The bird perching on his photo gear is an echo parakeet, a species he'd come to research. |
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In this zone females were often encountered perching on sweet gale several meters from the shore. |
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In fact most perching birds lay eggs that are mostly white except for a ring of reddish spots around the blunt end. |
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Similarly, parents might lure young from the nest by perching nearby with food or by calling to nestlings. |
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I did see a few egrets in the fields and a group of blue-cheeked bee-eaters hawking for insects and perching on powerlines. |
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The two black ravens perching on the bushes in the center foreground were symbols of death. |
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He settled on the bench, resting his feet on the seat beside me and perching atop the stone backrest. |
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Resident males signal their territories by perching prominently with head raised. |
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Most perching birds stop singing regularly in late summer, but male wood-pewees keep up their chanting until the autumn migration. |
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She asked me to take a seat and I sat on the armchair beside her, perching gingerly on the front of it. |
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Breeding territory and preferred perching places of males were determined based on regular observations from a hide at the breeding barns. |
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Hummingbirds have also been grouped with nightjars, mousebirds and perching birds. |
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In idle moments, we have imagined ourselves tugging playfully at his beard, perching on his chunky thighs and goosing his ample behind. |
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In addition, ten perching bird and eight raptor species, including Mexican spotted owls and goshawks, sometimes nest within these structures. |
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The superintendent called me into his office, perching intimately on the arm of my chair. |
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He took the seat, delicately perching himself on the rather precarious space. |
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The labs most recent innovation, perching a robot, saves valuable energy by allowing the robot to rest like insects or birds do. |
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Archaeopteryx was a true bird, because it had a birdlike skull, perching foot, fully-formed flight feathers, a modern-looking elliptical wing, a furcula and avian lung design. |
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An analysis of more than 100 museum specimens shows that the curvature of claws on pterosaurs ' wing fingers was, on average, comparable to that of perching birds. |
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We are in the large main room of the Roulant's office, sitting or draping or perching ourselves wherever we can in something like a circle. |
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A small product made with the help of a clothes peg and a small stake, enables us to stop birds perching just on the top of the tree. |
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An opposable hallux, indicative of a perching type of foot, and clawed digits on the hand point to an arboreal existence. |
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He likes to feel the heft of a weighty woman perching on his lap. |
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The cutting of nest trees and perching and roosting trees occurs throughout forested areas. |
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The park is inhabited by many perching birds, particularly wood warablers, sparrows, flycatchers and thrushes. |
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During nesting season, it brings the prey to the nest or to a perching place close by. |
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In wildlife plantings, Scots pine provides thermal cover to many animals in winter and perching sites for birds throughout the year. |
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Something special should happen in such a place: smoke billowing out of the earth, an eagle perching on a granite rock, beams of light crossing. |
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A snowy owl, one of the largest owls in northern Québec and the province's offi cial bird, was sighted perching on one of our distribution poles. |
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Its numbers were so great that trees collapsed under the weight of perching birds. |
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Golden and bald eagles, hawks, peregrine falcons, short-eared owls, perching birds and waterfowl are also part of the local fauna. |
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Many birds use electricity structures for perching and vantage points, nesting, obtaining shade, and sensing air currents. |
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His notebooks are filled with cows, meadows and birds perching on the roofs of houses. |
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Where else in town do you see Jack Russell dogs playing in a garden filled with colourful sweetpeas or hear the sweet songs of birds perching in the aviary? |
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These days truck drivers have the audacity to drive through a town or city with passengers perching on the cargo even when they are aware it is illegal. |
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That said, the advisability of perching a laurel crown on a horse-riding hat, which tended to happen after the equestrianism events, may have to be addressed. |
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These and other considerations have led ornithologists, or bird experts, to place the Wood Duck among the perching ducks rather than among the typical dabbling ducks. |
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Branches hung from the roof and scaffolding can also be used for perching. |
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The proposal also lays down minimum standards for management and other factors affecting the hens' environment so as to allow in all cases for nesting, dust bathing and perching. |
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Pigeons should be allowed an area sufficient for flight wherever possible, with a separate perching area for each bird along at least one wall of the enclosure. |
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These birds have very short legs and never settle voluntarily on the ground, perching instead only on vertical surfaces. |
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We prepared taxidermic mounts of two brown-headed cowbirds in a perching position. |
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Straightness in the free stall, rapid entry and lying, infrequent standing and rare perching behaviour characterize stalls with adequate frontward open space. |
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Known as snags, they are used by insects, birds, mammals, and amphibians as sites for perching, resting, roosting, feeding, grooming, hibernating, courting, and laying eggs. |
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Song birds, hawks and owls use poplar as perching and nesting sites. |
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Turkeys should be provided with perches placed at a height where birds on the ground are not able easily to peck and tug at the feathers of perching birds. |
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Many previous perching mechanisms include a complicated swooping maneuver to decrease momentum and land on legs, often without the ability of detaching. |
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Songbirds are distinguished from other perching birds by certain anatomical characteristics, especially the more complicated vocal organ, or syrinx. |
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The leg arrangement of passerine birds contains a special adaptation for perching. |
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Certain species of passerines have stiff tail feathers, which help the birds balance themselves when perching upon vertical surfaces. |
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To encourage reproduction, breeding territories can be protected by establishing buffer zones around individual nest sites to protect the nest tree, perching trees, and feeding areas from human disturbance. |
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Compared with the Friday meeting, this one can be quite a squeeze, with many attendees standing, perching on window sills or sitting on the floor. |
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In aviculture, there are two conditions known as bumblefoot: one is a condition where the young bird's toes develop abnormally so they point in weird directions, making walking, perching and swimming difficult. |
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A bird perching on the rim would peer down inside the pipe at a real mealworm lying on a clear window with a view of the computer screen below. |
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Passerines are distinguished from other orders of Aves by the arrangement of their toes, three pointing forward and one back, which facilitates perching. |
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Healthcare experts warn that commuters should not travel while perching on the minibus roof racks, especially during the ongoing hot spell in the city. |
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This enables passerines to sleep while perching without falling off. |
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For the first couple of days after fledging, young birds often look pretty bewildered, perching themselves on a branch trying to make sense of the big wide world. |
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The passerines of Australia, also known as songbirds or perching birds, include wrens, the magpie group, thornbills, corvids, pardalotes, lyrebirds. |
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A perching owl was added to the strip in 1964 as the club's emblem. |
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Posh wore her trademark spikes boarding the plane but soon made herself comfortable, perching on coiffeur Ken Pavey's lap as they flew to Beijing. |
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