Sisters Lorna Owen and Kristy Sturgeon were out to have a great hen night to celebrate Lorna's impending nuptials. |
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A group of ten women are looking for a weekend break to celebrate a hen night. |
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These days, rather than carrying celebrities, the giant white cars usually contain a raucous hen night or office party. |
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In fact she celebrated her hen night in a local Italian restaurant, La Dolce Vita, in Groundwell Road, with 25 mates. |
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Cameras filmed several of his six stag nights and the hen night of his bride. |
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A fox had gotten into one of the chicken runs and killed a mother hen and five of her chicks. |
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While there was a hen party and a 21st birthday bash on this particular night, most of the Opry's visitors are not in the first flush of youth. |
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With their drab plumage, it is not unusual to mistake a gadwall for a hen mallard at a distance. |
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Lismore Lake provides a variety of habitat for swamp hen, ibis, egrets, and herons as well as many small waders. |
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There was even an ongoing carnival and lots of gangs of women on hen dos, wearing rubbish outfits, with even more rubbish shoes. |
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This contains a converted stone building giving three loose boxes, each with power, automatic water and auto feeders, as well as a hen house. |
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Add guinea hen jus, olives, artichokes, fennel and pearl onions and caramelize. |
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Egg-laying hens loiter near their hen house and sometimes into the flowerbed. |
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Stag and hen nights have become weekends and even whole weeks of debauchery and indulgence. |
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Recent winters have seen a variety of exciting birds on the reserve, including short-eared owls, hen harrier, peregrine falcon and snow bunting. |
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We held the hen night here at the house, so the men all left and went to have a braai somewhere else. |
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We are part of a hen party in the film, so we were singing, shouting and causing a riot basically. |
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Mother hen hatches her eggs in a farmyard and finds one of her baby chicks is a scrawny, ugly duck. |
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Chris, being the mother hen that he was, tried to force food upon the others the instant they got home. |
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It is difficult to imagine many other directors who could make a hen party want to go and see a Shakespeare play. |
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Charlton Heston makes an appearance that ends in disaster, so the ladies are left to carry on their hen party undisturbed. |
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Duramitex is a concentrate that needs diluting and is used to clean out pigeon lofts and hen houses. |
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The day after her hen party, the 23-year-old died instantly when a drag-racing drink-driver slammed into her cousin's car. |
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The young Japanese woman beside me is shaking with excitement, while the hen party to our left is screaming loud enough to raise the roof. |
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The hens took stage fright and skedaddled when Nancy tried to record some hen chatter. |
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The game hen was light, savory and the chestnut stuffing slightly sweet, and deliciously spiced. |
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The hen harrier is a bird of prey, belonging to the same family as hawks, vultures, and eagles. |
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She came in smiling then stopped hen she saw the deep puzzlement on her son's face. |
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Walkers will be on the lookout for birds such as short-eared owls, winter wildfowl and the elusive hen harrier. |
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Also within the wall would have been a well, latrines, a chapel, workshops, barns, pens for livestock, hen houses and perhaps other outbuildings. |
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My visit to the city was marred by all the British stag and hen parties clogging up the streets. |
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Farming hundreds of thousands of fish in tiny cages makes battery hen operations look positively organic by comparison. |
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One of my old poultry books recommends holding an egg bound hen in front of the fire! |
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Buzz is available for hire at children's parties, hen nights and even stag nights, although his exact role in the latter is unclear. |
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Three young hen pheasants on the roadway make me brake suddenly and almost come to a full stop. |
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If the hen doesn't have enough calcium, the eggs may be soft shelled and egg binding is more likely. |
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Having in the past catered for office weekends, hen and stag parties, and children's parties Fosseys are always open to new ideas. |
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As per traditional Indian thinking, seeing a brood of chickens along with a hen is a bad omen. |
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They will be on the lookout for birds such as short-eared owls, a variety of winter wildfowl and, hopefully, Bowland's elusive hen harriers. |
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We have some exceptionally rare birds there, like hen harriers, black grouse, and we are setting up an osprey platform. |
