The Blue Crane ( Anthropoides paradiseus ), also known as the Stanley Crane and the Paradise Crane, is the national bird of South Africa.

They will also visit ground-level bird baths.

The coyote will also target any species of bird that nests on the ground.

They also commonly eat grass, shoots, and many other forms of plant matter, as well as fungi, insects and other arthropods, small frogs, worms, and bird eggs.

Chipmunks play an important role as prey for various predatory mammals and birds, but are also opportunistic predators themselves, particularly with regard to bird eggs and nestlings.

The island hosts introduced bird species from many different regions, including Cattle Egrets ( Bubulcus ibis ), Indian Barred Ground Dove, also called the Zebra Dove ( Geopelia striata ), Turtle Dove ( Streptopleia picturata ), Indian Mynah ( Acridotheres tristis ), Madagascar Fody ( Foudia madagascariensis ), and chickens ( Gallus gallus ).

In New Guinea, Mayr collected several thousand bird skins ( he named 26 new bird species during his lifetime ) and, in the process also named 38 new orchid species.

Though an egg appears to be like the stone of a tomb, a bird hatches from it with life ; similarly, the Easter egg, for Christians, is a reminder that Jesus rose from the grave, and that those who believe will also experience eternal life.

* The bird also appears in Farley Mowat's Sea of Slaughter.

A common toy that is also a heat engine is a drinking bird.

" arpa or harpa " from ancient Greek verb ἅρπῶ " arpo or harpo " meaning grasp, catch or snatch modern Greek αρπάζω ( arpazo or harpazo ), also ancient Greek ἅρπη ( arpe or harpe ) harpy meaning Vulture eagle-like bird, modern greek αρπακτικό ( arpactico or harpactico ).

On December 29, 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt transferred control of Johnston Atoll to the United States Navy in order to establish an air station, and also to the Department of the Interior to administer the bird refuge.

The main diet of most lorisids consists of insects, but they also consume bird eggs and small vertebrates as well as fruits and sap.

In this feature, Adrian Shine of the Loch Ness Centre was also interviewed and suggested that the footage showed an otter, seal or water bird.

Well known examples of his work also include Drawing Hands, a work in which two hands are shown, each drawing the other ; Sky and Water, in which light plays on shadow to morph the water background behind fish figures into bird figures on a sky background ; and Ascending and Descending, in which lines of people ascend and descend stairs in an infinite loop, on a construction which is impossible to build and possible to draw only by taking advantage of quirks of perception and perspective.

However, some species exhibit sex-role reversed behavior in which it is males that are most selective in mate choice ; the best-known examples of this pattern occur in some fishes of the family Syngnathidae, though likely examples have also been found in amphibian and bird species.

Deucalion also sends a pigeon to find out about the situation of the world and the bird return with an olive branch.

Fruit is the most important component of an orangutan's diet, however, the apes will also eat vegetation, bark, honey, insects and even bird eggs.

It is also home to more than 240 plants, 26 of which are endemic, and 50 bird species, including the critically endangered Puerto Rican Amazon ( Amazona vittata ).

Polyandry also occurs in some primates such as marmosets, mammal groups, the marsupial genus ' Antechinus and bandicoots, around 1 % of all bird species, such as jacanas, insects such as honeybees, and fish such as pipefish.

Caponization also affects the disposition of the bird.

The understanding of the divine spiritual endowment of the rooster within Islam, may be evidenced in the words of Muhammad of that Abrahamic religion in one of the six canonical hadith collections of Sunni Islam, stating that of " when you hear the crowing of cocks, ask for Allah's Blessings for they have seen an angel " as well as the mention where " the cock is also venerated in Islam: it was the giant bird seen by Muhammad in the First Heaven crowing.

The logo artwork was also subtly altered, with an arched eyebrow and a forward-facing pupil suggesting a more aggressive-looking bird.

Communicating through infantile gibberish or babbling, the Teletubbies were designed to bear resemblance to actual toddlers dwelling within a beautiful, grassy floral landscape that is also populated by rabbits with bird calls audible in the background.

Darwin proposes sexual selection, driven by competition between males for mates, to explain sexually dimorphic features such as lion manes, deer antlers, peacock tails, bird songs, and the bright plumage of some male birds.

