The boughs of a gumbo-limbo tree drooped low with roosting chachalacas, dark, chicken-size birds renowned for their remarkable singing style. |
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The Grassquit resides in small flocks and likes to use empty bananaquit nests for roosting at night. |
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There has been a rash of sightings of elephants roosting in trees that has left authorities shaken and dazed. |
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As it was dark, the storks were sleeping safely in their high roosting places on the tall pillars of the aqueduct. |
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Some of them roost so very close together, and other birds like the curlews like roosting about a metre apart. |
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All the big trees that the bats are roosting on now are to be covered by nets to prevent birds from flying out of the new aviary. |
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This group has a great diversity of roosting habits, including caves, hollow logs, tree branches, tunnels, and human houses. |
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After each trial, lights were used again to entice birds back to the roosting aviary. |
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When you are scouting an area, a GPS is the perfect tool for mapping and relocating roosting areas and routes. |
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The tide has driven multitudes of waders onto the shell and shingle banks, where a long line of roosting birds shuffles restlessly. |
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We transferred the birds to the second roosting aviary and we counted the number of unconsumed maggots left on the foraging platform. |
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They milk the cows, feed the calves, slop the pigs, and check the roosting hens before sitting down to tea in their own kitchen. |
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Frigatebirds are noted soarers, spending much of the day riding the winds and roosting at night on trees or cliffs. |
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In April 2001, the vocalizations of five females roosting in a nest box in the recreation area in Fort 8 in Hoboken were recorded on minidisc. |
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Parrotlets were captured in mist nets at roosting sites and in the vicinity of nest boxes, or were trapped in the nest box while feeding young. |
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The dawn chorus further stimulates my waking senses as did the roosting of the rooks at the previous dusk, a building of rooks some say. |
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I would have a couple of fallow pigs for big celebrations, and a few chickens scratching around on the ground and roosting on my porch. |
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New home builders are recommended to build chimney structures suitable for chimney swift roosting. |
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The peacock, together with a peahen, flew into Peasehill Close last July and quickly took to roosting on the tops of greenhouses and garages. |
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Once inside, roosting wrens squat up to two or three layers deep with heads facing inwards and tails towards the entrance or sides. |
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They are swift in flight, but are more commonly seen roosting or foraging on the ground. |
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Holes in the canopy had left the roosting insects prey to the frosty nights. |
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Further on, a brood of new-from-the-box Wood Ducks sat on a deadfall, with Mama Duck roosting on one end. |
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And evolution of any management strategy requires knowledge on depredatory birds' feeding guild structure, breeding and roosting ecology. |
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Faced with the blank white page, I tried to visualize the knoll where I sat, gazing across a broad area of the river to a point where some birds were roosting. |
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Cracids are arboreal birds, nesting, roosting and foraging in the trees. |
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Those koa trees will do more than just provide roosting sites for birds, they'll also help capture moisture, raising the air temperature near them by as much as 5 degrees. |
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The loud cackle of the roosting birds on the trees disturbed her thought. |
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A gaggle of ibis roosting in a nearby tree hooted fearfully. |
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We often see various species of birds roosting between the leaves, picking on the sweet dates and taunting the small boys below who can't reach the nests. |
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The estuaries and salt marshes of the Solway Firth, in southwest Scotland, are feeding and roosting grounds for many thousands of wintering wildfowl. |
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My foot encountered a twig, and it snapped loudly in my hearing, causing a flock of black creatures that had been roosting in a neighboring tree to take wing. |
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The mountain streams are usually at low to subalpine elevations within a closed forest canopy, and have midstream gravel bars or rocks for roosting. |
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Some facultatively hypothermic species alleviate this cost by group roosting on the nest, but this adaptation has not led to the evolution of joint laying. |
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I hesitated outside, listening to the spooky sounds of the pigeons roosting under the roof, but my dinner companions called me a coward and yanked open the door. |
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He spread his wings and flew to a tree, roosting on a branch. |
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Mergansers and scoters commute between feeding and roosting areas on the sea, and occasionally a great crested grebe, or auk batters past. |
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The presence of the buoys may affect fish, marine mammals, and birds as potential minor collision risk and roosting sites. |
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It has been estimated that about two million birds a year use the Wash for feeding and roosting during their annual migrations. |
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Due to their relatively small and lightweight bodies, bats are not at risk of blood flow rushing to their heads when roosting. |
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To conserve energy, heterothermic bats during long migrations may go into a torpid state while roosting in the daytime, and flying at night. |
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Also in Hogsmeade is a calm resting area called The Owlery where roosting owls await their next delivery. |
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Presumably, Fischer would rather be roosting home in Cambridge, Mass. |
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But the European red-legged partridge, very common in France, is often found roosting in trees. |
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Without the murder of crows roosting in its branches, Nevermore Tree looked as bare as a skeleton. |
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The other key tool, a noisemaker attached to a propane tank, lets off explosive sounds intermittently and is aimed at preventing birds from roosting at the airport. |
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Cliffs and rock ledges are used for roosting and breeding in the wild. |
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It is solitary for most of the year, roosting alone in heavy cover. |
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Calls differ between roosting groups and may arise from vocal learning. |
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The griffon vulture is a gregarious bird often roosting in flocks. |
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Bats are adapted to roosting, hanging upside down from their feet. |
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Pintail, Wigeon and Teal were numerous around Malltraeth Cob Pools and a male Sparrowhawk harassed the Common Snipe roosting amongst the tussocks at the water margins. |
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The other ornithological spectacle here in Glasgow is an unusually large and unexpectedly early flock of waxwings, roosting on the trees around Buchanan Street bus station. |
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