Losses occur, however, when the unattended eggs are taken by crows or ravens, or when nesting birds are disturbed by humans. |
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The two black ravens perching on the bushes in the center foreground were symbols of death. |
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We might even be able to give the crows, ravens and swallows a little competition. |
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Stone Age communities sometimes exposed their dead instead of burying them and ravens picked the bones clean. |
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Eagles, vultures, penguins, ravens, crows, doves, and ostriches are just a few of the birds that do double time as species and symbols. |
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The same God who sent ravens to feed his prophet had used the most unlikely person in the town to meet our need. |
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One or two gritstone quarries provide important nesting sites for peregrines and ravens. |
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Long-eared Owls usually nest in abandoned stick nests, often the nests of magpies, crows, ravens, or hawks. |
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Crows belong to the family of corvids, which also includes rooks, jays, ravens and jackdaws. |
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Many ravens were seen and heard but the highlight of the trip was seeing the reindeer and moose. |
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The corvids of North America consist of one species of jackdaw, four crows, two ravens, one nutcracker, two magpies, and ten species of jays. |
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The black ravens which you find in the Tower of London have their wings clipped. |
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He positioned himself for the endgame, unleashing that Batman-esque unkindness of ravens which smashed into the square. |
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Crows can be aggressive toward other birds, mobbing ravens or raptors in flight. |
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A skull rests on the threshold as a reminder of the wages of sin, and, above, an unkindness of ravens presides. |
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This pattern suggests an inherent love of novelty, or neophilia, which I documented in young ravens as an adaptation for finding new food. |
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Birds of prey, crows, ravens, and raccoons try to steal their eggs and chicks. |
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While desert predators, particularly ravens and coyotes, can't do much damage to adults, they can easily penetrate the shells of young tortoises. |
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More interestingly, ravens seem to know when other ravens are checking them out, and are able to dissemble and deceive. |
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Carcasses left by wolves supply food for scavengers such as ravens, eagles, magpies, and wolverines. |
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The primary predators of eggs and goslings at the study site are herring gulls, parasitic jaegers, ravens and Arctic foxes. |
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The room belongs to two women with dark, cap-like hair who dress in black and walk among their furnishings like ravens in a hueless meadow. |
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Put bluntly, these birds, which include crows, ravens, magpies, and jays, can be real jerks. |
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It is also time that we must take greater care in managing our garbage from ravenous dogs and ravens. |
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As the tarantass nears the wattled corral, the watchful ravens stir from their perches. |
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Well-adapted to urban environments, grackles, crows, ravens, blackbirds, and jays thrive everywhere we do. |
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And out of the trees came great black ravens, hundreds of them, croaking like peals of doom. |
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Above the tree line, alpine accentors, alpine choughs and shorelarks, as well as water pipits, ravens and golden eagles, are found. |
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Jet-black ravens squawked in the churchyard and storm-grey pigeons cooed in the park. |
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For example, Heinrich's work with ravens shows that the carnivorous birds will store bits of meat only for the short term. |
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Common ravens were seen removing whole eggs from five nests attended by female Steller's eiders. |
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Any of the above, as well as weasels, lemmings, some hawks, ravens, Canada jays, and gulls will scavenge caribou carcasses. |
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The brain-to-body ratio of crows, ravens and magpies equals that of dolphins and nearly matches humans. |
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Grouse, ravens and buzzards may be seen, and red deer are common. |
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The unkindness of ravens at the Tower of London is about to enjoy the kindness of taxpayers, in a move designed to improve the birds' accommodation. |
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There are 113 members of the avian family called Corvidae, or corvids, which includes crows, jackdaws, rooks, ravens, as well as jays, nutcrackers and magpies. |
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Moose, elks, black bears, wolves, pumas, groundhogs, squirrels, beavers, whisky jacks, sandhill cranes, ravens and bald eagles are seen frequently. |
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The little faeries dived from the ceiling like a cloud of black ravens. |
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In April, the three young and healthy ravens were marked by an ornithologist with rings. |
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We were asked by an ornithologist organisation to take special care, as ravens are a protected species. |
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Little Jakob was first excited to see an unkindness of ravens. |
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Large amounts of rubbish in the streets and round buildings attracted scavenging birds such as gulls, buzzards, ravens and red kites when things were quiet. |
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In the daring era of the early aviators, Wilbur and Orville Wright were ravens in a sky full of bluebirds. |
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The list of wildlife that you encounter are varied: the porcupine, ravens, raptors, waders on the beach, wading birds and a flock of seagulls. |
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Peregrine falcons, common ravens, crag martins, house martins and buntings nest in the cliffs. |
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For example, it is necessarily true that all ravens can be black, but it is only a matter of contingent fact that all ravens examined have been black. |
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By helping their competitors, the ravens appeared to be defying all natural biological instinct. |
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By inviting other ravens to join them, their intrusion was more likely to go unchallenged. |
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However it's unclear whether the bats or even Heinrich's ravens are consciously choosing to behave in this manner. |
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They will steal fish from other terns and are often the victims of similar piracy by gulls and even crows and ravens. |
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The Health Unit invites the public to report any sightings of dead crows, ravens and blue jays. |
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A flock of ravens may indicate the presence of an animal carcass, and possibly a bear. |
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They defend the immediate nest site against other Peregrines, and often against eagles or ravens. |
