A pattern is activated by certain expectations: If a person sees a big bird, he or she will classify it rather as a sea eagle than a golden eagle, assuming that his or her " sea-scheme " is currently activated and his " land-scheme " is not.

If a bird, bat, and a winged insect were scored for the character, " presence of wings ", a homoplasy would be introduced into the dataset, and this would confound the analysis, possibly resulting in a false evolutionary scenario.

If the cere is a bright blue, the bird is a male.

If the cere has white rings around the nostrils, the bird is likely female.

If oceanic conditions are unsuitable, seabirds will emigrate to more productive areas, sometimes permanently if the bird is young.

If another kingfisher enters its territory, both birds display from perches, and fights may occur, where a bird will grab the other's beak and try to hold it under water.

If the threat is another bird, however, the pelicans do not abandon the nest and may fight off the interloper by jabbing at them with their considerable bills.

If chased by a bird of prey or other predator, it will bolt straight down the nearest hole like a rodent until the danger has passed.

If the wind shear is of sufficient magnitude, a bird can climb into the wind gradient, trading ground speed for height, while maintaining airspeed.

If the bird makes it through, he tells them to row with all their might and Athena gave the Argo the extra push needed to clear them, " the Argo darted from the rocks like a flying arrow ", whereas in the film he gives Jason an amulet.

* ( If you try to feed the bird :) It's not hungry ( it's merely pinin ' for the fjords ).

If a bird sets off in the opposite direction, shown by the orange arrow, it will end up in Western Europe instead of South East Asia.

If the two wings of a bird are devotion and action, knowledge is its tail.

If an examined bird ever becomes sick and requires the care of a veterinarian, he or she will already have much data about the bird's weight ( one of the earliest indicators of illness in birds ), diet, and care.

If the prey is further away, the bird will flap its wings a few times during the dive to increase distance.

" and he had to trade it in for another bird, which was a parrot, saying, " If you're hurt and can't work.

If the bird is recaptured the number on the band is recorded ( along with other identifying characteristics ) as a retrap.

If so, and if the parental subsidy is sufficient for the sure survival of only one extra bird, there will be grounds for conflict in deciding which sibling will be the one to benefit.

If anything, it should be even more important in a bird that nests in the cold, apparently foodless conditions of late winter.

If wild bird cover is planted for it, Kale, Quinoa and Millet are preferred, next to tall hedges or woodland.

Fellow guest Billy Connolly threatened, " If that bird comes anywhere near me, I'll break its neck and your bloody arm!

If a male bird is on the lookout for a partner and has a suitable nest, it must advertise the fact, either by its call, a visual display or both.

If the bird is excited, it may repeat this call several times.

If based on Brehm ( 1831 ), it refers to this bird.

If seen, this species is unlikely to be mistaken for any other bird.

If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.

If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??

If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

If he is good, he may not be legal ; ;

If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.

If the existent form is to be retained new factors that reinforce it must be introduced into the situation.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

If he is a traditionalist, he is an eclectic traditionalist.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.