Sentences with phrase «work on bird»

I first saw this in 1966 at college, where the Biology Dep» t had brought in a young postdoc researcher to speak about his work on bird eggs and DDT.

Even some of the scientists who are supportive of Oren's quest have a hard time reconciling the paucity of mapinguari data with the rigor of his work on birds and biodiversity.

A recent toxic spill in San Leandro Bay covered birds with a mysterious goo, right where our third grade students have been working on bird habitat restoration.

Her recent publications include works on birds exposed to oil spills, research on sharks and spiny dogfish, and accumulation of rodenticides in red - tailed hawks.

Not exact matches

Asked if he thought Bird made mistakes with its launch, VanderZanden answered carefully: «Our approach is to work with cities very early on in the process, so we reached out, started a dialogue with Santa Monica the week we actually launched... Any time there's new innovation it's never clear exactly where you fit into the permitting and regulatory scheme.»

While «opting in» requires making a choice that will put more of the responsibility for long - term savings on the members» shoulders, «it starts to cause them to learn how to contribute to their future, their own retirement,» said John Bird, senior vice president of military affairs at USAA, a financial services firm that works with about 12 million current and former members of the U.S. military and their families.

Bird confirmed that it was involved in working on the bill.

Homer wants to take a break from work, so he gets The Incredible Drinking Bird to hit the same key on the keyboard for him while goes out for a beer.

But so many religious folk believe that selective breeding for farm animals, horses, dogs, cage birds, and so on, works, or why would they do it???

Hartshorne had more than a passing acquaintance with science, and with biology and evolutionary theory in particular — I have already mentioned his work in the psychology of sensation and on the aesthetics of bird song.

First the turkey breast is rinsed then patted dry and a little work is required to get this bird to lay relatively flat on the grill for more even cooking.

Actually, I was really experimenting for snacks for a sports nutrition theme that I had going on at work, and decided to make it nut free as well to kill two birds with one stone.

Though I will say that on nights I actually manage to exercise after work and get home at 7:30 starving, I'm of the «put an egg on it» persuasion (precursor to «put a bird on it»?)

I'm a bird lover, coffee drinker, and huge food politics nerd working on a project examining the economics of CAFE and FT coffee, with applications for eco-certified coffees and other similarly certified products.

When to drink this coffee (field oriented): All day long, doing spring migration counts or breeding bird census work, even on warm days.

Getting shat on is better than getting dive - bombed — I was crossing a road on the way home from work and a bird straight up ran into my face!

In May 2001, five non-profit organizations that work on coffee conservation issues (Conservation International, Consumer's Choice Council, Rainforest Alliance, Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, and the Summit Foundation) took a step toward creating a unified front by releasing a document entitled «Conservation Principles for Coffee Production.»

Now the Bird gets up early in the morning in St. Petersburg, Fla., puts on jeans and goes to Huggins - Stengel field to work out with Detroit's team of neophytes in the Florida instructional league.

In his off time Bailey works on pieces of sculpture — massive - winged birds with thin, curved necks, a pair of girls bent like mangrove roots in a wild dance, a memorial to President John F. Kennedy with Air Force One flying above the White House.

But there the dispatches leave off; not a word about whether the President is a snap shooter or takes his time and is content with one bird per flush; not a line on whether he works around between covey and woods to try the tricky overhead shots; not a word as to whether he uses the swing - through system or the pointing - out system when he pulls the trigger.

Charles Darwin is most famous for his work on Natural Selection, the evidence for which came from his voyage on the HMS Beagle observing and collecting fossils, birds and whatever else he could find.

My acrylic work is built up of several layers of pattern and colour, using my own handmade stencils, stamps or printing with bits of material, using scraping tools, sometimes adding usually my own collaged papers, and then I'll work on the figures or the animals, birds.

I particularly enjoy putting the eyes and faces on the birds and animals I make, as that's when I can see their quirky personality emerge, which is nice when you've been working with them for a while!

This simple Birds Nest Math Activity is one such activity — the same equipment can be used for toddlers and preschoolers learning to count up to those working on addition and subtraction.

Look at the log you created to find clues as to whether you've got a night owl or an early bird on your hands, and take your little one's natural rhythms into consideration along with your own needs (i.e. getting up early for work, needing time with your spouse, etc.) when establishing their routine.

Our habitat restoration work includes unique experience creating grassland bird habitat on recently closed landfills.

