The best thing to do when this occurs is remove finch feeders and thoroughly clean them. |
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Up to nine birds, including three budgies, a dove, a finch, two hens and a quail died at the pets' corner in Longford Park, Stretford. |
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Perched on the back of the large booby, the small finch then sucks its blood. |
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The female purple finch has a prominent white eye stripe which the house finch lacks. |
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The thistle feeder is dominated by goldfinches, although an occasional house finch or song sparrow sneaks a snack. |
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Tortoises have a classic example of a mutualism symbiotic relationship with some species of Galapagos finch. |
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Darwin proposed that the Galapagos finches evolved on the islands from a single species of finch from mainland South America. |
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They include the bananaquit, the blue-black grassquit, the blackfaced grassquit, and the St. Lucia black finch. |
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You may also see some of Zagori's eight species of woodpecker, as well as wallcreepers, dippers, rock thrush, golden oriole, snow finch. |
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And there is even a Galapagos finch which, like a vampire bat, laps up the blood of its victims after piercing their skin or feather shafts. |
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In the wild, the zebra finch is a communal bird, living in flocks of up to 100 members. |
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Another factor inhibiting the finch is a high level of infection by an endoparasitic mite which affects its respiratory system. |
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Finches get bigger, fish gets smaller, but a finch is still a finch and a fish is still a fish. |
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And from that point on, no skylark or sparrow or finch within a bull's roar of Wainui Beach was safe. |
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Today's birds descend from a generalist ancestral finch that invaded the islands from mainland Ecuador. |
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The sequence of the zebra finch genome will assist other biologists who study the bird. |
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However, this singing mode constitutes only a fraction of zebra finch males' prolific song output. |
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Some of these conditions are designed to protect threatened species such as the black-throated finch, red goshawk and yakka skink. |
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They experimentally altered C84 to S84 in the opsin protein of a zebra finch. |
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A Galapagos finch that helped reveal the origins of species to Charles Darwin has now undergone a spurt of rapid climate-driven evolution, biologists report. |
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If you're a male zebra finch, you might dream of wooing a female finch. |
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His observations of the many varieties of finch birds in the Galapagos Island led him to solidify his theory of natural selection. |
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An interesting note about the tortoise concerns the Galapagos finch. |
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The zebra finch is one exception: Young males learn their love songs from their fathers. |
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By comparison with the Galapagos finches, the evolutionary response of the single species of Darwin's finch on the humid, tropical Cocos Island is much less imposing. |
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Remember to clean your finch feeder once every two weeks with mild soap and water solution. |
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Trichomoniasis, an emerging disease in Canadian Maritime wild finch populations and a welfare issue. |
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Game birds include the red-legged partridge and quail, while among the smaller birds are the common finch, robin and greenfinch. |
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The country's bird population includes the nightingale, oriole, blackbird, woodpecker, owl, grouse, partridge, finch, tomtit, quail, and lark. |
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Two endemic land birds are found at Gough, the Gough moorhen and the Hough finch. |
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The researchers also reported that their zebra finch gynandromorph was attacked when housed with other males. |
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Parasitic fly larvae began attacking hatchlings of the Darwin finch a few years ago. |
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The white-collared seedeater, is a very small, black and white finch about 11 cm in total length. |
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If I told people that the reason for that was that I wanted to go back to the islands, stamp on a finch, behead a tortoise and garotte an iguana, they would assume I was a psychopath. |
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Different sound stimuli are used, including a corpus of zebra finch songs. |
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Using Ensembl we were able to identify the genes in the zebra finch genome and find the evolutionary relationships between zebra finch genes and those in other species. |
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Ecological correlates of morphological evolution in a Darwin's finch, Geospiza difficilis. |
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Some species, especially of arid zones, belonging to the pigeon, finch, mousebird, button-quail and bustard families are capable of sucking up water without the need to tilt back their heads. |
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A little away from the water interesting species such as the quail finch can be found while along the river, black coucal and black-bellied korhaan are common. |
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Well-known or interesting birds classified as finches include the bunting, canary, cardinal, chaffinch, crossbill, Galapagos finch, goldfinch, grass finch, grosbeak, sparrow, and weaver. |
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In a low tree I spotted a female chaffinch, which is one of the most common birds in Europe and is all but absent in Malta, owing to the country's widespread illegal finch trapping. |
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Keep your gaze skyward to spot noisy groups of crossbill, a chunky finch that usually flies at treetop height, fluttering from cone to cone to feed. |
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For example, some species of warblers and finch have declined steadily over the past few decades, while some ducks, the crow and some warblers have been increasing in numbers at the same time. |
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It takes a certain amount of training to set up and use, finch said. |
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While the Sierra rosy finch is the only bird native to the high Arctic region, other bird species such as the hummingbird and Clark's nutcracker. |
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The taxonomy of the finch family, in particular the cardueline finches, has a long and complicated history. |
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The mountain slopes and high woodlands also hold other species which aren't present in the UK, such as citril finch, alpine accentor, black woodpecker and alpine chough. |
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These declines were first noticed in North America, where they were initially attributed to the spread of the house finch, but have been most severe in Western Europe. |
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Ninety-two percent of the black-chinned hummingbird nests and 94 percent of house finch nests in the two study areas were found at sites near noisy compressors. |
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