It was Giselle, the fille de chambre, come to clean the room, and while she stood before him with ears pricked up and regard all curiosity, explaining her errand, Alex could see from the corner of his eye the doctor doing all he could to calm the displeased bird.

He saw an ' Island of Sheep ' and a ' Paradise of Birds ', which some say could be the Faroes with its dense bird population and sheep.

A long pole surmounted by the figure of a bird, usually a dove, derived from the standards used in battle, was placed by the family in the ground at the home of a man who had died far afield in war and who could not be brought home for funeral and burial.

What the figure represents is not known ; it could be a bird, a horse, a woman or a totally abstract shape.

When the bird returned, it used the shamir to break the glass, whereupon the men scared the bird, causing it to drop the worm, which the men could then bring to Solomon.

The demonic monkey in " Green Tea " could be a delusion of the story's protagonist, who is the only person to see it ; in " The Familiar ", Captain Barton's death seems to be supernatural, but is not actually witnessed, and the ghostly owl may be a real bird.

Aristotle ( 384 – 322 BC ) was puzzled by the idea that there could be a first bird or egg and concluded that both the bird and egg must have always existed:

For there could not have been a first egg to give a beginning to birds, or there should have been a first bird which gave a beginning to eggs ; for a bird comes from an egg.

Furthermore, they noted that quill knobs are almost never found in flightless bird species today, and that their presence in Velociraptor ( presumed to have been flightless due to its relatively large size and short forelimbs ) is evidence that the ancestors of dromaeosaurids could fly, making Velociraptor and other large members of this family secondarily flightless, though it is possible the large wing feathers inferred in the ancestors of Velociraptor had a purpose other than flight.

" I can complain that by the way we could scarce see a dog, crow, kite, raven or any other bird, or anything to anatomize, only some few miserable people, the relics of the war and the plague where famine had made anatomies before I came.

This meant that the bird could no longer be used for Quidditch purposes.

Its title was meant to evoke a spring season in which no bird songs could be heard, because they had all vanished as a result of pesticide abuse.

In some Māori legends, Pouakai kill humans, which scientists believe could have been possible if the name relates to the eagle, given the massive size and strength of the bird.

Thus, the name could be a simple allusion to the bird feed-like minced texture and appearance of the sauce.

He could assume a different bird form for each magic power he possessed.

Fascinated by birds of all kinds, she raised ducks, hens, geese, and any sort of exotic bird she could obtain, while incorporating images of peacocks into her books.

In some Māori legends Pouakai kill humans, which could have been possible if the name relates to the Haast's Eagle given the massive size and strength of the bird ( which is believed to have hunted Moa weighing up to ).

The bird who could fly to the highest altitude would be made king.

* it can be shown that the destruction of a nest, egg, bird, animal or an animal ’ s shelter was accidental from a lawful operation and could not have been avoided.

The air pressure from a dive could possibly damage a bird's lungs, but small bony tubercles on a falcon's nostrils guide the powerful airflow away from the nostrils, enabling the bird to breathe more easily while diving by reducing the change in air pressure.

Let every policeman and park guard keep his eye on John and Jane Doe, lest one piece of bread be placed undetected and one bird survive.

The site may be on one of the major flyways of migratory birds or have its own resident bird life.

She likens Inanna to a great storm bird who swoops down on the lesser gods and sends them fluttering off like surprised bats.

Valmiki felt very pleased on seeing the happy bird couple.

This machine was an ornithopter, with flapping wings similar to those of a bird, first presented in his Codex on the Flight of Birds in 1505.

The women wore the skin of seal or sea-otter and the men wore bird skin parkas, the feathers turned in or out depending on the weather.

The Orioles wear their black alternate jerseys for Friday night games with the alternate " O's " cap, whether at home or on the road ; the cartoon bird batting helmet is still used with this uniform ( see description on home and road design below ).

It is the national bird of the United States of America and appears on its Seal.

* Bird ringing, or bird banding, placing a numbered bands of metal on birds ' legs for identification

A recent report ( 2006 ) by the NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, California, indicates that the increased rat presence on Clipperton Island has led to a decline in both crab and bird populations, causing a corresponding increase in both vegetation and coconut palms on the island.

God reverses the covenant made with Noah in which he said, " The fear and the dread of you will be on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the air, on all that moves on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea.

He began working on the group of sculptures that are known as " Bird in Space " — simple shapes representing a bird in flight.

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

Vicious sports an emaciated, embittered look, wields a katana for a weapon and is always accompanied by a strange, crow-like bird perched on his shoulder.

Along with the passage of the Endangered Species Act, the US ban on DDT is cited by scientists as a major factor in the comeback of the bald eagle, the national bird of the United States, from near-extinction in the contiguous US.

