The female widow bird will desire to mate with the most attractive long-tailed male so that her progeny, if male, will themselves be attractive to females of the next generation-thereby fathering many offspring who will carry the female's genes.

These cultivars are less attractive to gardeners growing the flowers as ornamental plants, but appeal to farmers, because they reduce bird damage and losses from some plant diseases.

Reducing feather wear and parasite load, moulting can make a bird more physically attractive and healthy, and may thus increase its chance of successful reproduction.

This attractive bird is readily approached.

They are very attractive to fruit-eating birds, which is reflected in the old name " bird catcher ".

The Kashmir Flycatcher is another attractive bird species found in the park.

Their large size and soft appearance together with their rich color and gentle contours make them very attractive, and as such its popularity has grown as a show bird rather than a utility breed.

* Lack of safety in numbers for a small bird attractive to avian predators ( Brouwer and Garnett 1990 )

The area is particularly attractive to bird watchers, who come to see the lammergeier, griffon vulture and Egyptian vultures, as well as a wide variety of birds of prey.

It is one of the most important, largest and most attractive preserved intact wetlands in Europe, hosting about 260 various bird species such as ( wild geese and ducks, Great White Egret, White Stork, Black Stork, White-tailed Eagle, crows, coots, gulls, terns, kingfishers, and European Green Woodpecker.

The moderately sized state park is in a remote location, making it attractive for bird watchers and naturalists.

In and around Pijnacker there are big and attractive nature areas, of which one is the Ackerdijkse Plassen, one of the most important bird areas in the Netherlands.

a stream or pond which is attractive in the springtime may become stagnant or dry in late summer.

Systems which detect submarines over wide areas are attractive, although they can be only `` burglar alarms ''.

Mr. D'Albert has a firm, attractive tone, which eschews an overly sweet vibrato.

On foreign and military policy, Lincoln spoke out against the Mexican – American War, which he attributed to President Polk's desire for " military glory — that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood ".

This force is used in the formal definition of the ampere, which states that it is " the constant current that will produce an attractive force of 2 × 10 < sup >– 7 </ sup > newton per metre of length between two straight, parallel conductors of infinite length and negligible circular cross section placed one metre apart in a vacuum ".

The thick inner layer of the shell is composed of nacre or mother-of-pearl, which in many species is highly iridescent, giving rise to a range of strong and changeable colors, which make the shells attractive to humans as decorative objects, and as a source of colorful mother-of-pearl.

Aesthetic ethics refers to the idea that human conduct and behaviour ought to be governed by that which is beautiful and attractive.

The comparatively low price for a complete computer system with dedicated monitor, its high resolution monochrome text and graphic capabilities and the possibility to run CP / M software also rendered the system attractive for business users, which was reflected by a wide selection of application software.

It is attractive ( although not necessarily wise ) for the player to insure against the possibility of a dealer blackjack by making a maximum " insurance " bet, in which case the " insurance proceeds " will make up for the concomitant loss on the original bet.

* Steric forces between polymer-covered surfaces or in solutions containing non-adsorbing polymer can modulate interparticle forces, producing an additional steric repulsive force ( which is predominantly entropic in origin ) or an attractive depletion force between them.

* Steric stabilization consists in covering the particles in polymers which prevents the particle to get close in the range of attractive forces.

However, he realized that his equations permitted the introduction of a constant term which could counteract the attractive force of gravity on the cosmic scale.

Its flowers are attractive to bees, which are important for gardens with an abundance of plants in need of pollination.

As a response to the increased global sedentarity and consequent overweight and obesity, one response that has been adopted by many organizations concerned with health and environment is the promotion of Active travel, which seeks to promote walking and cycling as safe and attractive alternatives to motorized transport.

It was especially attractive because it was possible to do a three-way cross-compile, for instance to use a hefty Sun workstation to build, say, a Windows-x-MIPS cross-compiler, which was faster than using the PC at the time.

Suppose a mass is attached to a spring which exerts an attractive force on the mass proportional to the extension / compression of the spring.

The larger-board construction also made the Nova more reliable, which made it especially attractive for industrial or lab settings.

Many third party developers used the V64 in lieu of the PC64 Development Kit sold by Nintendo ; the V64 was considered an attractive, low cost alternative to the expensive N64 development machine, which was manufactured by Silicon Graphics at the time.

The magnitude of the electromagnetic force, whether attractive or repulsive, is given by Coulomb's law, which relates the force to the product of the charges and has an inverse-square relation to the distance between them.

