It feeds, usually in flocks, on short grazed grassland, taking mainly invertebrate prey in summer and fruit in winter ; it will readily approach tourist sites to find supplementary food.

The winter habitat of the Bar-headed Goose is cultivated fields, where it feeds on barley, rice and wheat, and may damage crops.

The winter diet is mainly plant material including seeds and rhizomes of aquatic plants, but the Pintail sometimes feeds on roots, grain and other seeds in fields, though less frequently than other Anas ducks.

The numbat synchronises its day with termite activity, which is temperature dependent: in winter, it feeds from mid-morning to mid-afternoon ; in summer, it rises earlier, takes shelter during the heat of the day, and feeds again in the late afternoon.

In summer, it feeds on plants such as, grass, ferns and leaves ; in winter, it eats twigs, the bark from trees, and buds from flowers and plants and, similar to the Arctic hare, has been known to steal meat from baited traps.

It feeds mainly on invertebrates, particularly crustaceans and mollusks in winter and insects during the breeding season.

In winter, its typical habitat is rocky coasts but it also feeds on beaches, mudflats and man-made structures such as jetties and breakwaters.

Its name does not indicate that it is an abundant species, but that during the winter it feeds on common land, short pasture used for grazing.

During the short winter days the Western Capercaillie feeds almost constantly and produces a pellet nearly every 10 minutes.

It primarily feeds on insects, especially in the breeding season, but it will consume plant material, including rice and maize, on migration and in winter.

It mainly feeds in trees but also feeds on the ground, especially in winter as the supply of seeds becomes reduced.

In winter, it often feeds in flocks with other Indigo Buntings, but is a solitary feeder during the breeding season.

It usually feeds from saline environments in winter, like most Sterna terns.

The Cape May Warbler also feeds on berry juice and nectar while winter, and has, uniquely for a warbler, a tubular tongue to facilitate this action.

It feeds on insects and spiders in summer, supplemented with seeds and snails in winter.

It feeds on grasses, sedges and other green vegetation in summer, and twigs of willow, aspen and birches in winter.

As headpond, it feeds the power plants of the La Grande complex in the winter and provides up to 35 % of their production.

A variant fable, separately numbered 112 in the Perry Index, features a dung beetle as the improvident insect which finds that the winter rains wash away the dung on which it feeds.

The species overwinters as a larva and feeds on mild days throughout the winter.

It used to be a strictly coastal bird in winter, seldom leaving tidal estuaries, where it feeds on eel-grass ( Zostera marina ) and the seaweed, sea lettuce ( Ulva ).

Lewis's Woodpecker also feeds on berries and nuts, and will even shell and store nuts in cracks and holes in wood to store until winter.

It feeds on seeds, and during the winter descends in flocks to agricultural fields to find food.

Riding trains, hitching hikes on trucks across Germany, slipping through guarded frontiers with the help of secret guides, he eventually reached Vichy France, and, by the winter of 1943, was back in Virginia.

Underneath the big one, in the silent moonlight, lay a dead pigeon, and on the smaller bell, the Clemence, two gray and white birds slept huddled together in the cold winter air.

He recognized her because she was the one who, in a winter twilight, on the edge of camp, had once stopped him and reached down her hand to touch his fly.

I learned, for example, that he made a practice of yapping at dogs he encountered and, in winter, of sprinkling salt on the icy pavement to scarify their feet.

The grant, which stretched southward to Lake Traverse -- the headwaters of the Red -- was made in May, 1811, and by October of that year a small group of Scots was settling for the winter at York Factory on Hudson Bay.

It was a three-month journey in the dead of winter followed by three months of labor on Mackinac boats.

After heavy rains and an onslaught of mice, snow fell on October 15, 1825, and remained on the ground through a winter so cold that the ice on the Red was five feet thick.

Thus, when Dartmouth's Winter Carnival -- widely recognized as the greatest, wildest, roaringest college weekend anywhere, any time -- was broadcast over a national television hookup, Prexy John Sloan Dickey appeared on the screen in rugged winter garb, topped off by a tam-o'-shanter which he confessed had been acquired from a Smith girl.

The Troop is proud of its camping-out program -- on year-round schedule and was continued even when sub-zero temperatures were registered during the past winter.

Kowalski, a roofer who seldom worked last winter, already was in arrears on their recently purchased split-level home when the tragedy staggered him with medical and funeral bills.

Night after night he stayed with Gunny in the dead of winter, rubbing her with quarts of expensive liniment, fussing over her bran mash as the cook did over charlotte russe, tracking manure on the pretty new carpet when he did come to the house.

Callimachus sang that Apollo rode on the back of a swan to the land of the Hyperboreans during the winter months.

In fact, because of atmospheric refraction and because the sun appears as a disk and not a point, part of the midnight sun may be seen on the night of the northern summer solstice up to about 50 ′ () south of the Arctic Circle ; similarly, on the day of the northern winter solstice, part of the sun may be seen up to about 50 ′ north of the Arctic Circle.

Winter annuals are important ecologically, as they provide vegetative cover that prevents soil erosion during winter and early spring when no other cover exists and they provide fresh vegetation for animals and birds that feed on them.

In Old Babylonian astronomy, Ea was the ruler of the southernmost quarter of the Sun's path, the " Way of Ea ", corresponding to the period of 45 days on either side of winter solstice.

While the amount of winter snowfall varied greatly, the Ancient Pueblo depended on the snow for most of their water.

In particular, time intervals measured on the surface of the Earth ( terrestrial time, TT ) are not constant when compared to the motions of the planets: the terrestrial second ( TT ) appears to be longer in Northern Hemisphere winter and shorter in Northern Hemisphere summer when compared to the " planetary second " ( conventionally measured in barycentric dynamical time, TDB ).

The Northern Hemisphere is considered to be halfway through its summer and the Southern Hemisphere halfway through its winter on this day.

From the winter of 1124 to September 1125, he was on a risky expedition to Peña Cadiella deep in Andalusia.

Salieri's first full opera was composed during the winter and carnival season of 1770 ; Le donne letterate and was based on Molière's Les Femmes Savantes ( The Learned Ladies ) with a libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini a dancer in the court ballet, and a brother of the famous composer.

Since 1998, Harvard University wraps some of the valuable statues on its campus, such as this " Harvard Bixi | Chinese stele ", with waterproof covers every winter, in order to protect them from erosion caused by acid rain.

The show was first announced in The New York Times on October 5, 1961: " For the winter of 1962, Laurents is nurturing another musical project, The Natives Are Restless.