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Raise your brood, hatch the eggs, and keep the ravens from stealing your chickens. |
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The Corvidae family of birds such as crows, blue and grey jays, ravens and magpies are particularly susceptible to illness and death from West Nile Virus. |
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Carrion is laid out to attract the feathered carnivores, and regular diners include whitenecked ravens, lanner falcons, jackal buzzards, black eagles and cape vultures. |
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The shapes of killer whales, turtles, grizzly bears, ravens and beavers are based on real animals, while thunderbirds and double-headed serpents were invented. |
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With the atmosphere successfully in place you'll find yourself uncomfortably wriggling in your seat long before the ravens start to appear in the attic. |
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Bare and open to the merciless view of the afternoon sky, silent and unwatched by all save the ravens, the pit revealed its truths of the men who had gathered there. |
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Goraks are large Himalayan birds that look remarkably like ravens. |
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Roman legend claims that ravens were once as white as swans and roughly the same size, but one day a raven told Apollo that Coronis whom he passionately loved, was faithless. |
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The former, for example, is characterised by the mention of ravens, eagles, and wolves preceding particularly violent depictions of battle. |
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Orkney has an abundance of wildlife, especially of grey and common seals and seabirds such as puffins, kittiwakes, tysties, ravens, and bonxies. |
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Predators of eggs and nestlings include raccoons, skunks, badgers, foxes, crows and ravens, dogs and owls. |
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The odour of urine and rotting food emanating from the denning area often attracts scavenging birds such as magpies and ravens. |
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Species such as buzzards, peregrine falcons, northern wheatears, ravens, gulls, auks, Manx shearwaters and guillemots all call the island home. |
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Overhead, ravens perform mid-air tumbling tricks. |
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Predation on eggs and young birds by crows, ravens, owls, gulls, and raccoons does not usually happen unless human activity has disturbed the parents. |
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The birds have powerful beaks and fan shaped tails, indicating that they are ravens. |
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Other predators include large gulls, jaegers, ravens, and sometimes bears. |
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The Eastern Ontario Health Unit only collects crows, ravens and blue jays for testing as these birds are more susceptible to contract the disease and are more likely to die. |
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Legend maintains that should the ravens ever leave the Tower, the White Tower will fall and disaster will befall the kingdom. |
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Additionally, as carrion, reindeer may be scavenged opportunistically by foxes, hawks and ravens. |
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Like Snorri's Prose Edda description of the ravens, a bird is sometimes depicted at the ear of the human, or at the ear of the horse. |
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Humphrey turned the wagon around, noticing the ravens that lined the road. Pruck, pruck, pruck. |
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A raven cawed somewhere up ahead, and its cry was answered by others, an unkindness of ravens on all sides. |
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Ducks, geese and swans, waders and more unusual birds like kingfishers, ravens, crossbills and water rails, all take advantage of the reserve. |
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A group of ravens had gathered to feed on a dead moose. |
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But rather than choosing to keep the bounty for themselves, they were making a strange call, one which seemed to be deliberately attracting more ravens to the feast. |
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He had become famous largely for chronicling a Europe that had been swept away, and had spent a charmed life without a regular job, fed as he liked to put it like Elijah, by the ravens. |
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An egg may be dislodged from a narrow ledge, especially if birds are disturbed and fly off in panic, or if gulls or ravens swoop in to steal the egg. |
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Some birds stay, like ravens, snowy owls and ptarmigan. |
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He dreams of spring and wakes to cawing ravens. |
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The other day I asked if it was all right if I shot some crows. I asked if you are allowed to shoot crows or ravens if they are pestering your calves during calving time. |
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She snared more ravens and made clothes out of their skins. |
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It is also the home of red kites, buzzards, dippers, peregrine falcons and ravens, with seasonal visits from ring ouzels and redstarts. |
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A superstition analogous to that of the ravens at the Tower of London states that if the apes ever leave, so will the British. |
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So I can't tell the difference anymore between crows and ravens. |
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Over the years I have spotted in my yard scores of sparrows, phoebes, warblers, towhees, plus of course ravens and those awful starlings. |
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At least six ravens are kept at the Tower at all times, in accordance with the belief that if they are absent, the kingdom will fall. |
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Rare species such as marsh harriers, ravens, buzzards, storks and stone curlews had also shown increases, probably due to conservation efforts. |
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Mother Nature is a harsh mistress, but there's nothing natural about the way common ravens have decimated the struggling desert tortoise. |
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The birds that prey on pigeons in North America can range in size from American kestrels to golden eagles and can even include gulls, crows, and ravens. |
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The percentage of pair bonds that break ranges from nearly 100, in house martins and greater flamingos, to roughly zero in Australian ravens and the waved albatross. |
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Just bald eagles, golden eagles, pronghorn antelope, mule deer, elk, quail, prairie falcons, coyotes, chukars, gopher snakes, ravens and great horned owls, to name a few. |
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While attempting to remain as true to history as possible, I created a world of witches and wizards, earthdrakes and talking ravens, according to my imagination. |
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Species represented at the sites include ravens, crows, rooks, magpies, jackdaws, various types of eagle and vulture, red and black kites, kestrels and falcons. |
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In order to prevent the ravens from flying away, their flight feathers are trimmed so that they cannot fly in a straight line for any appreciable distance. |
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Vignettes in this collection feature songbirds that hang out in parking lots, ravens that cavort on airport tarmacs, and a rare spotted redshank visiting Brooklyn. |
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