a different perspective, with more of a bird's - eye view.

Previous studies have found that the ability of most people to identify different species is low (e.g. Dallimer et al. 2012), suggesting that for most people it is interacting with birds, not just specific birds, that provides well - being.

It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank coded with many species of plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the trees, with various insects flitting about and with worms crawling through the damp earth and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other and dependent upon each other in sole complex of manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.

At least some scientists have concluded that the head - bobbing seen in pigeons and many other bird species with eyes on opposite sides of the head also serves to provide parallax data from two different positions.