but when the bird is found at last, it turns out to be a fake.

Now the Stone Harbor bird sanctuary, 31 acres of magic attraction for exotic herons, is threatened, but the battlefront extends far beyond our state.

Stravinsky, nearing the age of eighty, is like a lost and frantic bird, flitting from one abandoned nest to another, searching for a home.

and the eagle, who leads the bird community when he is not too busy in Washington posing for fifty-cent pieces.

Alabama is unofficially nicknamed the Yellowhammer State, after the state bird.

In rural tidewater Virginia and eastern New England, ' r ' is non-rhotic in accented ( such as " bird ", " work ", " first ", " birthday ") as well as unaccented syllables, although this is declining among the younger generation of speakers.

Plancius called the constellation " Paradysvogel Apis Indica "; the first word is Dutch for ' bird of paradise ', but the others are Latin for " Indian Bee "; " apis " ( Latin for " bee ") is presumably an error for " avis " or " bird ".

It is a significant bird egg predator, excepting those of the largest tundra bird species.

Every tree that is scorched and each bird nest that is devoured is a sign of the abiotic stress.

The Common Buzzard ( Buteo buteo ) is a medium to large bird of prey, whose range covers most of Europe and extends into Asia.

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 ).

head ) is a bird of prey found in North America.

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

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

The Blue Crane is a tall, ground-dwelling bird, but is fairly small by the standards of the crane family.

The Blue Crane is a bird very special to the amaXhosa, who call it indwe.

During the breeding season, the male call of this marsh-dwelling bird is a " low pitched boom "; hence, it is occasionally called the " bunyip bird ".

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.

The district was originally called Sacopenapã ( translated from the tupi language, it means " the way of the socós ( a kind of bird )") until the mid-18th century.

As he was falling, Athena, who favors ingenuity, saw him falling and arrested his fate by changing him into a bird called after his name, perdix, the partridge.

In the 18th century, the Passenger Pigeon in Europe was known to the French as tourtre ; but, in New France, the North American bird was called tourte.

For each bird in the population of crows there is a weight, and the set of these weights is called the population of weights.

For each bird in the population of crows there is a weight, and the set of these weights is called the population of weights.

A shuttlecock ( called bird or birdie in the USA ) is a high-drag projectile used in the sport of badminton.

The bird had discovered a land in the east, exceedingly rich in gold, silver, and plants, whose capital was called Kitor and whose ruler was the Queen of Sheba, and the bird, on its own advice, was sent by Solomon to request the queen's immediate attendance at Solomon's court.

The Tufted Puffin is a familiar bird on the coasts of the Russian Pacific coast, where it is known as Toporik ( Топорик ) – roughly meaning " axe-bill " –, while the other puffins are collectively called túpiki ( ту ́ пики ) in Russian.

In English-speaking parts of Europe, the bird called a " robin " is Erithacus rubecula.

Many types exist, small mouth blown whistles for various functions from toys to hunting using bird and fowl calls type whistles, to professional whistles as police, boatswain's pipe, military, sports whistles ( also called pea whistles ), to much larger steam or air preasure operated ones as train whistles, which are steam whistles specifically designed for use on locomotives and ships.

The lyrebird is so called because the male bird has a spectacular tail consisting of 16 highly modified feathers ( two long slender lyrates at the centre of the plume, two broader medians on the outside edges and twelve filamentaries arrayed between them ), which was originally thought to resemble a lyre.

There is a certain bird which is called a phoenix.

Originally, the phoenix was identified by the Egyptians as a stork or heron-like bird called a benu, known from the Book of the Dead and other Egyptian texts as one of the sacred symbols of worship at Heliopolis, closely associated with the rising sun and the Egyptian sun-god Ra.

In China, the phoenix is called the businiao ( 不死鳥 ; literally " immortal bird "), whereas the fenghuang ( 鳳凰 ) is a mythical bird of local Chinese origin, similar to the phoenix.

In Japan, the phoenix is called, literally " immortal bird ", and the local parallel is called hō-ō ( kanji: 鳳凰 ).

In Korea, the phoenix is called bulsajo ( Hanja: 不死鳥 Hangul: 불사조 ) literally meaning " immortal bird ", and the East Asian variant is called bonghwangsae ( Hangul: 봉황새 Hanja: 鳳凰새 ).