In short, he finds he holds a belief about the bird, and that belief is justified if any is, but he is not acquainted at all with the processes that led to the belief that justified him in having it.

The bird often holds a bicephalous snake in its beak.

In the episode Desert Island Dish, Francine holds up a cage containing a swallow and then shows a coconut, saying the bird was carrying the coconut.

The city is home to several annual community events, such as their old-fashioned Fourth of July Celebration, and also holds a bird festival that attracts bird lovers from around the region and beyond.

Thus a cask standing on end represents the mountain on which Christ is tempted by the Devil ; thunder is imitated by the report of a gun ; in order to signify that the Devil had entered into him, Judas holds a bird of black plumage before his mouth and makes it flutter.

Its bill is thin, straight and sharp, and the bird often holds it at an uptilted angle.

When the end of a twig holds a supply of berries that only one bird at a time can reach, members of a flock may line up along the twig and pass berries beak to beak down the line so that each bird gets a chance to eat.

A female Bar-tailed Godwit holds the record for the longest non-stop flight for a land bird.

It holds the record for most songs given in a single day among bird species.

The university organizes a wide range of other international academic conferences ( many under the aegis of the Hofstra Cultural Center ), holds an annual Shakespeare festival in its own replica of the Globe Theatre, and has both an arboretum and bird sanctuary.

A single white egg is laid and the incubating bird covers it entirely and holds the tail flush with the tree to avoid breaking the outline and appears like a lichen covered snag.

The males have chestnut undertail coverts and these are visible as the bird usually holds the 6 – 8 cm long tail raised upright.

* A female figure holds a bird in her upraised right hand on plate f. Her left arm is horizontal, supporting a man and a dog lying on its back.

* In another Stephen King novel, Wolves of the Calla ( the fifth book in The Dark Tower series ), a character holds an " opopanax feather ", thus suggesting that it is the name of a bird.

The painting is stylized and depicts the three children holding flowers in their hands, accompanied by the family dog which holds a bird in its mouth.

Face: one, fearsome, bared fangs, three bloodshot eyes, orange flame sprouts from eyebrows and facial hair, yellow brown hair stands on end, from his nostrils issue rain clouds with violent lightening ; arms / hands: two, right hand holds flaming sword ( khadga, ral-gri ), left hand holds skull-cup ( kapala, thod-pa ) filled with the organs of the five senses, hearts, brains, and blood, in the crook of his left arm rests a mongoose ( ichneumon or nakula, nehu-li ) and golden goad / hook ( ankusha, lcags-kyu ); body: bejweled, elephant skin upper garment, loin cloth of tiger skin ; legs: two ; ornaments: five-skull crown, wristlets, anklets, necklace, garland of fifty freshly severed heads, tiger or elephant skin as a body covering and apron of carved human bones ; color: dark red ; vahana: carpet of human skins on one hundred thousand thunderbolts ( vajra, rdo-rje ) on the back of a garuda-like bird ( khyung ); companion: include Zhi-ba ' i-rgyal-chen, rGyas-pa ' i-rgyal-chen, dBang -' dus-rgyal-chen, Drag-po ' i-rgyal-chen.

The committee usually nominates its own replacement candidate, but also invites nominations from others, and if any are received, holds an election among county bird recorders and the bird observatory network.

Searchers documented more possible sightings and possible ivory-bill double knocks heard, but the definitive photograph, like the bird itself, remained elusive.

It has a 500 to 1000 year life-cycle, near the end of which it builds itself a nest of twigs that then ignites ; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix or phoenix egg arises, reborn anew to live again.

Avalerion is a bird claimed in mediaeval European texts to live near India, which drowns itself once it has laid its eggs.

It has thrown off its disguise as a meal and has revealed itself to me for what it is, a large dead bird.

As the bird gathers the nectar, the pollen, which has fins, attaches itself to the feather on the heads of the birds and is thus carried to other flowers, aiding cross pollination.

