The uses of these islands vary: Davids ' Island, the former location of the U. S. Army ’ s Fort Slocum, is currently unoccupied but is slated for use as passive parkland ; Glen Island is a County park for passive and active recreation ; Huckleberry Island is largely undeveloped and has one of the largest rookeries for some shore bird species in western Long Island Sound ; Columbia Island was the former site of CBS television broadcast antennas and is currently unoccupied ; Echo Island is used by a private yacht club ; Execution Rocks is the site of a 19th century lighthouse listed on the National Register of Historic Places ; Pea Island is owned by Huguenot Yacht Club but remains undeveloped ; Goose Island is undeveloped ; Clifford, Harrison and Tank Islands are part of a nature preserve and city park ; and Oak and Pine Islands are used as private residences.

The Knob is a local landmark: a rocky outcropping that overlooks Buzzards Bay and Quisset Harbor, a part of the privately owned Salt Pond bird sanctuaries.

On February 11, 2009, the Texas Department of State Health Services ordered the cessation of operations and full recall of all products produced by a Plainview-based peanut processing facility owned by Peanut Corporation of America, following the discovery of " dead rodents, rodent excrement and bird feathers in the plant ," and revelations that the plant had operated without state licensure or inspection.

Immediately upstream of the swimming pool, the river runs through Nunnery Lakes Reserve, a bird reserve owned and operated by the British Trust for Ornithology, whose headquarters are in the adjacent Nunnery buildings.

The island is now owned by the City of New York and is maintained by New York City Department of Parks and Recreation as a bird sanctuary.

His name is derived from " Redbird ", a synonym for the cardinal bird and for the Cardinals themselves. Fredbird in 1983. Fredbird was introduced in 1979 by the Cardinals, then owned by Anheuser-Busch, to entertain younger fans at the games.

The island is now owned by the City of New York and is maintained by New York City Department of Parks and Recreation as a bird sanctuary.

A bird in the hand is owned ; a bird in the bush is not.

The original Arby's store — with the distinctive round roof architecture — remains open as a bird seed store with a new Arby's right across the street on Route 224 near the Southern Park Mall, owned and operated by the now internationally-known chain.

Bellows Island, a low gravel island covered by shrubs and located near the middle of Northport Bay, is owned by the Nature Conservancy ; it is primarily known as a bird rookery, and is sometimes locally called Gull Island.

Lady Isle is owned by the Marquess of Ailsa and was for many years leased out as a bird sanctuary with a bird observatory and warden's post built and run by the Scottish Society for the Protection of Wild Birds ( SSPWB ).

Fleming, a keen bird watcher while living at his estate in Jamaica, owned the book.

Most species seem to prefer a ready-made hollow such as a deserted mouse nest, a bird house, or the hole made by a woodpecker ; ;

Suddenly, one of the birds fell down, hit by an arrow ; it was the male bird.

The Blue Crane is a tall, ground-dwelling bird, but is fairly small by the standards of the crane family.

When a man distinguished himself by deeds of valour, or any form of meritorious conduct, he was often decorated by a chief by being presented with the feathers of this bird.

A recent report ( 2006 ) by the NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, California, indicates that the increased rat presence on Clipperton Island has led to a decline in both crab and bird populations, causing a corresponding increase in both vegetation and coconut palms on the island.

* Earth diver creation in which a diver, usually a bird or amphibian sent by a creator, plunges to the seabed through a primordial ocean to bring up sand or mud which develops into a terrestrial world

Vicious sports an emaciated, embittered look, wields a katana for a weapon and is always accompanied by a strange, crow-like bird perched on his shoulder.

* The Vulture is a patient bird by James Hadley Chase refers to a ring that belonged to Borgia

As he was falling, Athena, who favors ingenuity, saw him falling and arrested his fate by changing him into a bird called after his name, perdix, the partridge.

In the following years, the bird was preyed upon by hungry sailors, their domesticated animals, and invasive species introduced during that time.

Along with the passage of the Endangered Species Act, the US ban on DDT is cited by scientists as a major factor in the comeback of the bald eagle, the national bird of the United States, from near-extinction in the contiguous US.

Eggshell thinning lowers the reproductive rate of certain bird species by causing egg breakage and embryo deaths.

James Gregory ( 1638 – 1675 ) observed the diffraction patterns caused by a bird feather, which was effectively the first diffraction grating to be discovered.