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The onion netting was still in place, but there was a large hen dropping right in the middle which indicated that all was not quite right. |
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The prominently depicted hen and rooster form the brightest spot in the foreground, as they are encircled by an aureole of light. |
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I told Sean and Samantha that they should bring water too, but they told me I was being a mother hen and disregarded me completely. |
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At only ten years old Lizzie was something of a mother hen with the rest of her siblings. |
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The enzyme, hen egg lysozyme, has not been shown to form fibrils in vivo, and only mutants have been associated with amyloid-related diseases. |
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So why cannot hen harriers, sparrowhawks and goshawks be controlled to protect lapwings, curlews, golden plovers and, yes, pheasants and grouse? |
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I promise to pull my socks up this week, not least because without urgent attention, fat hen threatens to strangle all my seedlings. |
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They also collected seagull eggs, fresh water lobster, whitebait, pipi, mussels, fat hen and watercress. |
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Plants we now consider to be weeds, such as nettles, dock, fat hen and meadowsweet, regularly appeared on the Iron Age menu. |
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The family on the farm had no idea the hen had gone back to nature and had been laying her eggs in a disused trough in the loft. |
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It is best to leave the broody hen with other hens for only one or two days. |
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Often a broody cockatiel hen ready to lay eggs will tear paper at the bottom of her cage to prepare a bare, hollow impression for her eggs. |
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Once the broody hen starts tending them, if you help her out by keeping stray eggs out. |
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Tragically it's beyond them to understand the instinct that will make even a domestic hen attack anyone coming between her and her chicks. |
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A typical farming village in this region attracts tree sparrows, black redstarts, gray partridge, skylarks, and hen harriers. |
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Apart from the grouse and the woodcock which gives the hill its name, it's a very important habitat for the hen harrier, which is very rare. |
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And you'll not hear a pig grunting or a hen cackling in many farmyards today. |
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The array of birds included a hen harrier, barn owls, kingfishers, sparrowhawks, long-eared owls, kestrels and woodpeckers. |
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Calamari, cob-fish, and mussel had intermediate concentrations, and sole, cuttle, frog-fish, scampi, and hen clam had the lowest concentrations. |
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More than 3.3 million Britons will attend a hen or stag night this year according to Morgan Stanley bank. |
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They said their blessings and feasted on a lovely meal of roasted hen and crisp vegetables and the warm bread that Emy had baked herself. |
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This will include using an abrasive material in the food troughs, which will wear down the sharp point of the beak as the hen feeds. |
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He found two dozen eggs that morning and one hen that was broody and wouldn't let him near her nest without threatening to peck him. |
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By such reckoning, three million men will go on stag sorties and three million women will go on hen happenings. |
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He was too busy stuffing a frozen hen with Brie, Rockford, goat cheese and spinach. |
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Other wintering species include little egret, spoonbill, hen harrier, merlin, peregrine, green sandpiper and common sandpiper. |
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In particular I am very concerned about the risk posed by the illegal use of poison to birds such as red kites, buzzards and hen harriers. |
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The hen harrier is a bird of prey and can be recognised by its long legs and broad wing span some also have a ruffle of feathers around the face. |
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In High Wood the ancient tenants had common of estovers, for which each paid annually with a hen or one shilling in lieu. |
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Feathers from an all-black hen also dust away negative influences, so you could maybe add some to the feathers already on the dreamcatcher? |
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The 5 bantam hens and one California white hen provide excellent grasshopper and slug control. |
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In early spring the turkey hen began to lay and when she had 12-15 eggs laid around St. Patrick's Day they began to hatch. |
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The hen usually lays two eggs, which she incubates for about 24 days until they hatch. |
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A big raptor flew low and light over the scene under the open sky, a hen harrier, a heavy-duty killer. |
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The tracking also showed that a peregrine falcon took a juvenile hen harrier fledged from one of the eight successful nests. |
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She is shown from the back crossing a field of hay carrying a laundry-laden basket with the added surprise of a flushed hen pheasant in the distance. |
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But the 150-plus delegates gathering at Newton Rigg College are expected to be told that the outlook is bleak for the hen harrier and golden eagles. |
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Perhaps the most damning fact is that there are no breeding golden eagles, hen harriers or red kites on what should be prime breeding habitat for those species. |
