Birds nest and shelter in trees but forage mainly on the ground in these open areas.

Birds in the Italian Alps tended to build their nest close to water in steep cliffs or tall trees.

Birds in winter can be very confiding and will come into gardens for berry bushes and trees, a favourite being the rowan.

Birds roost in forested areas or large trees at night, disperse to forage in the early morning and return in the late afternoon.

Birds arrive at dusk and call frequently before taking their position on the roost trees.

Birds are usually observed in the native salt-water marshes, the artificial fresh-water marshes and the thickets and isolated trees of the refuge.

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Birds of all kinds are the messengers of the sun and heaven, and represent the pushing away of evil ; they symbolize fertility, the fulfillment of wishes, and a good harvest.

So, all in all, the infield can't be expected to supply the added improvement to propel the Birds from second to first.

Hank Foiles, backed up by Frank House who will be within calling distance in the minors, make up better second line catching than the Birds had all last year, but Gus is still that big man you need when you start talking pennant.

The Birds got five hits and all three of their runs off Kunkel before Hartman took over in the top of the fourth.

Birds figure prominently in all aspects of human culture from religion to poetry to popular music.

) The New-York Historical Society has all 435 of the preparatory watercolors for Birds of America.

* The homestead Mill Grove in Audubon, PA is open to the public and contains a museum presenting all his major works, including Birds of America.

* Audubon's Birds of America at the University of Pittsburgh, a complete high resolution digitization of all 435 double elephant folios as well as his Ornithological Biography

A scholium to line 971 of Aristophanes ' The Birds mentions a cult " to Pandora, the earth, because she bestows all things necessary for life ".

On the other hand, the Check-list of South American Birds classifies all caracaras as true falcons and puts the Laughing Falcon and forest falcons into the subfamily Herpetotherinae.

Birds and animals of all sorts began to enrich her garden, where they were allowed to roam free among the grounds.

The Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area ( SPA ), 1356 hectares of which lie within Bracknell Forest ( Sandhurst to Owlsmoor Bogs and Heaths SSSI and the Broadmoor to Bagshot Woods and Heaths SSSI ), supports nationally important populations of Dartford Warbler, Nightjar and Woodlark, all of which are Annex I species of the Birds Directive, and a small breeding population of Hobby, an important migratory species in a European context.

Birds such as the Eastern Ground Parrot, Glossy Black Cockatoo, Eastern Yellow Robin, Rufous Fantail, Satin Bowerbird and Crimson Rosella are all found in the park's forests.

Birds in some parts of the west of the breeding range ( particularly southwestern Norway ) may be resident, not migrating at all, while those in the far east of the range migrate at least 6, 500 – 7, 000 km to reach their wintering grounds.

In it a houseful of children are busy interacting with various electronic devices, playing Angry Birds, watching 2001 on a large-screen TV and following Twitter feeds on mobile phones and tablet computers, until the mother rabbit throws all the devices out the window so everyone can sleep.

His landmark publications, Phylogeny and Classification of Birds ( written with Ahlquist ) and Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World ( with Burt Monroe ) are among the most-cited of all ornithological works, the former setting out the influential Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy.

It is sometimes argued ( e. g. by Mlíkovský in Cenozoic Birds of the World ) that the Mátraszõlõs fossil is too old to represent any of the modern seaduck genera, but apparently these were all well-distinct even back then.

The EPA enforced cooperating with the design to avoid all American eagles nests and Native American Brian Corntassel represented the Birds natural habitat and highway plans simultaneously through the projects successful completion.

Birds are excellent, highly mobile vectors for the distribution of chlamydial infection because they feed on, and have access to, the detritus of infected animals of all sorts.

A 1975 checklist included six genera, whereas the 2003 volume of the Handbook of the Birds of the World, which covered the family, placed all the pittas in a single genus.

The Birds resembles all the early plays of Aristophanes in key aspects of its dramatic structure.