" On second reading, the reader should realize that " breast " does not carry the general androgynous connotation of " chest " but instead the specific idea of a woman's breasts, which are so attractive that a man of any religion would kiss the Christian cross to be near.

Gold has a bright yellow color and luster traditionally considered attractive, which it maintains without oxidizing in air or water.

The induced dipole forces appear from the induction ( also known as polarization ), which is the attractive interaction between a permanent multipole on one molecule with an induced ( by the former di / multi-pole ) multipole on another.

As a lecturer he was exceedingly attractive, and his success in teaching was largely attributable to the persuasiveness with which he enunciated his views.

These mews now provide very attractive private accommodation which can fetch similar prices to flats in the grand houses they once served.

They are attractive to bees, butterflies and birds and are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Schinia niveicosta, which feeds exclusively on P. linearis.

While both sexes state that kindness is the most preferable trait in a partner there is some evidence that men place less value on this than women and that women may not be more altruistic in presence of an attractive man.

She called him, " an intelligent, philosophic, modest man " and found his views on education " very attractive ". Locals in Cheshire were less supportive and became suspicious of his methods.

This has become attractive since the 1990s, especially since more traditional spring break places such as Daytona Beach, Florida have become restrictive on drinking and other behaviors.

Aachen became attractive as a spa by the middle of the 17th century, not so much because of the effects of the hot springs on the health of its visitors but because Aachen was then — and remained well into the 19th century — a place of high-level prostitution in Europe.

Modern Anah lies from west to east on the right bank along a bend of the river just before it turns south towards Hit, and presents an attractive appearance.

These activists also point out that heavy subsidization of developed nations ' agriculture and the aggressive use of export subsidies by some developed nations to make their agricultural products more attractive on the international market are major causes of declines in the agricultural sectors of many developing nations.

The Industrial Revolution, however, resulted in large changes and Accrington ’ s location on the confluence of a number of streams made it attractive to industry and a number of mills were built in the town in the mid-eighteenth century.

However, the results of BCS theory do not depend on the origin of the attractive interaction.

This viewer application allows the content created by the proprietary authoring software to be readable on all supported operating-system platforms, free of charge, thus making it a more attractive solution.

The spatulae tipped setae on gecko footpads facilitate attractive forces called van der Waals forces

Hyperbolas arise in practice in many ways: as the curve representing the function in the Cartesian plane, as the appearance of a circle viewed from within it, as the path followed by the shadow of the tip of a sundial, as the shape of an open orbit ( as distinct from a closed and hence elliptical orbit ), such as the orbit of a spacecraft during a gravity assisted swing-by of a planet or more generally any spacecraft exceeding the escape velocity of the nearest planet, as the path of a single-apparition comet ( one travelling too fast to ever return to the solar system ), as the scattering trajectory of a subatomic particle ( acted on by repulsive instead of attractive forces but the principle is the same ), and so on.

In addition to other attractive prizes awarded to the top 3 winners in each division, the first place winner of the Adult Division is invited to perform on the main stage of the Bean Blossom Blues Fest later that evening in front of a crowd of several thousand.

Another youth Mehmed found attractive, and who was presumably more accommodating, was Radu III the Fair, the brother of the famous Vlad the Impaler, “ Radu, a hostage in Istanbul whose good looks had caught the Sultan ’ s fancy, and who was thus singled out to serve as one of his most favored pages .” After the defeat of Vlad, Mehmed placed Radu on the throne of Wallachia as a vassal ruler.

While attending Jesus ' Sermon on the Mount, Brian becomes infatuated with an attractive young rebel, Judith.

A new university college ( Swedish: högskola ), Malmö University College, was opened in 1998 on Kockums ' former dockside and further redevelopment of the now disused south-western harbor followed ; a city architecture exposition ( Bo01 ) was held in the area in 2001 and its buildings and villas forms the core of a new city district, aimed at the urban middle-class and with attractive waterfront vistas.

* Beauty mark, dark mole on the face or other part of the body that is considered to be attractive

As he was escorting an attractive blonde woman across the sidewalk to a taxi, Davis was told by Patrolman Gerald Kilduff to " move on.

In general, the more blogs Google AdSense can reach, the more advertisers it will attract, making it the most attractive option for more blogs, and so on, making the network more valuable for all participants.

Though a popular movement the intellectual elite of the United States found phrenology attractive because it provided a biological explanation of mental processes based on observation, yet it wasn't accepted uncritically.