The Blue Crane ( Anthropoides paradiseus ), also known as the Stanley Crane and the Paradise Crane, is the national bird of South Africa.

They will also visit ground-level bird baths.

The coyote will also target any species of bird that nests on the ground.

They also commonly eat grass, shoots, and many other forms of plant matter, as well as fungi, insects and other arthropods, small frogs, worms, and bird eggs.

Chipmunks play an important role as prey for various predatory mammals and birds, but are also opportunistic predators themselves, particularly with regard to bird eggs and nestlings.

The island hosts introduced bird species from many different regions, including Cattle Egrets ( Bubulcus ibis ), Indian Barred Ground Dove, also called the Zebra Dove ( Geopelia striata ), Turtle Dove ( Streptopleia picturata ), Indian Mynah ( Acridotheres tristis ), Madagascar Fody ( Foudia madagascariensis ), and chickens ( Gallus gallus ).

In New Guinea, Mayr collected several thousand bird skins ( he named 26 new bird species during his lifetime ) and, in the process also named 38 new orchid species.

Though an egg appears to be like the stone of a tomb, a bird hatches from it with life ; similarly, the Easter egg, for Christians, is a reminder that Jesus rose from the grave, and that those who believe will also experience eternal life.

A common toy that is also a heat engine is a drinking bird.

" arpa or harpa " from ancient Greek verb ἅρπῶ " arpo or harpo " meaning grasp, catch or snatch modern Greek αρπάζω ( arpazo or harpazo ), also ancient Greek ἅρπη ( arpe or harpe ) harpy meaning Vulture eagle-like bird, modern greek αρπακτικό ( arpactico or harpactico ).

On December 29, 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt transferred control of Johnston Atoll to the United States Navy in order to establish an air station, and also to the Department of the Interior to administer the bird refuge.

The main diet of most lorisids consists of insects, but they also consume bird eggs and small vertebrates as well as fruits and sap.

In this feature, Adrian Shine of the Loch Ness Centre was also interviewed and suggested that the footage showed an otter, seal or water bird.

Well known examples of his work also include Drawing Hands, a work in which two hands are shown, each drawing the other ; Sky and Water, in which light plays on shadow to morph the water background behind fish figures into bird figures on a sky background ; and Ascending and Descending, in which lines of people ascend and descend stairs in an infinite loop, on a construction which is impossible to build and possible to draw only by taking advantage of quirks of perception and perspective.

However, some species exhibit sex-role reversed behavior in which it is males that are most selective in mate choice ; the best-known examples of this pattern occur in some fishes of the family Syngnathidae, though likely examples have also been found in amphibian and bird species.

Deucalion also sends a pigeon to find out about the situation of the world and the bird return with an olive branch.

Fruit is the most important component of an orangutan's diet, however, the apes will also eat vegetation, bark, honey, insects and even bird eggs.

It is also home to more than 240 plants, 26 of which are endemic, and 50 bird species, including the critically endangered Puerto Rican Amazon ( Amazona vittata ).

Polyandry also occurs in some primates such as marmosets, mammal groups, the marsupial genus ' Antechinus and bandicoots, around 1 % of all bird species, such as jacanas, insects such as honeybees, and fish such as pipefish.

Caponization also affects the disposition of the bird.

The understanding of the divine spiritual endowment of the rooster within Islam, may be evidenced in the words of Muhammad of that Abrahamic religion in one of the six canonical hadith collections of Sunni Islam, stating that of " when you hear the crowing of cocks, ask for Allah's Blessings for they have seen an angel " as well as the mention where " the cock is also venerated in Islam: it was the giant bird seen by Muhammad in the First Heaven crowing.

The logo artwork was also subtly altered, with an arched eyebrow and a forward-facing pupil suggesting a more aggressive-looking bird.

Communicating through infantile gibberish or babbling, the Teletubbies were designed to bear resemblance to actual toddlers dwelling within a beautiful, grassy floral landscape that is also populated by rabbits with bird calls audible in the background.

It is the national bird of the United States of America and appears on its Seal.

A bird that had been associated with Hera on an archaic level, where most of the Aegean goddesses were associated with " their " bird, was the cuckoo, which appears in mythic fragments concerning the first wooing of a virginal Hera by Zeus.

An albatross appears and leads them out of the Antarctic but, even as the albatross is praised by the ship's crew, the Mariner shoots the bird (" with my cross-bow / I shot the albatross ").

The Garuda ( Sanskrit: गर ु ड, " eagle ") is a large mythical bird or bird-like creature that appears in both Hindu and Buddhist mythology.

Michael W. Holmes points out that early Christian writers justified their use of this myth because the word appears in Psalm 92: 12 ( LXX Psalm 91: 13 ), but in that passage it actually refers to a palm tree, not a mythological bird.

The Simurgh appears in Iranian literary classics such as Farid ud-Din Attar's Conference of the Birds as instructor and birds leader, and in Ferdowsi's epic Shahnameh ( The Book of Kings ), in which also the Huma bird appears as the presumed " bird of paradise ".

The Black Swan is featured on the flag, and is both the state and bird emblem, of Western Australia ; it also appears in the Coat of Arms and other iconography of the state's institutions.

From the best available information, it appears that the English Setter was a trained bird dog in England more than 400 years ago.

Although she appears as one of the series ' major villains, she is frequently a source of comic relief: In Magica's final scene in the series for example, she attempts to send Scrooge's " tin man back to OZ ", but is herself sent elsewhere in a whirlwind when a Quackenyeeken Yeeker bird yeeks in fear, causing her jar of magic dust to break open and carry her away.

It appears on the coat of arms, various coins, features prominently in Indigenous Australian mythology, and hundreds of places are named after the bird.

A fragment of Callimachus ' Aitia (" Origins ") appears to ask, " Why, at Sicyon, is it the hoopoe, and not the usual " splendid ravens ", that is the bird of good omen?

Fand appears in the Ulster Cycle tale, Serglige Con Culainn ( The Sickbed of Cúchulainn ) first as an otherworldly sea bird, and later as an avenging goddess ( or " Woman of the Otherworld ).

She appears in the Irish tale Serglige Con Culainn ( The Wasting Sickness of Cú Chulainn ), first as a sea bird, and then as an avenging goddess.

In his bird avatar, god D here appears as the creator god bestowing rulership on a king.

Gertrude in some sense appears to typify a baleful Earth Mother ; ponderous and heavy, loving and cruel by turns, impassive of her own child, tender to her bird and cats, she is " the Countess Gertrude of huge clay ".

( whose pilot aired in 2007 and series began in 2008 ), the character of Gary, who always appears with a small yellow bird on his shoulder, is an allusion to Robert Stroud.

When swimming in this style the name Snakebird is apparent, since only the colored neck appears above water the bird looks like a snake ready to strike.

In New Zealand, there appears to be a limited detrimental effect on some invertebrates due to predation by introduced bird species, and the Song Thrush also damages commercial fruit crops in that country.

The bird often appears restless with much ruffling of the wings and shifting around on its perch.