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He eventually brings his wife and children over, and later he manages a hen and rabbit farm. |
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Tourists huddled around maps and a hen party had started to gather nearby. |
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With the booming city of Kilkenny less than a 90-minute train journey from Dublin, the makings of a hen party to remember are on the group's doorstep. |
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The two had obtained their flowers from a passing hen party. |
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A hen party is in the house and predatory males start to gather. |
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She shooed away a hen that had wandered too close to the crib. |
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Ever since then I've been more of a mother hen to him than anything else. |
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I don't have much experience of a broody hen sitting on the eggs. |
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He worried over her like a mother hen clucking over her chicks. |
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The first hen was large and good, and the second was a fair spurred bird. |
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Mick Greenwood took the award for the best hen class while the prize for the best stag went to Jake Walford and the pullet class winner was Dewi Jones. |
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Apart from promoting food crops the papers at the time were full with reports of poteen making, hen stealing and, even in two cases, of people stealing potatoes from fields. |
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The negative association between the two ectoparasites suggests that hen fleas could impose selection pressures on the evolution of Protocalliphora life history traits. |
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The eight endangered species of birds are common scoter, hen harrier, grey partridge, corncrake, red-necked phalarope, nightjar, roseate tern and corn bunting. |
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The RSPB reports that, despite the upturns in the fortune of many birds of prey in recent years, the hen harrier remains a seriously threatened species. |
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Astrid was one of a handful of guests at the Duchess of Cambridge's hen night party last year. |
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International cuisine uses the eggs of other birds, including ducks, geese, sparrows, quails and ostriches, but it is the hen that has been universally domesticated. |
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He tells Harding that the session reminded him of a pecking party, where a group of hens, seeing a spot of blood on one of their number, will peck that hen to death. |
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A hen in a basket pokes her head out to drink from a chipped crock. |
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The fern most prized by the Maori was Asplenium bulbiferum, the hen and chicken fern, so called because of its habit of producing new plants on the old fronds. |
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It describes the Birdman who covers his plot in hen houses and pigeon lofts, but also makes room for drain pipes in which he grows his prize-winning carrots. |
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A note pinned to the fridge has a hen and a pan on fire drawn on it. |
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He's Jimmy Bly, a tow-headed, blue-eyed youngster with a protective, over-bearing, pugnacious older brother Demille who serves as his manager and mother hen. |
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She installed it in the hen house so that the chickens would eat more, be healthy, lay more eggs, and be more profitable. |
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This darling chocolate-making kitchen is perfect for hen parties or corporate escapes. |
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A smartly cut, nubby grey dress is finished off with a flirty feathery hemline, while a fabulous brown flared skirt got a lift from a spray of guinea hen feathers. |
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My barred rock hen is probably one of my favorite chickens ever! |
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The jumbotron was set up facing Alma Mater, the crowds nestled round her like chicks round a bronze mother hen. |
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I thought to myself that the top of this hen didn't look like a female woody to me, but then again I have never really looked at a hen wood duck from this angle. |
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He even claims that hen partridges conceive just by smelling the scent of males. |
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Possum, 'roo, and, now and then, Wallaby and native hen, Bandicoot and pretty quoll Are added to the mounting toll. |
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A male duck is called a drake and the female is called a duck, or in ornithology a hen. |
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Imagine SXSW without the spring breakers and tacos but with hen parties and fish 'n' chips. |
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Combining a subdominant quarter-strut jake with a ready-to-breed hen is the ultimate way to raise the ire of all gobblers. |
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The hen harrier is a bird of open habitats such as heather moorland and extensive agriculture. |
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In fact some bars are encouraging hen and stag nights to come into their premises. |
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That means no blurted-out confessions, as well as no more hen nights with your mum-in-law. |
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They then have to prepare speeches, make outfits and stage stag and hen nights in readiness for Wednesday's ceremony. |
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The research for Teletext however suggests hen and stag parties are now becoming more organised and virtually mini holidays. |
