Sentences with phrase «young birds»

Each of the bird species lives in an area where nest sites and territories are very scarce, very hard for young birds to get.

If this is done with young birds, they will soon be reaching up with a foot as soon as they hear the command.

Young birds learn to sing by listening to adults and then practice by listening to their own attempts.

Instead, wild young birds follow their parents through the forests to find out where to eat, rest, sleep and meet other birds that may be a potential mate.

It could be that young birds simply do not hear the low notes produced by other birds and drop them out of their song.

Customers buying young birds may wish to show off their new pets — for example, at a bird club or show.

From a young age, he has had an interest in caring for animals and was always nursing a random young bird back to health.

They are all basically young birds and should have more energy than they have been displaying.

You may be able to offer food and supplies, and possibly cash as needed, in exchange for young birds.

Scissor beak can be treated in younger birds simply by applying pressure to the beak a few times a day to shift the beak.

A new study from The Condor: Ornithological Applications provides the first direct estimates of the population size and annual survival of young birds in Oahu's Laysan Albatross population, giving important new insights into the demographics of these «prebreeders.»

(Washington, D.C., April 18, 2013) A new study from British scientists has documented for the first time, significant new impacts to birds from outdoor cats, reporting that even brief appearances of cats near avian nest sites leads to at least a doubling in lethal nest predation of eggs and young birds by third - party animals, as well as behavioral changes in parent birds that lead to an approximately 33 percent reduction in the amount of food brought to nestlings following a predation threat.

However, it's always better to start out taking young birds on short trips once they are acclimated to the home environment.

Smaller birds only need to have their wings clipped as young birds.

This may help young birds avoid inheriting a poor skillset from parents — the likely natural cause of their stress — and becoming trapped by a «bad start in life».

Vulture's migratory movements meant they couldn't be sampled across seasons, but older vultures tended to have higher concentrations of lead, suggesting that older, more dominant individuals exclude younger birds from foraging on carcasses.

The presence of feathers on a very young bird specimen suggests that enantiornithes hatched with the innate ability to fly.

«The abundance of fossils, the presence of young birds among the fossils, and the evolution of a shorter wingspan in the Eastern Bluebird all suggest that these birds did not migrate to the island but were a resident population.

Lead author Chris McClure of the Peregrine Fund and his colleagues believe that the «soft release» method they use with the translocated birds, involving an adjustment period where young birds are allowed to come and go freely but are provided with food, has contributed to the success of the project.

So, where can stores get young birds to sell, especially cockatiels that seem so much harder to come by nowadays?

Dinosaur Egg Study Supports Evolutionary Link Between Birds and Dinosaurs: How Troodon Likely Hatched Its Young

The racing season for old birds runs from April through July, and the season for young birds lasts from August through October.

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.

Young birds without the HVC continued to babble (compare audio of a normal young finch and a babbling youngster with HVC missing), while slightly older finches who had started to learn how to sing took a step backwards.

Most researchers assumed that young birds babbled because they were still learning to develop the nerves of the «motor pathway» that controls these muscles.

«We found sets of genes in young birds whose levels change when they sing, and are linked to learning,» said White, who is also a member of UCLA's Brain Research Institute.

Rutz also tested young birds, who had never lived with adults or seen them use tools, and found that they too quickly learned how to use the sticks to get at food — hinting that they have a genetic predisposition to such impressive behaviour.

«The research highlights the role that forest cover can play in buffering animals from stressful environmental conditions — in this case, promoting survival of young birds during drought conditions,» said Amanda Rodewald, professor and director of conservation science at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, who was not involved with the research.

After DDT was banned in 1972, the Peregrine Fund and other conservation groups began breeding peregrine falcons in captivity and releasing young birds at carefully selected cliffs.

Swarms of ants can easily overwhelm young birds in ground nests and small animals like mice, Inkley said.

This occurs more frequently in young birds approaching their peak laying, but it is unusual to find them in standard eggs graded for sale because double - yolkers are usually removed and sold for special culinary purposes.

Zookeepers there coaxed fluffy young birds onto a platform.

That way they might catch young birds ready to nap.

Young birds reproducing for the first time and older hens are the most vulnerable to egg - binding.

Most hand fed Quakers are quite gentle and many make wonderful pets for younger bird owners.

Existing birds in homes may be no more likely to accept new young birds than older ones, so there is really no rule for success when it comes to introducing birds of different ages.

The size of the cage to set up for arriving birds depends on how many of the same species pets are coming in, as it is always best to keep young birds together for the first week or two.

An outgoing young bird will typically learn faster and more readily than a shy, older parrot would, and males are often better talkers than females.

[2] Younger birds take several years to acquire the full range of foraging skills of their parents.

[48] On the Galapagos Islands, the short - eared owl (Asio flammeus) occasionally eats young birds.

The author accuses Stantec of choosing to do a survey only of spring migration for the birds while birds are actually at greater risk in the fall because they are moving more slowly (there is not the push to build a nest and raise this year's offspring), and because there are young birds making the trip for the first time.

Looks as this particular young bird indulged generously, as evidenced in the beautiful berry - hued blush its feathers boast.

And because these birds don't migrate as the seasons change, and young birds don't settle far from where they grew up, it's likely that the differences persist in each local group — the ornithological equivalent of having Southern drawls and Boston accents.

Unable to fly, nestling birds depend on their parents for both food and protection: vocal communication between parents and offspring helps young birds to determine when they should beg for food and when they should crouch in the nest to avoid a predator seeking an easy meal.

However, Wolf cited a much smaller estimate of land birds than that used in the scientific article and failed to note that the breeding population is vastly augmented by the annual hatch of young birds, so his «astonishing» revelation is off target.

It's best to advise customers not to do so for at least two months after getting a bird (so they are sure it is completely healthy), and even then, they should wait until the bird is at least six to eight months old, as very young birds can be more vulnerable to diseases.