As a naturalist living for two years at the headwaters of the Amazon, he had collected specimens for Mexican museums, and he had taken to the London zoo a live quetzal, the sacred bird of the old Mayans.

Walking along the lake before breakfast, Mr. Podger had seen the feather, and the bird that had lost it in flight.

My Cousin Simmons carried a musket, but he had loaded it with bird shot, and as the officer came opposite him, he rose up behind the wall and fired.

The events of the last quarter of an hour, mysterious to any bird accustomed only to the predictable life of coop and barnyard, had overcome the doctor's hen and she gave out a series of cackly wails, perhaps mourning her nest, but briefly enjoyed.

In open class poultry, Donald Wacklin of Sherwood had the champion male and female bird and grand champion bird.

He looked around to find out who had shot the bird.

The Bakairi people of Brazil had a sprawling constellation representing a bird snare.

Victor Yannacone, Charles Wurster, Art Cooley and others associated with inception of EDF had all witnessed bird kills or declines in bird populations and suspected that DDT was the cause.

" Joe DeRita, who worked with the Stooges after 1959, had commented that Sullivan had a personality " like the bottom of a bird cage.

The fossil record ( especially the sister species Pinguinus alfrednewtoni ) and molecular evidence show that the three genera, while closely related, diverged soon after their common ancestor, a bird probably similar to a stout Xantus's Murrelet, had spread to the coasts of the Atlantic.

Nearly half of the bird bones found in graves at this site were of the Great Auk, suggesting that it had cultural significance for the Maritime Archaic people.

The Great Auk had disappeared from Funk Island by 1800, and an account by Aaron Thomas of HMS Boston from 1794 described how the bird had been systematically slaughtered until then:

There were numerous unconfirmed reports of the bird, but many ornithologists believed the species had been wiped out completely, and it was assessed as " extinct " by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources in 1994.

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 Kes the boy actor, discovering the dead bird at the end, believed Loach had killed the bird, which he had become fond of during the filming ( the crew used a dead bird found elsewhere ).

Some birds, especially corvids and parrots, are among the most intelligent animal species ; a number of bird species have been observed manufacturing and using tools, and many social species exhibit cultural transmission of knowledge across generations.

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 ).

Many rare species of bird have been found on the island, and it is probably the best place in western Europe to see skulking Siberian passerines such as Pechora Pipit, Lanceolated Warbler and Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler.

Skeptics dismissed the photos as frauds ; seeing that the bird is in roughly the same position in both photos, they suggested they may have been of a mounted specimen.

On the Isle of Man, where she is known as Caillagh ny Groamagh, the Cailleach is said to have been seen on Imbolc in the form of a gigantic bird, carrying sticks in her beak.

Although all sea ducks readily feed on shallow-water molluscs, no Western Atlantic bird species seems to have been as dependent on such food as much as the Labrador Duck.

The Liverpool badge is based on the city's liver bird, which in the past had been placed inside a shield.

Despite being told that the bird is deceased and that it had been nailed to its perch, the proprietor insists that it is " pining for the fjords " or simply " stunned ".

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.

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

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.

It may have been the most numerous bird on earth in its heyday, and A. W. Schorger believed it accounted for between 25 and 40 percent of the total landbird population in the US.

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.

In 1809 Cuvier published a somewhat longer description, naming the animal, in which he refuted a hypothesis by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach that it would have been a shore bird.

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.

The term " Persian bird " for the cock would appear to been given by the Greeks after Persian contact " because of his great importance and his religious use among the Persians ", but even long before that time, in Iran, during the Kianian Period, from about 2000 B. C.

In a Rabbinical account ( e. g. Targum Sheni ), Solomon was accustomed to ordering the living creatures of the world to dance before him ( Rabbinical accounts say that Solomon had been given control over all living things by Yahweh ), but one day upon discovering that the mountain-cock or hoopoe ( Hebrew name: shade ) was absent, he summoned it to him, and the bird told him that it had been searching for somewhere new.

The barnacle goose, mute swan, whooper swan, eider, shelduck and a great many other bird species have been given protection status.

For there could not have been a first egg to give a beginning to birds, or there should have been a first bird which gave a beginning to eggs ; for a bird comes from an egg.

While collecting became a pastime for many amateurs, the labels associated with these early egg collections made them unreliable for the serious study of bird breeding.

Originally, the phoenix was identified by the Egyptians as a stork or heron-like bird called a benu, known from the Book of the Dead and other Egyptian texts as one of the sacred symbols of worship at Heliopolis, closely associated with the rising sun and the Egyptian sun-god Ra.

A colony of black swans in Dawlish, Devon has become so well associated with the town that the bird has been the town's emblem for forty years.

Terry Pratchett had not heard of the bird when he came up with the name but retroactively associated the name with the bird in later books.

According to the vida of the Monge de Montaudon, he received a sparrow hawk, a prized hunting bird, for his poetry from the cour du Puy, some sort of poetry society associated with the court of Alfonso II of Aragon.

Symbolically, Philomela is associated with the nightingale, a bird known for its song and her depiction in creative works is of being transformed into a nightingale — even though in nature, only the male nightingale sings.

The Sun God is associated with an aquatic eastern paradise, where he can assume the shape of a chimerical water bird, or be shown as a young man, paddling a canoe.

However, the egg was also said to have been a gift from Thoth, and laid by an ibis, the bird with which he was associated.

Prior to the publication of the Wall Street Journal article, Canadian ornithologist Jason Rogers also wrote about the environmental problems associated with the use of bird feeders in the journal Alberta Naturalist.

The multiple heads or limbs of Lord Vishnu or Goddess Durga often seen in Hindu art, for example, would be intended to represent divine omniscience and omnipotence, whereas the use of an animal icons for vehicle would seek to allegorically represent particular abstract qualities associated with that animal / bird such as astuteness, agility or power.

This species lacks the wealth of literary references associated with its relative, the Barn Swallow, although it is possible that some of the older mentions for that bird might equally well refer to the House Martin.

The European Green Woodpecker is associated with Woodpecker Cider, an image of the bird is used on the merchandise.

Gimbutas argued that the thousands of female images from Old Europe ( archaeology ) represented a number of different groups of goddess symbolism, notably a " bird and snake " group associated with water, an " earth mother " group associated with birth, and a " stiff nude " group associated with death, as well as other groups.

This bird is familiar to sailors, and much folklore is associated with this harbinger of stormy weather.

* Libya: A region associated with the seasonal migration of cranes ( lines 710, 1136 ), it allows for a pun on the Greek word libas ( anything that drops or trickles ) – Euelpides claims to be a Libyan bird on the grounds that he has wet himself with fear ( 65 ).

This is used as a metaphor for the changes brought about by her womanhood: being herself in love, her newfound awareness of the associated sense of rapture enables her to empathize with the hapless bird ( as a younger girl she would have been simply excited by the prospect of a fine hunting trophy ).