During his time at the museum he produced numerous publications on bird taxonomy, and in 1942 his first book, Systematics and the Origin of Species, which completed the evolutionary synthesis started by Darwin.

Depiction of bearded Emperor Jimmu with his emblematic long bow and an accompanying wild bird — artwork by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi ( 1839 – 1892 ).

This film includes a scene, preceded by the title " The thorns of jealousy ", in which a rejected woman overhears the man she loves with another woman, and this is followed by a fade to a shot of a pair of doves, which then dissolves into a shot of a bird of prey.

Fair Isle has a permanent bird observatory, founded by George Waterston in 1948.

Fair Isle was bought by the National Trust for Scotland in 1954 from George Waterston, the founder of the bird observatory.

Some eye protection products are rated to withstand impact from birdshot loads, which offers protection against irresponsible firearms use by other game bird shooters.

: Extirpation of native bird population by the rapid proliferation of the Brown tree snake ( Boiga irregularis ), an exotic species.

A record of a bird in 1852 is considered by some to be the last sighting of the species.

Prior to that, hunting by local natives can be documented from Late Stone Age Scandinavia and eastern North America, as well as from early 5th century Labrador, where the bird seems to have occurred only as a straggler.

* In his novel Ulysses, James Joyce mentions the bird while the novel's main character is drifting into sleep.

He associates the Great Auk with the mythical roc bird as a method of formally returning the main character to a sleepy land of fantasy and memory.

Fleming took the name for his character from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies ; Fleming, a keen birdwatcher himself, had a copy of Bond's guide and he later explained to the ornithologist's wife that " It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born ".

In Jacqueline Carey's novel Kushiel's Dart, during a grand ball, the main character — a masochist and submissive — dresses as a naked bird, as in the last scene of O.

If a bird, bat, and a winged insect were scored for the character, " presence of wings ", a homoplasy would be introduced into the dataset, and this would confound the analysis, possibly resulting in a false evolutionary scenario.

* Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, an animated character based on the bird

For example, when a character takes photographs with an instant camera, inside of the camera box, a bird carves the picture on a stone tablet with its beak.

On the original model sheet, Tweety was named Orson ( which was also the name of a bird character from an earlier Clampett cartoon Wacky Blackout ).

His monologues popularized several catchphrases, notably " Well, I'll be a dirty bird " ( spoken by the Kathy Bates character in the 1990 film Misery ), " You don't hardly get those any more " and " Well then there now " ( spoken by the James Dean character during a brief imitation of Gobel in the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause ).

The first replacement was (" human radical ") luo 倮, already used as a graphic variant character for (" clothing radical ") luo 裸 " naked "; the second was luo 罗 " bird net ; gauze ".

( 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.

The idea for chocobos may have come from Kyorochan, a character in television advertisements for Morinaga & Company's chocolate candy, which is also a bird with the call of " kweh ".

The generic name, Turdus, is the Latin for thrush, and the specific epithet refers to a character in Greek mythology, Philomela, who had her tongue cut out, but was changed into a singing bird.

Woody's character and design would evolve over the years, from an insane bird with an unusually garish design to a more refined looking and acting character in the vein of the later Chuck Jones version of Bugs Bunny.

Another example can be found in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe when the title character kills an unknown bird for food but finds " its flesh was carrion, and fit for nothing ".

The bird has been depicted on postage stamps in Palau and the Solomon Islands, and has also appeared as a character in Australian children's literature, such as Dot and the Kangaroo ( 1899 ), Blinky Bill Grows Up ( 1935 ), and Willie Wagtail and Other tales ( 1929 ).

Grace suggested that Walter use the bird for inspiration and make him into a cartoon character.

In the comic strip Doonesbury, Dick Davenport, a bird watcher and husband of a major character, died in 1986 due to a massive coronary brought on by observing and photographing this species.

" — The sound of Boot gobbling up something tasty, often something meant for another character, once the contents of a bird table.

The Red Grouse is widely known as the logo of The Famous Grouse whisky and an animated bird is a character in a series of its adverts.

" Because of the complexity of the 鰲 (" o ") character, and because crows were abundant in the area, the Japanese changed the name to 烏山, meaning " bird mountain.

* During the character introduction, the pets are given names: " Sasha " the bird, " Sonia " the duck, and " Ivan " the cat.