Consequently, while a bird may jump into the air to initiate flight, no movement it performs once airborne is considered jumping, as the initial jump conditions no longer dictate its flight path.

Avalerion is a bird claimed in mediaeval European texts to live near India, which drowns itself once it has laid its eggs.

The island was the last refuge of the Heath Hen, a once common game bird.

It was once the most numerous species of bird on Earth.

The Dani people, whom Gardner identifies mysteriously as " a mountain people ," believe that there was once a great race between a bird and a snake, which was to determine the lives of human beings.

Recently a giant subfossil eagle, the Malagasy Crowned Eagle, identified from Madagascar was actually implicated as a top bird predator of the island, whose megafauna once included giant lemurs and pygmy hippopotami.

The sign in front of the inn is known to have once " portrayed a man with a bird in his hand and a bush nearby, in which two birds were perched ," and was known as the Bird-in-Hand Inn.

The monarchy of Austria-Hungary once chose the Imperial Eagle to be its heraldic animal, but this did not help this bird.

Also, his species is ambiguous ; although originally and often portrayed as a young canary, he is also frequently called a rare and valuable " tweety bird " as a plot device, and once called " the only living specimen ".

* Cetti's Warbler, the loudest British song bird with a distinctive ( once learnt ) ' explosive ' song.

Some think that Candlestick Point was named for the indigenous " candlestick bird " ( Long-billed Curlew ), once common to the point.

The University's varsity team was also once called the Parrots, adding to the confusion about the species of the bird in question.

A bird of prey once known colloquially as a pigeon hawk in North America, the Merlin breeds in the northern Holarctic ; some migrate to subtropical and northern tropical regions in winter.

Thus the bill becomes a most delicate organ of sensation, and by its means the bird, while probing for food, is at once able to distinguish the nature of the objects it encounters, though these are wholly out of sight.

The bird was redesigned once again for these new cartoons, this time by animator LaVerne Harding.

Its common name is popularly thought to derive from the crest of long quill-like feathers, lending the bird the appearance of a secretary with quill pens tucked behind his or her ear, as was once common practice.

In the southern Atlantic coastal plain, the bird breeds in South Carolina near Charlestown, though it is believed to have once bred as far north as Virginia and south into Georgia.

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

A common, simple outdoor bird feeder can be made by coating a pine cone once with peanut butter, then again with birdseed.

Lewis was not particularly concerned with the political beliefs of his organizers, so long as he controlled the organization ; as he once famously remarked, when asked about the “ reds ” on the SWOC staff, “ Who gets the bird?

So innovative was the technology by 1963 standards that an Audio-Animatronic talking " barker " bird ( Juan, cousin of José ) once located near the walkway to beckon visitors inside, caused enormous traffic jams of visitors trying to catch a glimpse of it.

On average, a mammal has a brain roughly twice as large as that of a bird of the same body size, and ten times as large as that of a reptile of the same body size.

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.

So far, only a single bird species, which has not been named, has been confidently identified from both above and below the K-Pg boundary ( it is present in the Maastrichtian Hell Creek Formation and Danian Fort Union Formation ).

It is because of the scarlet color of cardinals ' vesture that the bird of the same name has become known as such.

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

a bird that has a red breast and pinions ".

This has led to an alternative English common name for the bird, " garefowl " or " gairfowl ".

While recent evidence suggesting that American Ivory-billed Woodpeckers may still exist in the wild has caused excitement in the Ornithology community, no similar evidence exists for the Cuban Ivory-billed bird, believed to be extinct since the last sighting in the late 1980s.

The island has three endemic bird species, and two endemic subspecies.

Phosphate — in actuality a resource derived from a 1, 000-year cycle of bird droppings — has been mined on the island since 1906.

An example of the opposite case is " cuckoo ", which, due to continuous familiarity with the bird noise down the centuries, has kept approximately the same pronunciation as in Anglo-Saxon times and its vowels have not changed to as in " furrow ".

The bird has just two toes on each foot ( most birds have four ), with the nail on the larger, inner toe resembling a hoof.

Hybridization with the subspecies that evolved southwestwards of its range, S. c. massaicus, has apparently been prevented from occurring on a significant scale by ecological separation, the Somali Ostrich preferring bushland where it browses middle-height vegetation for food while the Masai Ostrich is, like the other subspecies, a grazing bird of the open savanna and miombo habitat.

Rousay is a ' Site of Special Scientific Interest ' with notable cliff formations and wildflower colonies, and has an RSPB bird reserve.

The GEICO company has created a series of television ads that are built around proverbs, such as " A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ": and " The pen is mightier than the sword "

Conversely, birds of prey-which show distinct reverse sexual dimorphism — tend to be monogamous for long periods or mate for life ; some species like the Snail kite will choose new mates every year, polygyny is noted in many Harriers and polyandry has been observed in the Harris ' Hawk ( notable for being the only bird of prey to regularly live and hunt in family and social groups ) and the aforementioned Galapagos hawk.

Another etymology that has been proposed is English pigeon, a bird sometimes used for carrying brief written messages, especially in times prior to modern telecommunications.

It has declared several bird sanctuaries including Kumana.

The archipelago has fifteen bird sanctuaries, one geotopic protected area and six nature reserves — with Nordaust-Svalbard and Søraust-Svalbard both being larger than any of the national parks.

While wild cats, dogs, feral pigs, black rats, Polynesian rats and mice are present, the island has no known populations of possums, mustelids ( weasels, stoats or ferrets ), hedgehogs, brown rats or deer, thus being a relative haven for native bird and plant populations.

The study of learning became an area of interest and the study of bird song has been a model for studies in neuro-ethology.

The role of hormones and physiology in the control of behaviour has also been aided by bird models.

The use of bird skins to document species has been a standard part of systematic ornithology.