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 ".

Nice wrote to Joseph Grinnell in 1932, trying to get foreign literature reviewed in the Condor: " Too many American ornithologists have despised the study of the living bird ; the magazines and books that deal with the subject abound in careless statements, anthropomorphic interpretations, repetition of ancient errors, and sweeping conclusions from a pitiful array of facts.

A small insectivorous bird, it is subject to predation by mammals, such as cats and mustelids, and birds, particularly hawks of the genus Accipiter.

These birds were the subject of one of the first ever bird protection laws, established by Saint Cuthbert in the year 676.

This tiny woodland bird has had little other impact on literature, although it is the subject of Charles Tennyson Turner's short poem, " The Gold-crested Wren ", first published in 1868.

The subject, by referring to this maxim, is compared to the bird ; tomorrow, the speaker will awaken early in order to achieve success.

The lithographs were hand coloured, and writing the introduction for the work Gould states ‘ every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand ; and when it is considered that nearly two hundred and eighty thousand illustrations in the present work have been so treated, it will most likely cause some astonishment to those who give the subject a thought .’

The work has gathered critical acclaim: according to Mullens and Swann, ‘ Birds of Great Britain ’ is ‘ the most sumptuous and costly of British bird books ’, whilst Wood describes it as ‘ a magnificent work .’ Isabella Tree, writes that it ‘ was seen-perhaps partly because its subject was British, as the culmination of ... genius ’.

In a typical experiment, a bird or other animal confronts a computer monitor on which a large number of pictures appear one by one, and the subject gets a reward for pecking or touching a picture of a category item and no reward for non-category items.

Research wise he focused on naming authorities for bird names, and was considered the foremost expert on the subject.

In telephoto photography, most commonly in bird photography, an image is cropped to magnify the primary subject and further reduce the angle of view when a lens of sufficient focal length to achieve the desired magnification directly is not available.

Emily Dickinson penned many poems about the bird

It contained 112 poems, two of which were previously known to have been written by Posidippus, which address subjects that include events of the court of the Ptolemaic dynasty, gemstones, and bird divination.

Engraved on his headstone were two lines from one of his own poems ( originally dedicated to Andrew Young ): " So clear you see those timeless things, That, like a bird, the vision sings ".

Twenty five pages of bird poems followed, and the rest was given over to articles about birds and Gould League matters.

Most species seem to prefer a ready-made hollow such as a deserted mouse nest, a bird house, or the hole made by a woodpecker ; ;

Suddenly, one of the birds fell down, hit by an arrow ; it was the male bird.

When a man distinguished himself by deeds of valour, or any form of meritorious conduct, he was often decorated by a chief by being presented with the feathers of this bird.

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.

* Earth diver creation in which a diver, usually a bird or amphibian sent by a creator, plunges to the seabed through a primordial ocean to bring up sand or mud which develops into a terrestrial world

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.

* The Vulture is a patient bird by James Hadley Chase refers to a ring that belonged to Borgia

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 following years, the bird was preyed upon by hungry sailors, their domesticated animals, and invasive species introduced during that time.

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.

Eggshell thinning lowers the reproductive rate of certain bird species by causing egg breakage and embryo deaths.

James Gregory ( 1638 – 1675 ) observed the diffraction patterns caused by a bird feather, which was effectively the first diffraction grating to be discovered.

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.

Depiction of bearded Emperor Jimmu with his emblematic long bow and an accompanying wild bird — artwork by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi ( 1839 – 1892 ).

This film includes a scene, preceded by the title " The thorns of jealousy ", in which a rejected woman overhears the man she loves with another woman, and this is followed by a fade to a shot of a pair of doves, which then dissolves into a shot of a bird of prey.

Fair Isle has a permanent bird observatory, founded by George Waterston in 1948.

Fair Isle was bought by the National Trust for Scotland in 1954 from George Waterston, the founder of the bird observatory.

Some eye protection products are rated to withstand impact from birdshot loads, which offers protection against irresponsible firearms use by other game bird shooters.

: Extirpation of native bird population by the rapid proliferation of the Brown tree snake ( Boiga irregularis ), an exotic species.

A record of a bird in 1852 is considered by some to be the last sighting of the species.

Prior to that, hunting by local natives can be documented from Late Stone Age Scandinavia and eastern North America, as well as from early 5th century Labrador, where the bird seems to have occurred only as a straggler.