Roosting is usually high in trees away from night hunting predators such as Jaguars and usually in a family group.

Roosting is usually communal, with two to six adults and juveniles roosting in contact with each other, usually near the end of a hanging branch up to above ground, within their activity space.

On the Justice of Roosting Chickens: Reflections on the Consequences of U. S. Imperial Arrogance and Criminality is a 2003 book written by Ward Churchill and published by AK Press.

She opined that many people, once " the shock had faded ", thought " the United States had it coming ", and that " orld bullies, even if their heart is in the right place, will in the end pay the price " ( the so-called " Roosting Chickens argument ").

The essay was followed by the book On the Justice of Roosting Chickens in 2003.

Image: House Crows roosting I IMG 1392. jpg | Roosting in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Roosting, nesting and the bulk of foraging take place in trees, in contrast with the ground-foraging behaviour of its relative, the Australian Magpie.

Roosting individuals used the pole timber stands, but less ( P < 0. 001 ) than would be expected based on availability.

Roosting Mexican Spotted Owls may have selected areas with greater southwestern white pine densities in southwestern New Mexico.

Roosting, foraging, preening, bathing and dust-bathing or anting are communal activities.

The " Roosting Chickens " of the title comes from a 1963 Malcolm X speech about the John F. Kennedy assassination, calling it " merely a case of ' chickens coming home to roost.

Churchill used the term " Roosting Chickens " in a short essay Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens first published on September 12, 2001.

A new South is emerging after the post-bellum years of hesitation, uncertainty, and lack of action from the Negro in defining his new role in the amorphously defined socio-political organizations of the white man.

Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.

And the action is consistently presented with regard for this distinction.

But Aristotle kept the principle of levels and even augmented it by describing in the Poetics what kinds of character and action must be imitated if the play is to be a vehicle of serious and important human truths.

Who will deny that in a vast portion of the South the Federal action is incompatible with the Jeffersonian concept of `` the consent of the governed ''??

This objective is adhered to throughout the duration of the action.

And ( D ) all action of a physical kind pertinent to the mission is relegated to the line of men on the lower rank.

Let us quote once more from R. G. Collingwood: `` History is properly concerned with the actions of human beings Regarded from the outside, an action is an event or series of events occurring in the physical world ; ;

regarded from the inside, it is the carrying into action of a certain thought The historian's business is to penetrate to the inside of the actions with which he is dealing and reconstruct or rather rethink the thoughts which constituted them.

Next best to destroying an army is to deprive it of its freedom of action.

As to our action, let us align ourselves with the purpose expressed by Jesus in the Lord's Prayer: `` Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven ''.

A tragedy, by his definition, is an imitation of an action that is serious, of a certain magnitude, and complete in itself.

And the entirety of the natural world is party to the action.

Milton's name being fourth is neither too high nor too low to be assigned to the arbitrary action of vice-chancellor, proctor, master, or other mighty hand.

But one need not always be sure that the action is either wise or conclusive.

`` and the more the action claims to be total, the smaller is the part of man engaged ''.

From this point of view the `` militant mobs '' of the past, stirred into action by one ideology or another, were all composed of `` intellectuals '' -- and this is not the level on which the essence of mankind can be discovered.

I understand very well about Lauro Di Bosis and how his action is symbolic.

Probably the best answer to this kind of entering wedge is congressional action requiring the Federal Communications Commission to ban such advertising through its licensing power.

Why, then, with these voluntary barricades and some state laws barring liquor ads, is it necessary to seek congressional action??

The board's action shows what free enterprise is up against in our complex maze of regulatory laws.

It will automatically tighten and become stiff if the bird starts to lose hold of the branch on which it is perching.

A songbird is a bird belonging to the clade Passeri of the perching birds ( Passeriformes ).

There is a third perching bird lineage, the Acanthisitti from New Zealand, of which only two species remain alive today.

Not knowing the fact that at the time of dispersal, the Indian Ocean was much narrower than it is today, and that South America was closer to the Antarctic, one would be hard pressed to explain the presence of many " ancient " lineages of perching birds in Africa, as well as the mainly South American distribution of the suboscines.

Like other perching birds ( passerines ), it is affected by external and internal parasites and is vulnerable to predation by cats and birds of prey.

Valentin confronts Sebastian the Toymaker and reveals that it was he who put him in the wheelchair, but forgives Sebastian the Toymaker for his actions, which is why he was perching on his shoulders all those years.

The Carrion Crow is noisy, perching on the top of a tree and calling three or four times in quick succession, with a slight pause between each series of croaks.

The gatherings of neighbor groups ( see above ) cease when nesting is underway, and when the eggs are nearly ready to lay, the male guards his partner closely, perching higher than her to watch for threats and frequently feeding her.

* Subfamily: Anatinae, dabbling ducks and moa-nalos ( The dabbling duck group, of worldwide distribution, were previously restricted to just one or two genera, but had been extended to include 8 extant genera and about 55 living species, including several genera formerly known as the " perching ducks "; mtDNA on the other hand confirms that the genus Anas is over-lumped and casts doubt on the diving duck affiliations of several genera below.

The Collared Treepie, Black-faced Treepie or Black-browed Treepie ( Dendrocitta frontalis ) is an Asian treepie, a small perching bird of the Corvidae ( crow ) family.

In each continent, one species ( Goldcrest in Eurasia and Golden-crowned Kinglet in North America ) is a conifer specialist ; these have deeply grooved pads on their feet for perching on conifer twigs, and a long hind toe and claw for clinging vertically.

The Little Green Bee-Eater is also becoming common in urban and sub-urban neighborhoods, and has been observed perching on television antennae, only to launch into a brief, zig-zag flight formation to catch an insect, then return to the same perch and consume the meal.

Anatomically they are separated from the true swifts by skeletal details in the cranium and palate, the anatomy of the tarsus, and a non-reversible hind toe which is used for perching on branches ( an activity that true swifts are unable to engage in ).

The Wood Duck is a medium-sized perching duck.

The Mandarin Duck ( Aix galericulata ), or just Mandarin, is a medium-sized, East Asian perching duck, closely related to the North American Wood Duck.

The transition between perching and the freeze position is gradual and hardly perceptible to the observer.

This is common in songbirds and other perching birds, as well as hunting birds like eagles, hawks, and falcons.

In the field, the relationship between Choughs and Apostlebirds is immediately apparent: both species are highly social, spend much of their time foraging through leaf litter with a very distinctive gait, calling to one another almost constantly, and both species respond to a human interloper by flying heavily to a nearby tree, where they wait for the disturbance to pass, often perching close together in twos and threes and allopreening.

In birds with anisodactyl or heterodactyl feet, the hallux is opposed or directed backwards and allows for grasping and perching.

It is one of the most arboreal grouse, fairly well adapted to perching and moving about in trees.

The preferred perching tree of the Northern Hawk-Owl is the spruce tree.

Like all swifts, the Chimney Swift is incapable of perching ; instead, it clings to vertical surfaces, distinguished from passerine birds.