The bird has almost 20 alternative common names, most of which – including mopoke, morepork, ruru and boobook itself – are onomatopoeic, as they emulate the bird's distinctive two-pitched call.

These birds might have been a last remnant of the species, but some might argue that there had not been suitable prey for a population of Haast's Eagle to maintain itself for about five hundred years before that date, and 19th century Māori lore was adamant that the pouakai was a bird not seen in living memory.

In other words, each bird has to decide for itself which flocks to consider as its environment.

The origins of Osprey are obscure ; the word itself was first recorded around 1460, derived via the Anglo-French ospriet and the Medieval Latin avis prede " bird of prey ," from the Latin avis praedæ though the Oxford English Dictionary notes a connection with the Latin ossifraga or " bone breaker " of Pliny the Elder.

The nest itself is a simple scrape in the ground, in which the bird typically lays three or four eggs.

This technique is often used in conjunction with a method known as hydroplaning where the bird dips its bill beneath the surface and propels itself forward with wings and feet as if walking on the water.

Today the smaller family Sylviidae includes the typical warblers in the genus Sylvia, the parrotbills of Asia ( formerly a separate family Paradoxornithidae ), a number of babblers formerly placed within the family Timaliidae ( which is itself currently being split ) and the Wrentit, an unusual North American bird that has been a longstanding taxonomic mystery.

A mother bird deceives when it pretends to have a broken wing to divert the attention of a perceived predator — including unwitting humans — from the eggs in its nest to itself, most notably the killdeer.

The bird is a turul and the shield itself the Arpad stripes of ancient Hungary.

Although there is no statue of Arthur on Frogstar B, the bird people came about the same way ; there is no archeologist called Lintilla in the part of the books that concerns itself with Frogstar B ; however, the spaceport with the massively delayed spaceship is there.

It is a well camouflaged bird, it is usually shy and conceals itself close to ground vegetation and flushes only when approached closely.

The transformations here are some of the most remarkable ( and non-sensical ) of Cohl's career: as two men shake hands in profile, their heads expand into huge crossed bird beaks, filling the screen in a zoom until only their shared eye is seen, which itself expands into a bellows.

It includes the Resplendent Quetzal, the national bird of Guatemala that symbolizes liberty ; a parchment scroll bearing the date of Central America's independence from Spain, 15 September 1821 ; crossed rifles, indicating Guatemala's willingness to defend itself by force if need be ; a bay laurel crown, the symbol for victory ; and crossed swords, representing honor.

The Cooper's Hawk, as a natural predator of almost any North American bird smaller than itself, can inadvertently deplete populations of rarer, conservation-dependent species.

Hercules is then endowed with super-strength, and goes forth for several brief episodes to do battle with nemeses such as Daedalus, an evil wizard who is the chief villain ( sometimes accompanied by his pet cat Dydo ); as well as others such as Wilhemine the Sea Witch ( accompanied by her pet bird Elvira ); and Murtis ( aka The Mask of Vulcan ), who was invulnerable due to his wearing of an iron helmet, itself known as the Mask of Vulcan.

Francis of Assisi considered the Crested Lark a bird of special significance, based on similarities he perceived between it and the life of the Friars Minor: its plain earth-colored plumage and hood, its humility (" for it goes willingly along the wayside and finds a grain of corn for itself "), and its time spent in song.

After magically transforming itself into a bird with a magic wand, he is forced by his father to remain that way overnight as punishment, resulting in his escape from kidnapping when the Tails Brigade comes to the village.

The bird may also use tactics such as fiercely protecting a non-existent nest, or a distraction display of hopping on a single leg, to attract a potential predator's attention to itself and away from its real nest or its chicks after they have commenced foraging.

In addition, when necessary, the plane was able to temporarily transform into a massive bird of flame like the legendary Phoenix to escape danger or as a powerful attack, although the process itself endangered the team because of the extreme pressure felt in the passenger cabin.

Many bird genera contain the term spiza, but none of these were generally held to be a really close relative of Spiza itself.