The mid-1960s, saw the introduction of pop groups such as Los cabelleros led by Neville Fernando, The La Bambas, The Humming Birds and Los Muchachos ; all of whom played calypso-style baila borrowing their style from Caribbean folk-singer Harry Belafonte.

" Burton points out that not all of the ideas in The Perfumed Garden are original: " For instance, all the record of Moçama and of Chedja is taken from the work of Mohammed ben Djerir el Taberi ; the description of the different positions for coition, as well as the movements applicable to them, are borrowed from Indian works ; finally, the book Birds and Flowers by Azeddine el Mocadecci ( Izz al-Din al-Mosadeqi ) seems to have been consulted with respect to the interpretation of dreams.

A great deal of her work, including Delta of Venus and Little Birds, was published posthumously.

Neltje Blanchan, in her book Birds That Hunt and Are Hunted documented that over a million birds were exterminated at one time from a single flock.

He appeared in more than 90 films, including The Great Imposter ( 1961 ), Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds ( as the man helping the Tippi Hedren character with her rental boat ), Jerry Lewis's The Nutty Professor ( 1963 ), Pocketful Of Miracles ( 1961 ) and, in a cameo, It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ).

Over the following three decades, her career continued sporadically and included a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's horror film, The Birds ( 1963 ), and a Tony Award-winning performance in The Gin Game ( 1977, playing in the two-hander play opposite Hume Cronyn ).

She describes her peacocks in an essay entitled " The King of the Birds.

Still devoted to her school, she began to raise money for it through writing, first The Story of Patsy ( 1883 ), then The Birds ' Christmas Carol ( 1887 ).

She portrayed Fiona Cleary, Cleary family matriarch, in the 1983 mini-series, The Thorn Birds ; she won an Emmy Award for her role.

In addition, she received several Emmy nominations, including one for playing in 1981 Magda Goebbels, wife of Joseph Goebbels, in The Bunker, opposite Anthony Hopkins as Hitler ; for her role in the miniseries The Thorn Birds ; two for her work in Twin Peaks as the evil Catherine Martell, and a nomination for her guest appearance on Frasier.

Powell's charm and spunk made her stand out in her follow-up vehicle Three Daring Daughters, originally titled The Birds and the Bees, in which she co-starred with Jeanette MacDonald, who took the young performer under her wing.

Honey Bear's imminent arrival was announced in early 2000 in The Birds, the Bees, and the Berenstain Bears, along with a reader contest to name the new bear ; her birth was featured later that year in The Berenstain Bears and Baby Makes Five.

She is primarily known for her roles in two Alfred Hitchcock films, The Birds and Marnie ( in which she played the title role ), and her extensive efforts in animal rescue at Shambala Preserve, an wildlife habitat which she founded in 1983.

Within a year she made her film debut ( minus dialogue ) as a Petty Girl model in The Petty Girl ( 1950 ) musical comedy, although in interviews she refers to The Birds ( 1963 ) as her first film.

Hitchcock directed Hedren in her debut film, The Birds.

It was restored as a full species, the Eastern Water Rail, R. indicus, by Pamela Rasmussen in her Birds of South Asia ( 2005 ).

She reappeared in 1987 playing opposite her husband, Bryan Brown ( whom she met on the set of The Thorn Birds ), in The Umbrella Woman.

In his book Birds of a Feather: The Press and the Politicians, Allan Fotheringham claimed that Turner tried to exact her revenge on the press during the 1988 election campaign by secretly taking photographs of journalists partying on a campaign bus, with an eye toward publishing them in a magazine.

My Family has used several actors from various past hit sitcoms, most notably David Haig from The Thin Blue Line, Belinda Lang of 2point4 children, Diana Weston from The Upper Hand who ( in a possible reference to a character from her own sitcom ) portrayed a male-female transsexual named Charlie, Pauline Quirke of Birds of a Feather and Sam Kelly from On the Up.