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Where forests replace habitats that were used by hen harriers they will therefore tend to reduce overall habitat availability. |
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The new groups and specialist sales team will look after business ranging from school and college groups to hen and stag weekend celebrations. |
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Gary's unusual shot captured the happy couple in front of a hen house that once belonged to Sarah's great grandparents. |
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The uplands support black and red grouse, mountain hares, raptors such as golden eagles and hen harriers, and some unusual plant species. |
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The islands also provide a habitat for other important species such as corncrake, hen harrier, golden eagle and otter. |
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Plan an unforgettable hen night to show your girlfriends how much you appreciate them. |
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Birds of prey include the merlin, hen harrier and the red kite, a national symbol of Welsh wildlife. |
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Guests included Lady Godiva Pru Porretta and the Lord Mayor of Coventry Hazel Noonan, and even a hen party was held there. |
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The small chicks resemble the hen in their cryptic colouration, which is a passive protection against predators. |
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As long as the young chicks cannot fly the hen spends the night with them in dense cover on the ground. |
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All eggs hatch in close proximity after which the hen and clutch abandon the nest where they are at their most vulnerable. |
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In cold and rainy weather the chicks need to get warmed by the hen every few minutes and all night. |
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Sporting a shorter barrel for faster reed action, the double-reed is the bossiest hen you ever met. |
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It's Liz's hen night and as the booze flows the women start to gossip about what good kissers their men are. |
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While many taxonomic authorities split the northern harrier and the hen harrier into distinct species, others consider them conspecific. |
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In winter, the hen harrier is a bird of open country, and will then roost communally, often with merlins and marsh harriers. |
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Northern or hen harriers hunt primarily small mammals, as do most harriers. |
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They were hit ead-on by the hen 19-year-old oparan, who was overking at 70mph on a 0mph road when he mashed into Cerys's arents' car. |
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In the United Kingdom, however, hen harrier populations are in a critical condition, due to habitat loss and illegal killing on grouse moors. |
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Most domestic ducks neglect their eggs and ducklings, and their eggs must be hatched under a broody hen or artificially. |
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My own experience is that on the moors there are plenty of meadow pipits, but almost no hen harriers. |
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Process development for the removal of hazardous anionic azo dye Congo red from wastewater by using hen feather as potential adsorbent. |
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I have noticed Blackpool is the capital of the country when it comes to stag dos and hen parties. |
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The area has become popular among tourists, including stag and hen parties from Britain. |
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Trouble At The Top HAVE you heard about the woman who booked a Buck's Fizz tribute act for her hen party? |
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Deputy manager Emma Phillips has become Buffy's foster mum and keeps the hen in a luxury nestbox at the centre's chicken shed. |
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But most people don't realise that the majority of chickens we eat are actually allocated less space than a hen in a battery cage. |
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Then, while the hen runs a circle around him with lowered wings, he will wind his head in a spiral motion. |
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If it be winter, or settled wet weather, the hen must, if possible, be kept indoors, or else be cooped under a dry shed or outhouse. |
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Our hen nights involved dressing up the bride, doing a pub crawl and then going clubbing. |
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The women thought it would be quite a giggle to have a strippergram at the bride's hen party. |
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It is even possible to employ a stag or hen party planner to help organise it all. |
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I was the only one of her college friends to attend the hen party, which I enjoyed. |
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The door of the women's room had a paper plate with a hen turkey thumbtacked to it. |
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The guinea hen, so nearly exsiccated a few days earlier, dangles limp once again, as wet as if it had been freshly slaughtered. |
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In the Forest of Bowland and other upland areas, the hen harrier is under threat from illegal persecution. |
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The chicks stay near the hen for several weeks, yet leave the nest when only a few hours old. |
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The RSPB is asking people who spend time in the Peak District and the Pennine moors to keep their eyes peeled for hen harriers. |
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The LIFE project focuses on the protection of hen harriers from illegal persecution. |
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A one-H heathen does not pray, A two-H heath hen flies away, But I'll bet my cousin Ethan you never saw a three-H heathhhen. |
