It usually hunts by hawking flying insects such as gnats, flies, and small moths, but will occasionally glean from the ground.

It usually hunts by hovering over the water to detect prey and diving vertically down bill-first to capture fish.

The Iberian lynx is smaller than its northern relatives, and typically hunts smaller animals, usually no larger than hares.

It hunts alone, usually between sundown and midnight.

While true vampire bats, for which it was formerly named, parasitically feed on the blood of larger animals, often as they sleep and usually with little ill effect, this species rather actively hunts and kills other animals.

The Black Drongo is found predominantly in open country and usually perches and hunts close to the ground.

It usually hunts from cover by a quick dash from inside a tree, but it will also catch prey by quartering hill slopes like other eagles, or make a stoop from a soaring position.

It usually hunts by horizontal pursuit, rather than the Peregrine Falcon's stoop from a height, and takes mainly bird prey in flight.

It hunts usually by sight for invertebrates including insects, earthworms, crustaceans, and molluscs.

Unlike European wolf hunts which were usually reserved for the nobility, North American wolf hunts were partaken by ordinary citizens, nearly all of them possessing firearms, thus the extermination of wolves in the lower 48 states was carried out in far less time than in Europe.

It usually hunts its prey on land, but occasionally ventures out into ponds to hunt frogs.

Unlike North American wolf hunts which were partaken by ordinary civilians, Eurasian wolf hunts were an activity usually reserved for the nobility.

While the puzzles comprising the early hunts were either linear ( after solving one puzzle, a new puzzle would be revealed ) or released en masse, since 1998 the puzzles have been released in rounds.

Scavenger hunts can easily be played either outdoors ( around town, parks, back yards, etc.

Group hunts, which are called mota, take place with between 4 and 30 men who use either spears for large animals ( like forest buffalo and elephant ) or iron-tipped arrows for duikers, other species of antelope, and water chevrotain.

Witch hunts were enough of a cultural problem in Europe that even as early as 785, the church made the burning of witches a crime itself punishable by death.

The Russian imperial hunts evolved from hunting traditions of early Russian rulers — Grand Princes and Tsars — under the influence of hunting customs of European royal courts.

Summer hunts extended from late June to about the first of September ; but might end early if hunting was successful.

Winter hunts were from late October until early April and were often to the southwest into what is now western Kansas.

Despite the influence of Christianity in the Byzantine Empire, venationes, bloody wild-beast hunts, continued as a form of popular entertainment during the early days of the Empire as part of the extra entertainment that went along with chariot racing.

; The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted ( 1987 ): The Stainless Steel Rat, early in his career, hunts the man who killed his mentor, but in the process must save a pacifist planet from an imminent attack.

The Short-eared Owl is often most regularly seen flying about in early morning or late day as it hunts over open habitats.

While early hunts involved a few dozen linear puzzles, recent hunts have increased in complexity, some involving as many as 130 distinct puzzles arranged in rounds, hidden rounds, and metapuzzles.

Note that hunts have quite a tradition in classical music, from early baroque keyboard music, over Vivaldi, several classical era composers and romantic opera composers to César Franck.

From an early age, Boone was one of the longhunters who hunted and trapped among the Native American nations along the western frontiers of Virginia, so-called because of the long time they spent away from home on hunts in the wilderness.

In a study of torture in Iran published in 1999, Iranian-born political historian Ervand Abrahamian included Iran along with " Stalinist Russia, Maoist China, and early modern Europe " of the Inquisition and witch hunts, as societies that " can be considered to be in a league of their own " in the systematic use of torture.

A keen huntsman from an early age, King held the rank of MFH ( Master of Foxhounds ) with the Belvoir and Badsworth hunts and was also Chairman of the Lord King XI cricket team.

Gossip columnist Elsa Maxwell popularized scavenger hunts in the United States with a series of exclusive New York parties starting in the early 1930s.

The ambush hunts are called ebaka, and they are performed by building perches in fruit trees from which the duikers eat dropped fruits and waiting there during feeding hours, which are early morning and late afternoon.

The review says the film is a reaction to " Mankiewicz ’ s own experiences during the communist witch hunts of the late 1940s, early 1950s which were initiated by Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Barnsdale lies in the immediate vicinity north and north-west of Doncaster, and which was formerly forested and a place of royal hunts, and also renowned as a haunt of the outlaw Robin Hood in early ballads.

Exotic wild beasts from the far reaches of the Roman Empire were brought to Rome and hunts were held in the morning prior to the afternoon main event of gladiatorial duels.

Angel hunts down the demon and the next morning brings the heart to the Summers ' home in a glass mixed with other ingredients.

The charges were driven by the testimony of children interviewed by mental health professionals using techniques later discredited as a contemporary version of witch hunts.

Groups that have had such accusations leveled against them include blood libel against the Jews by Apion in the 30s CE, Christians in the Roman empire later allegations of a Jewish conspiracy and the witch hunts of the 16th and 17th centuries.

The SRA panic repeated many of the features of historical moral panics and conspiracy theories such as the blood libel against Jews by Apion in the 30s AD, Christians in the Roman empire, later allegations of a Jewish conspiracy alleging the killing of Christian babies and desecration of the Eucharist, the witch hunts of the 16th and 17th centuries.

It worked to cure her, but later caused her to turn into the feline-like monster he currently hunts.

If the killed whale was pleased to ( during its being a guest for a half year ), then it can be hoped that it will return later, too: thus, also the future whale hunts will succeed.

His son Floyd later lived there with his family and sometimes accompanied Condon on his fossil hunts.

In the cold war atmosphere of the 1950s, when witch hunts later called the Lavender Scare were ruining the lives of many gay men and lesbian women in the United States, the parallel political atmosphere in Britain was virulently anti-homosexual.

For the same reasons of the sword hunts, later shoguns discouraged the production of guns so that, by the 1840s, it was a lost art.