In this piece from 2010, I wrote of right wing hostility to Michelle O's efforts: «Absent pre-existing political animus toward the Obamas (which of course is at work here), that view seems about as rational to me as attacking former First Lady Laura Bush for «meddling in my child's education» or Lady Bird Johnson for «thinking she can tell us what flowers to plant on our highways.»

Under the leadership (1980 - 1999) of Gerard A. Bertrand, Mass Audubon spearheaded passage of critical land and water protection legislation, while also maintaining focus on local and international bird protection, launching the Coastal Waterbird Program in 1987 and beginning cooperative work with the Belize Audubon Society in 1984, then forming Programme for Belize in 1988.

Kathy: The relationship between my family time and work time remind me of the birds I would see on our neighbour's horse's back - a deliciously protein - rich, symbiotic relationship!

Jeff is a Field Ornithologist at Mass Audubon, where he focuses on working landscapes and the habitat management of forest birds, including the coordination of Mass Audubon's Foresters for the Birds probirds, including the coordination of Mass Audubon's Foresters for the Birds proBirds program.

While his current projects involve everything from oysters and horseshoe crabs to bats and butterflies, he has studied primarily bird ecology for the last 20 years, working on research projects in Kenya, Florida, Texas, California, Arizona, Mexico, and the Pacific Northwest.

Jeff is a Field Ornithologist at Mass Audubon, where he focuses on working landscapes and the habitat management of forest birds.

Keep these clothespin crafts together to create a fun, 3D work of art, or use your Clothespin Birds to hold on to important memos.

If the garbage truck rumbles by your house at 5:30 am, the birds start chirping, a parent is getting ready for work, or even if the furnace kicks on, it may be just enough to startle your little one out of their light sleep and wake them for the day.

She also wrote the complete text of the Long Pasture Bird Guide, available in the Visitor Center, and she is working on improving and maintaining the sanctuary's bird garden, a place where visitors can see purple martins and other relatively uncommon specBird Guide, available in the Visitor Center, and she is working on improving and maintaining the sanctuary's bird garden, a place where visitors can see purple martins and other relatively uncommon specbird garden, a place where visitors can see purple martins and other relatively uncommon species.

Many have worked in their communities for a year or more with some, like Ramos, on the job continuously since 2008, said Jeremy Bird, the campaign's national field director.

Monies have been approved and so we will consequently work on the percentage because the numbers have to be audited it has to go through a number of things to ensure that a farm was affected with a number of birds..

To ensure the long - term survival of brown pelicans along the Gulf coast, significant work may be needed in coming years to restore the wetlands and fisheries that the birds depend on for breeding and feeding.

And while Ellner's work has not touched on variability in human success, «for birds and shrubs, and in the theoretical models we've looked at, the answer is, it's best to be above average and be lucky.»

While this may work for young birds, breeding adults are likely to make their way back to their nest sites and, depending on how quickly they return, they could be exposed to oil once again.

This work suggests that the management of neighborhoods and cities can have effects on biodiversity that extend from trees and birds all the way to the bug life in bedrooms and basements.

In this seminal work, which focused on islands in the sea, MacArthur and Wilson related the size of an island and its distance from the mainland to the richness and resilience of the island's animals and birds, which were now natives.

Meanwhile, Floyd Reed, a biologist at the University of Hawai'i at Mnoa, has been working on a different kind of drive system called underdominance to prevent the Culex mosquitoes introduced to Hawaii from spreading avian malaria to endangered birds, including the Hawaiian honeycreeper.

Pruthu had been working on elephant conservation at Yala National Park, a vast 242,000 - acre reserve outside Colombo that is home to elephants, leopards, wild buffalo, chital deer, and rare and magnificent birds like the lesser adjutant stork and the Malabar pied hornbill.

Back in the early 1980s, while working at Long Point Bird Observatory in Ontario, Lambert noticed that a fair amount of mating was going on — not just among the birds but among the birders too.

In 2014, UCSF's Nathan Young and Ralph Marcucio, working with Schneider, carried out extensive skull measurements on a variety of embryonic vertebrates and determined the point during development at which the bird face begins to diverge from those of other vertebrates.

«Using stable isotopes, we confirmed that marine birds have been extirpated to such levels on the islands where we worked that rats don't eat them anymore.»

Like humans, the birds work together and pass on information that lets them get better and better at solving problems.

Dr Stowell says, «I'm working on techniques that can transcribe all the bird sounds in an audio scene: not just who is talking, but when, in response to whom, and what relationships are reflected in the sound, for example who is dominating the conversation.»

Møller worked with a taxidermy shop in Denmark, which had data on nearly 4000 birds brought in to be stuffed since 1960.