It appears on the coat of arms, various coins, features prominently in Indigenous Australian mythology, and hundreds of places are named after the bird.

Northfield also features a large bird sanctuary, dedicated to remaining open space in perpetuity.

There are several recreational parks in Pudsey, the largest is Pudsey Park ; features include Pets Corner, aquarium, bird houses, tropical greenhouse, a " Pudsey Bear " ( made of vegetation ) and a large play area for children.

Explorers ' Creek opened in May 2009 and features three areas – a water play area, a tropical bird house and a walk-through Lorikeet feeding area.

The two common names for this species both refer to features visible when the bird is in its breeding plumage ; in such plumage, it has an all-black neck and a spray of golden plumes on each side of its head.

A bird matching the features of caniceps was seen on the island of Maldives.

Then, in 1994, episode titled Bad Mood Bobby from the Animaniacs segment Goodfeathers, features a cameo by the mynah bird.

Frank Tashlin's cartoon satire The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos ( 1937 ) features a caricature of Powell, a bird named " Dick Fowl ".

The well-known cuckoo clock features a mechanical bird and is fitted with bellows and pipes that imitate the call of the Common Cuckoo.

Other notable features include the Brahmaputra River, the mystery of the bird suicides in Jatinga, numerous temples including Kamakhya of Tantric sect.

One of the best identification features is the long wings, which extend beyond the tail when the bird is on the ground.

One of the best identification features is the long wings, which extend beyond the tail when the bird is on the ground.

These include long or restrictive ducts, bird or rodent nests in the termination, crushed or kinked flex transition hose, terminations with screen-like features, and condensation within the duct due to un-insulated ducts traveling through cold spaces, such as a crawl space or attic.

Another might be the perception of ratites retaining neotenic features and thus being mistaken for enormous chicks of a presumably more massive bird.

Rewa's Village has all the features of a true kainga, including a marae area, chief's whare ( house ), kauta ( cooking shelter ), whata ( bench where food was placed ), tall whata, weapons store, pataka ( raised food store ), enclosure for the tohunga ( a wise person who advised the community on just about everything ), rahui ( a post marking tapu or out of bounds limits ), whare made of bark, waka tiwai ( fishing canoe ), bird snare, hangi pit ( ground oven ), genuine historic canoes, family enclosure, rua ( storage area ) for kumara ( sweet potato ) and a paepae haumati ( the basic toilet system which was flushed twice daily by the tide ).

Though the movie features excellent songs they all depict the situation like nothing else could, like a prisoner singing an ode to an imprisoned bird, " O Panchhi Pyare " sung by Asha Bhosle and Asha Bhosle's touching, ' Ab ke Baras Bhej Bhaiya ko Babul ' composed in ' Raga Pilu ', excellently uses the folk idiom of a traditional song of a newly married girl longing for her maternal home, ( maika ), but being sung by a prison inmate of Kalyani, immediately conveys the irony in its placement.

Lastly, Pilotwings 64 features a " Birdman " mode that puts the character in a bird suit and gives players the opportunity to freely explore the game's detailed, object-dense environments set among its four distinct islands.

Officially opened in February 2007, having been planned and built over a 17 year period, the € 32 million facility features interactive media displays which explore topics such as the origin of the cliffs in local and global geological contexts, and the bird and fish life in the area.

The Feathered Serpent deity of Olmec, Aztec and Mayan cultures was depicted as having the combined features of the quetzal bird and rattlesnake.

The flag, adopted in 1978, features the national bird emblem, the sisserou parrot, which also appears on the coat of arms granted July 21, 1961.

The Whitehouse Nature Center features six self-guided trails, 400 plant species, 168 bird species, of oak-hickory and flood-plain forest, a tall-grass prairie and spring in the Adele D. Whitehouse Wildflower Garden, an arboretum of Michigan trees and shrubs, of farmland and research projects, and an interpretative building with classrooms, observation room, porch, and restrooms.

The Spur-winged Goose ( Plectropterus gambensis ) is a large bird in the family Anatidae, related to the geese and the shelducks, but distinct from both of these in a number of anatomical features, and therefore treated in its own subfamily, the Plectropterinae.

The obverse of the seal on the right features a bald eagle, the national bird and symbol of the United States.