The success of the pairing prompted both acts to record repeatedly through 1950, producing such rhythmically comical fare as " The Woody Woodpecker Song " ( based on the frisky bird from the Walter Lantz cartoons, and another Billboard hit for the quartet ), " Put ' em in a Box, Tie ' em with a Ribbon ( And Throw ' em in the Deep Blue Sea )," " The Big Brass Band from Brazil ," " It's a Quiet Town ( In Crossbone County )," " Amelia Cordelia McHugh ( Mc Who?

During his time at the museum he produced numerous publications on bird taxonomy, and in 1942 his first book, Systematics and the Origin of Species, which completed the evolutionary synthesis started by Darwin.

He noted that the German society was " far more scientific, far more interested in life histories and breeding bird species, as well as in reports on recent literature.

A. Allen, Frank Chapman, and Jonathan Dwight, the society concentrated on taxonomy and later became a clearing house for bird banding and sight records.

On average, a mammal has a brain roughly twice as large as that of a bird of the same body size, and ten times as large as that of a reptile of the same body size.

In the ringing studies birds ringed as chicks are recapatured close to their original nests, a tendency which can be extreme at times ; in Laysan Albatross the average distance between hatching site and the site where a bird established its own territory was, and a study of Cory's Shearwaters nesting near Corsica found that of nine out of 61 male chicks that returned to breed at their natal colony actually bred in the burrow they were raised in.

# The average number of lice per host tends to be higher in large-bodied bird species than in small ones.

This tendency, known as philopatry, is so strong that a study of Laysan Albatrosses found that the average distance between hatching site and the site where a bird established its own territory was 22 m ; another study, this time on Cory's Shearwaters nesting near Corsica, found that of nine out of 61 male chicks that returned to breed at their natal colony bred in the burrow they were raised in, and two actually bred with their own mother.

It is a cormorant-like bird with an average body length of, a wingspan of, and a mass of up to.

A Common Blackbird has an average life expectancy of 2. 4 years, and, based on data from bird ringing, the oldest recorded age is 21 years and 10 months.

On average, Great Grey Shrikes get a chance at four breeding attempts during their life, with most birds in the wild getting eaten by a bird of prey or carnivorous mammal or dying of other causes before the end of their fifth winter.

On average they are larger than other parrots ; however, the Cockatiel, the smallest cockatoo species, is a small bird.

The Wandering Albatross has the largest wingspan of any living bird, typically ranging from, with a mean span of in the Bird Island, South Georgia colony and an average of exactly in 123 birds measured off the coast of Malabar, New South Wales.

One Arctic Tern, ringed as a chick ( not yet able to fly ) on the Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast in eastern Great Britain in summer 1982, reached Melbourne, Australia in October 1982, a sea journey of over 22, 000 km ( 14, 000 statute miles ) in just three months from fledging — an average of over 240 km per day, and one of the longest journeys ever recorded for a bird.

The species also has the second largest average wingspan of any North American bird, after the California Condor.

The maximum recorded age is 27 years and 5 months for a Dutch bird, but the average life span for wild birds will be much shorter than this, and is likely to be similar to that of other wild ducks, such as the Mallard, at about two years.

Compared to an average bird, all procellariids have a high aspect ratio ( meaning their wings are long and narrow ) and a heavy wing loading.

Lifespan for this bird is unusually long for a bird of such rather small size, with an average of 20 years and a maximum recorded lifespan of 36 years.

The Northern Bald Ibis is a large, glossy black bird, 70 – 80 cm ( 28 – 31 in ) long with a 125 – 135 cm ( 49 – 53 in ) wingspan and an average weight of 1. 0 – 1. 3 kg ( 35 – 46 oz ).

With a mean weight of around, it is the world's heaviest flying bird species on average although large male bustards and swans can exceed the pelican in maximum weight.

In the earlier series, Terry would succeed in seducing a ' dolly bird ', resulting in at least one scene of female semi-nudity per average episode, though as the series became more popular these instances were reduced ( and some repeat viewings, even those post-watershed, toned such scenes down ).

Though the Razorbill's average lifespan is roughly 13 years, a bird ringed in the UK in 1967 has survived for at least 41 years — a record for the species.

On average, each male bird incorporates imitations of 75 other species into its song, with rather more African than northern species mimicked.

The Ruff can breed from its second year, and the average lifespan for birds that have passed the chick stage is about 4. 4 years, although a Finnish bird lived to a record 13 years and 11 months.

The average mass of an adult bird is.

Body mass can vary from, with an average bird anywhere between.

It is relatively large bird, at around 70 – 122 cm ( 28 – 48 in ) long and an average weight of 3 kg ( 6. 6 lbs ) in females and 5 kg ( 11 lbs ) in males.