Many of the smaller birds, such as the sunbirds, bee-eaters, the parrots and kingfishers, as well as the larger plantain-eaters, are noted for the brilliance of their plumage.

Many of these booms may be attributable to bird-scarers, automated cannon-like devices used by farmers to scare birds away from the many vineyards, orchards and crops.

Many birds in other families are also commonly called " finches ", including some species in the very similar-looking waxbills or estrildid finches ( family Passeridae, subfamily Estrildinae ) of the Old World tropics and Australia ; several groups of the bunting and American sparrow family ( Emberizidae ); and Darwin's finches of the Galapagos islands, which provided evidence of natural selection and are now recognized to be peculiar tanagers ( Thraupidae ).

Many fragments of ceramic figurines have been recovered from there, figures of animals and birds, and also fertility dolls.

Many birds have become extinct as a result of human activity, especially birds endemic to islands, including many flightless birds ( see a more complete list under extinct birds ).

Many street signs in Audubon Park are named after birds drawn by him.

Many birds are named after their calls, such as the Bobwhite quail, the Weero, the Morepork, the killdeer, chickadee, the cuckoo, the chiffchaff, the whooping crane and the whip-poor-will.

Many collectors limit their collecting to particular countries, certain time periods or particular subjects ( called " topicals ") like birds or aircraft on stamps.

Many nesting birds rely on them for food.

Many large crocodilians swallow stones ( called gastroliths or stomach stones ) which may act as ballast to balance their bodies or assist in crushing food, similar to grit in birds.

Many plants that are pollinated by insects, bats, or birds have highly specialized flowers modified to promote pollination by a specific pollinator that is also correspondingly adapted.

Many insectivorous birds are also noted as beneficial in agriculture.

Many early studies on the benefits or damages caused by birds in fields were made by analysis of stomach contents and observation of feeding behaviour.

Many species of birds have been driven to extinction by human activities.

Many species of bird may be considered partly or exclusively predatory ; however, in ornithology the term " bird of prey " applies only to birds of the families listed below.

Many species of small rodents are active at night because most of the dozen or so birds of prey that hunt them are diurnal.

Many species nest on buildings, and the House and Eurasian Tree Sparrows in particular inhabit cities in large numbers, so sparrows may be the most familiar of all wild birds.

Many early classifications of the sparrows placed them as close relatives of the weavers among the various families of small seed-eating birds, based on the similarity of their breeding behaviour, bill structure, and moult, among other characters.

Many plants pollinated by hummingbirds produce flowers in shades of red, orange, and bright pink, though the birds will take nectar from flowers of many colors.

Many birds preferring wet grasslands live in the Eider-Treene Valley.

Many species of fish, sharks, mollusks such as abalone and squid, birds, and sea turtles also live in the bay.

Many heath specialist birds are present in the heaths which include ; Lewin's Honeyeater ( Meliphaga lewinii ), New Holland Honeyeater ( Phylidonyris novaehollandiae ), Beautiful Firetail ( Stagonopleura bella ), Chestnut-rumped Heathwren ( Hylacola pyrrhopygia ) and the Southern Emu-wren

Many of these aspects will be seen as comparable to those of the ideal detective, but where the detective is active and militant, the jazz musician is passive, almost a victim of society.

Many films enjoy cult status because they may be seen as ridiculously awful, for example Plan 9 from Outer Space ( 1958 ) or The Room ( 2003 ).

Many of the Scots who immigrated there were either Roman Catholics or Presbyterians, which can be seen in a number of island landmarks and place names.

Many of his principles, therefore, found their way back into the mainstream animation consciousness, and can be seen in films such as The Emperor's New Groove and Lilo & Stitch.

Many were seen as reflections of broad underlying conflicts or maladaptive reactions to life problems, rooted in a distinction between neurosis and psychosis ( roughly, anxiety / depression broadly in touch with reality, or hallucinations / delusions appearing disconnected from reality ).

Many overlapping methods and processes can be seen when comparing Product design, Industrial design and Engineering.

British influence can also be seen with the ' English Cycle ' of Disney animated films, which include Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Jungle Book, Robin Hood, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone, The Rescuers and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.

Many artists sketched their compositions on this underlayer, which would never be seen, in a red pigment called sinopia ; these drawings are also called sinopia.

Many mementos of the Gallipoli campaign can be seen in the museum at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, Australia, and at the Auckland War Memorial Museum in Auckland, New Zealand.

Many were middle-and upper class women who had never worked for wages or seen the inside of a hospital.

Many had seen Dilthey ’ s work as an outright attack on experimental psychology, Ebbinghaus included, and he responded to Dilthey with a personal letter and also a long scathing public article.

Many groups held dualistic beliefs, maintaining that reality was composed into two radically opposing parts: matter, seen as evil, and spirit, seen as good.

" Many have seen in Thoreau one of the precursors of ecologism and anarcho-primitivism represented today in John Zerzan.

Many examples can be seen at an annual competition hosted by the All Japan Swordsmith Association, under the auspices of the Nihontō Bunka Shinkō Kyōkai ( Society for the promotion of Japanese Sword Culture ).

Many components of the animal cell can be seen recycling and sharing their membranous units.

Many notable objects are too faint to be seen with the naked eye.

Many LGBT Neopagans were initially attracted to Neopagan religions because of this inclusion, in which their relationships are seen on an equal footing.

Many traditional and folk religions including African traditional religions and Native American religions can be seen as pantheistic, or a mixture of pantheism and other doctrines such as polytheism and animism.

Many religions attach spiritual importance to particular places: the place of birth or death of founders or saints, or to the place of their " calling " or spiritual awakening, or of their connection ( visual or verbal ) with the divine, or to locations where miracles were performed or witnessed, or locations where a deity is said to live or be " housed ," or any site that is seen to have special spiritual powers.

Many later passage tombs were constructed at the tops of hills or mountains, indicating that their builders intended them to be seen from a great distance.

Many things can happen to packets as they travel from origin to destination, resulting in the following problems as seen from the point of view of the sender and receiver:

Many were seen as radical or as ahead of their time in their social criticism.

Many of the radicals felt that Germany's lawmakers were continuing authoritarian policies and the public's apparent acquiescence was seen as a continuation of the indoctrination the Nazis had pioneered in society ( Volksgemeinschaft ).

Many critics have seen in this development pattern ( which was circularly distributed in every direction ) also a quick solution to a problem of public order ( keeping the unwelcome poorest classes together with the criminals, in this way better controlled, comfortably remote from the elegant " official " town ).