Sentences with phrase «young birds during»

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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.

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.

Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig): A comic triumph from writer / director Greta Gerwig about the emotional roller coaster a young girl (Saoirse Ronan) navigates during her final year of Catholic High School in Sacramento, California.

Other powerful performances by women that should not be forgotten during nominations are Annette Bening's dead - on turn as Gloria Grahame in «Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool,» Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf in «Lady Bird»; Margot Robbie and Allison Janney in «I, Tonya,» the young new - to - acting Brooklynn Prince in «The Florida Project,» and Carey Mulligan and Mary J Blige in «Mudbound.»

Lady Bird, directed by Greta Gerwig, concerns itself with a young woman coming of age during her senior year of high school.

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).

When Monks's pleas fall on deaf ears, he fashions a daring escape during a snowstorm, with the young boy slung across his back — and brings the wrath of a madman down on himself and his family, culminating in a diabolically crafted «revolution» — a recreation of Hitchcock's The Birds, but with human predators, unleashed on the town of Bodega Bay, California.

Birds do take naps during the day, especially the young ones, but if they seem to be sleeping more than usual, acting lethargic and not as active, that can also be a sign that a bird is sick.

Of course, young birds will sleep more during the day, and when birds first come into a new environment, their behavior may change.

Make sure it's in a sheltered spot, out of reach of predators, and attract a variety of species by using a range of feeding techniques — during the spring and summer, when birds are feeding their young, put out foods high in protein, and high energy foods in autumn and winter.