Among the birds most characteristic of Africa are the ostrich and the secretary-bird.

Among the numerous laws that form part of kashrut are the prohibitions on the consumption of unclean animals ( such as pork and most insects, with the exception of crickets and locusts ), mixtures of meat and milk, and the commandment to slaughter mammals and birds according to a process known as shechita.

Among the eagles are some of the largest birds of prey: only the condors and some of the Old World vultures are markedly larger.

Among the highest branches was a nest, with twice four birds -- and those the serpent seized together with the mother-bird as she was fluttering round her loss.

Among the rarest and most powerful birds in the world, it has been declared the Philippine national bird.

The windmill was owned by the family of singer James Blunt for many decades Among resident breeding birds are Avocet, Bearded Tit, Bittern, Marsh Harrier and Spoonbill.

Among 690 species of birds inhabiting the territory of the former USSR, 350 are found in Primorye.

Among the birds in the aviary are Black-crowned Night Heron, Blue-winged Teal, Bufflehead Duck, Cattle Egret, Double-crested Cormorant, Great Egret, Wood Duck, Northern Bobwhite, Roseate Spoonbill, Snowy Egret, and American White Ibis.

Among common European birds, only the Black Redstart ( Phoenicurus ochrurus ) has a similarly coloured tail.

Among terrestrial birds, ravens, peregrine falcons, some wrens and wagtails are common.

Among their most conspicuous behaviours is a near constant tail wagging, a trait that has given the birds their common name.

Among birds the best-known forms of parasitism are brood parasitism by various species of cuckoos, honey-guides, cowbirds, and several more.

Among these are the Battalia, a programmatic " battle " piece which anticipates such latter-day techniques as polytonality and col legno playing, and the Sonata representativa, another typical 17th century piece similar to works by Walther and Farina, which imitates various birds and animals.

Among the latter, the Great Horned Owl ( Bubo virginianus ) and the Eurasian Eagle-owl ( B. bubo ) are noted predators of Barn Owls ( though there is little evidence for predation on wild birds by Great Horned Owls ).

Among the cherry trees in the garden at the homestead were " bronzewing pigeon and satin birds, love birds and honeyeating parakeets.

Among the features linking theropod dinosaurs to birds are the three-toed foot, a furcula ( wishbone ), air-filled bones, brooding of the eggs, and ( in some cases ) feathers.

Among other Italian still life, Bernardo Strozzi ’ s The Cook is a " kitchen scene " in the Dutch manner, which is both a detailed portrait of a cook and the game birds she is preparing.

Among the many vagrant birds which have been found here are the following, which was a first for Britain:

Among these hundreds of national refuges are home to some 700 species of birds, 220 species of mammals, 250 reptile and amphibian species and more than 200 species of fish.

Among the leading birds was a hawk named Big Red.

Among opportunistic species such as the Roseate Tern, research has found that parent birds involved in kleptoparasitism are more successful in raising broods than non-kleptoparasitic individuals.

Among passerine birds, there are fewer known examples of kleptoparasitism, though Masked Shrikes have been recorded stealing food from wheatears, and Eurasian Blackbirds have been seen stealing smashed snails from other thrushes.

Among birds, these include, for example, herons, hawks, woodpeckers, owls and most passerines.

Among northern races of Sandhill cranes, the diet is most varied especially among breeding birds.

Among the last of his labors was the defense of the orthodoxy of his former pupil, Thomas Aquinas, whose death in 1274 grieved Albertus ( the story that he travelled to Paris in person to defend the teachings of Aquinas can not be confirmed ).

Among his results, Gauss showed that under a paraxial approximation an optical system can be characterized by its cardinal points and he derived the Gaussian lens formula.

Among the advantages to unfretted instruments are flexibility in tuning ( the temperament can be easily altered ) and the ability to play any music exactly as written without concern for " bad " notes.

Among the time-domain filters we here consider, there are two general classes of filter transfer functions that can approximate a desired frequency response.

Among several others, they highlight the fact that maintaining a judicial system, a fundamental requirement of the civil right to due process before the law and other rights relating to judicial process, is positive, resource-intensive, progressive and vague, while the social right to housing is precise, justiciable and can be a real ' legal ' right.

Among the kinds of data that can be moved over the 64 kbit / s channels are pulse-code modulated voice calls, providing access to the traditional voice PSTN.

Among many pagans, there is a strong desire to incorporate the female aspects of the divine in their worship and within their lives, which can partially explain the attitude which sometimes manifests as the veneration of women.

Among the many ways of classifying plants are by regional floras, which, depending on the purpose of study, can also include fossil flora, remnants of plant life from a previous era.

Among QCT's advantages: it can be performed at axial and peripheral sites, can be calculated from existing CT scans without a separate radiation dose, is sensitive to change over time, can analyze a region of any size or shape, excludes irrelevant tissue such as fat, muscle, and air, and does not require knowledge of the patient's subpopulation in order to create a clinical score ( e. g. the Z-score of all females of a certain age ).

Among the issues which can make the distinction difficult is variable rates of evolution among the theories and methodologies of science in response to new data.

Among scientists, " correctness " ( of procedures, results, or scientific claims ) derives from the factual truth of the matter or the soundness of the reasoning by which it can be deduced from observations and first principles.

Among symmetric key encryption algorithms, only the one-time pad can be proven to be secure against any adversary-no matter how much computing power is available.

Among those sects that generally are negative towards these orientations, there are many different types of actions they may take: this can range from quietly discouraging homosexual activity, explicitly forbidding same-sex sexual practices among adherents and actively opposing social acceptance of homosexuality, to execution.

Among other things, the result of the message can be assigned to a variable:

Among the others groups can be found the Tamberma, the Guin, the Losso, the Ouachi and the Gourma.

Among other things, the man says that the hall belongs to his king, and adds that he can take Gangleri to the king.

Among professional voice users ( i. e. teachers, sales people ) this tiring can cause voice failures and sick leaves.

Among the most interesting and mysterious remnants of this era are the so-called cart ruts as they can be seen at a place on Malta called Clapham Junction.

Among these is infection by the fungus Botryosphaeria, which causes panicle and shoot blight ( i. e., kills flowers and young shoots ), and can damage entire pistachio orchards.

Among these can be named T. S. Eliot, Thérèse de Lisieux, Edith Stein ( Teresa Benedicta of the Cross ), and Thomas Merton.

Among other uses, Advanced Covering can be used for end-capping, post-translation corrections, and surface definition from curve data.

Among the issues within the history of literature with which book history can be seen to intersect are: the development of authorship as a profession, the formation of reading audiences, the constraints of censorship and copyright, and the economics of literary form.

Among the improvements, two new synchrotrons ( with respective magnetic rigidity 100 and 300 Tm ), a Super-FRS and several new rings among which one that can be used for antimatter research.