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Even now hardly a week goes by hen we do not learn of yet another bishop equivocating when faced with possible clergy abuse. |
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Consequently, the third person plural forms hun and hen are interchangeable in normal usage, with hun being more common. |
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Some predators such as the hen harrier feed on grouse and there is ongoing controversy as to what effect these have on grouse numbers. |
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Canterbury Lace is a great-granddaughter of blue hen Sunbittern and so related to celebrities such as Dubawi, High-Rise and In The Wings. |
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There is also a well outside the rear door and outbuildings including three earth closets, a hen house and the remains of a pig sty. |
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The hen harrier is a species of European conservation concern and is listed in Annex I of the Birds Directive. |
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We had accommodation for golfing parties, hen and stag weekends, jazzers at the long gone Jazz festival, wedding parties and wedding venues. |
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Big power in a small package, the single-reed Ace can blaze out a string of beak-breaking quacks faster than an irritated hen fighting over the last kernel of corn in Canada. |
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A penguin or a clucking hen logically might satisfy the ascertainable criteria of birdness but remain somehow inapt for excavating focal meanings. |
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Diazinon and carbaryl induce micromelia and abnormal feathering in hen eggs, but different skeletal defects have been noted for diazinon in bobwhite quail embryos. |
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A BRIDE-to-be, whose hen party ended in tragedy when her cousin died of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning, has vowed to go ahead with her wedding. |
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They fear rare birds including buzzards, hen harriers, golden plovers and curlews could be at serious risk if wind farms continue to be built in nesting areas. |
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Grouse are farmed in the area and hen harriers can be seen frequently. |
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But, over recent years, the spectacle of the hen harrier sailing effortlessly through the frozen landscape like a giant, sleepy moth has become increasingly difficult to find. |
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Dennis and I saw turkey and deer tracks on the sand bars, a hen wood duck with hatchlings, numerous black-belly whistling ducks in the tree cavities. |
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A short way into the walk, off to the side, is what was once a fishing lake and now a haven for water lilies, and nesting swans, herons, ducks and water hen. |
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Leah Gilbert Platt, 36, thinks hen parties are a big waste of time. |
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The law of averages says it will be one hen and one cockerel. |
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Britons are spending more than pounds 300 million a year on stag and hen nights, with men forking out twice as much as women to have a final fling before their wedding. |
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When a hen shows signs of broodiness remove her to the sitting-room. |
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Certain livestock were typical and unique to the Vikings, including the Icelandic horse, Icelandic cattle, a plethora of sheep breeds, the Danish hen and the Danish goose. |
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About three days after copulation the hen starts laying eggs. |
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Kirkcaldy THE pictures of the freed battery hen Liberty made me smile. |
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Unlike many raptors, hen harriers have historically been favorably regarded by farmers because they eat predators of quail eggs and mice that damage crops. |
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A survey has found just four breeding pairs of hen harriers in England. |
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I call birds in during the fall, and getting a longbeard or even a hen within bow range by calling is much more difficult in the fall than it is in the spring. |
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He came into my area with a hen and a jake, and those three milled around for almost an hour before the gobbler started to get close to my shooting lane. |
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After hatching the chicks are dependent on getting warmed by the hen. |
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Heather should be celebrating as she prepares for her hen night, but instead she comes down with a serious case of cold feet after Andrew comes clean about his past. |
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Revellers will spend pounds 532m on hen and stag nights this year, often travelling abroad for wild weekends, according to research published today. |
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It is all to easy to lose sight of the big picture as thousands of people flock in at the weekends for stag nights, hen nights or just drinking sessions. |
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As part of this officers are meeting hen and stag parties as they arrive in the city to remind them of the standards of behaviour expected of them. |
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The long, skewerlike dagger flashed and fell. The dealer struggled like a hen, striking his temple on the shelf, and then tumbled on the floor in a heap. |
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This assimilates them more nearly to the natural conditions when the hen nestles her chicks on the earth, whilst the warmth is given chiefly over their backs. |
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Little information is available on longevity in hen harriers. |
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