Since both birds are stringy, and taste unpleasant, the skin and feathers could be kept and filled with the cooked, minced and seasoned flesh of tastier birds, like goose or chicken.

Since the 1990s to the present, responses to mad-cow disease, genetically modified foods, flu epidemics in pigs and birds, and an increase in foodborne illness outbreaks, agricultural pollution, and Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations ( CAFOs ) have led people to question where their food comes from and what is actually in it.

Since for all mother nature knows ( or could know ) it is possible that these insects will cross paths ( sometime, somewhere ) with insectivorous birds, they had better be designed with some avoidance machinery.

Since kingfishers are high up in the food chain, they are vulnerable to build-up of chemicals, and river pollution by industrial and agricultural products excludes the birds from many stretches of otherwise suitable rivers that would be habitats.

Since these birds are cavity nesters, their eggs do not need to be camouflaged and the white color helps the parents to see them in dim light.

Since fish diverges from the main stem of vertebrate evolution earlier than either birds or mammals, the cytochrome c of both mammals and birds should be equally different from the cytochrome c of fish.

Since they take fruit in flight as other species " hawk " for insects, they are believed to have evolved from insect-eating birds.

Since the late 19th century, it has been accepted by palaeontologists, and celebrated in lay reference works, as being the oldest known bird, though a study in 2011 has cast doubt on this assessment, suggesting instead that it is a non-avialan dinosaur closely related to the origin of birds.

Since the advent of phylogenetic nomenclature, the term Reptilia has fallen out of favor with many taxonomists, who have used Sauropsida in its place to include a monophyletic group containing the traditional reptiles and the birds.

Since then a number of storm-petrels exhibiting plumage and structural characteristics have been recorded at sea, principally in the North Atlantic, while birds were trapped during the summer months in France ( 1989 ), England ( 1989 birds, 1990 birds retrapped from 1991 to 1994 ), Spain ( 1994 ), Norway ( 1996, 1997 ), and again Madeira ( 1991, 1994 ),.

Since 1973, the American Ornithologists ' Union has elected to merge these passerine birds as one species.

Since 1998, a sample of birds have been fitted with unique leg bands or radio transmitters for monitoring reproductive success and survival, revealing that typically only 30 % of ducklings on Laysan Island survive to fledge.

Since this habitat management regime was begun in the 1970s, the birds ' numbers have steadily risen, though they are still at dangerously low levels.

Since then, it has been regularly sighted, including immature birds, suggesting a resident breeding population might already exist in that country.

Since then, the site has attracted many species of birds and animals.

Since then, FNPF has rehabilitated and released many endangered birds onto the island of Nusa Penida, including many Bali Mynas supplied from multiple breeders.

Since pythons eat endangered birds and alligators, these snakes present a new and serious danger to the fragile ecosystem.

Since these species are not closely related to modern birds, either the alula evolved twice, or it did so more than 130 million years ago.

Since the birds are bred mainly for efficient meat production, producing eggs can be a challenge.

Since modern birds that have symmetrical feathers are flightless, and the skeletal structure of Protarchaeopteryx would not support flapping flight, it is assumed that it was flightless as well.

Since the land he desired lay within the great northern empire of the Hudson's Bay Company, he purchased great blocks of the Comany's stock with the view to controlling its policies.

' In the second case, he cites an example that demonstrates ignorance of statistical principles in the lay press: ' Since no such proof is possible genetically modified food is harmless, the article in The New York Times was what is called a " bad rap " against the U. S. Department of Agriculture-a bad rap based on a junk-science belief that it's possible to prove a null hypothesis.

Since the U. S. Supreme Court ruling in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., lay judges have become " gatekeepers " of scientific testimony.

Since demand for the product is highly inelastic, consumers continue to buy the product at the higher price and so the manager is not forced to lay off workers.

Since 1972 the minor orders and the subdiaconate have been replaced by lay ministries and clerical tonsure no longer takes place, except in some Traditionalist Catholic groups, and the clerical state is acquired, even in those groups, by Holy Orders.

Since the original design came from wooden temples and the triglyphs were real heads of wooden beams, every column had to bear a beam which lay across the centre of the column.

Since it is impossible to have pleasure without pain, Cārvāka thought that wisdom lay in enjoying pleasure and avoiding pain as far as possible.

Since rounded bricks are somewhat unstable, Mesopotamian bricklayers would lay a row of bricks perpendicular to the rest every few rows.

Since late 2001 Karzai has been trying for peace in his country, going as far as pardoning militants that lay down weapons and join the rebuilding process.

Since he had spent much of his early life moving from place to place and from job to job when he was able to lay down roots in Boonton he developed a strong loyalty to the town and committed himself to its development.

Since World War II, a number of structural changes have taken place within the Church of Norway, mostly to institutionalize lay participation in the life of the church.

Since then, Buddhism has flourished, and Sri Lankan monks and expatriate lay people have been prominent in spreading Theravada Buddhism in Asia, the West, and even in Africa.

Since then, Magistrates ' Courts in Northern Ireland have consisted of legally-qualified Resident Magistrates ( now known as District Judges ( Magistrates ' Courts )) sitting alone, except in cases involving children, where two lay panelists sat with the magistrate.

Since Franco had relied on thousands of North African soldiers anti-Islamic sentiment " was played down but the centuries old myth of the Moorish threat lay at the base of the construction of the " Communist menace " as a modern-day Eastern plague.

Since the peers were never twelve during the coronation in early periods, due to the fact that most lay peerages were forfeited to or merged in the crown, delegates were chosen by the king, mainly from the princes of the blood.

Since under contemporary inheritance law George would have been able to lay claim to Sir John's property on his death, Sir John engaged in a lengthy parliamentary campaign to disinherit his son via a private Act, setting out to " reverse the fundamental laws of hereditary succession ".

Since almost thirty European countries lay claim to fragments of the holy nails, Blom ( 2002 ) holds that " Constantine also understood the value of these objects in diplomacy "; Several were sent off to various dignitaries, one of whom was Princess Theodelinda.

Since the lay brothers could not recite the Divine Office in Latin, they would instead pray easily memorizable prayers such as the Our Father or the Hail Mary as many as 150 times per day.

Since the Second Vatican Council, the distinction between choir monks and lay brothers has been deemphasized, as the council allowed the Divine Office to be said in the vernacular language, effectively opening participation to all of the monks.

Since 1980, it has been customary for visiting foreign dignitaries, especially from historical allies of the People's Republic of China, such as post-Soviet states, to lay wreaths at the monument when visiting Beijing.

Since the move to lay oversight, debate has erupted many times over how much influence the Roman Catholic Church should have on the affairs of the university.

Since the flight, he has made over seventy public appearances representing space life sciences research before higher education, medical, veterinary, and lay organizations, and visited over twenty K-12 schools around the United States and Canada.

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