More on the Kashruth of collecting Birds to eat is in the Jewish Targum ( Deuteronomy Rabbah 6. 3 ) " If you fulfill the law of kindness to mother birds ( by waiting, or sending away the mother bird ), you will also fulfill the law of freeing Hebrew slaves, therefor lengthen your days.

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.

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

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.

As of February, 2010, the Cornell researchers concluded there was no hope of saving the bird, if it still exists:

Along on the trip was a 15-year-old Bermudian boy named David B. Wingate, who devoted his life to saving the bird and in 1966 became Bermuda's first conservation officer.

A bird named Margalo is adopted by the Little family, and Stuart protects her from their malevolent cat.

The classic ' Zig-zag ' logo appeared in 1977 designed by Stuart Kettle-this initially featured a mechanical bird flying above it, but later, Chris Wroe ( who drew all of the classic caricatures of the Tiswas team ) replaced this with a drawing of the Phantom Flan Flinger.

In 2002, she voiced the character of Margalo the bird in Stuart Little 2.

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

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

Primitive respirator examples were used by miners and introduced by Alexander von Humboldt already in 1799, when he worked as a mining engineer in Prussia ; long before that there was a Plague doctor's bird beak shaped mask / face piece filled with herbs.

The gecko's mating call sounds like a shortened bird chirping which attracts males, when they are nearby.

There was a time when certain authorities considered the signs enough, so Jews started eating this bird without a masorah because it possesses all the signs ( simanim in Hebrew ) and there is a place for this in Jewish law.

Penguin eggs are smaller than any other bird species when compared proportionally to the weight of the parent birds ; at, the Little Penguin egg is 4. 7 % of its mothers ' weight, and the Emperor Penguin egg is 2. 3 %.

The young bird was naked and blind when born, but grew and developed rapidly.

The last fully authenticated record of a wild bird was near Sargents, Pike County, Ohio, on March 22, 1900, when the bird was killed by a boy with a BB gun.

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.

Reginald of Durham recounts another miracle, saying that his right arm was taken by a bird ( perhaps a raven ) to an ash tree, which gave the tree ageless vigor ; when the bird dropped the arm onto the ground, a spring emerged from the ground.

Their albumen is white and contains a different protein from bird eggs, such that it will not coagulate when cooked.

Sigismund gave a ring to the boy's mother when he was born, but one day in the forest a raven stole it from her, and the ring was only recovered after the bird was hunted down.

Sima Qian's " Annals of the Yin " begins by describing the predynastic founder of the Shang lineage, Xie ( 偰 ) — also appearing as Qi ( 契 ) — as having been miraculously conceived when Jiandi, a wife of Emperor Ku, swallowed an egg dropped by a black bird.

Also, there is no evidence that a bird refrains from giving calls when another bird is not reciprocating.

For example, when a character takes photographs with an instant camera, inside of the camera box, a bird carves the picture on a stone tablet with its beak.

In the case of the Flintstones ' cuckoo clocks, which varied from mechanical toys to live birds announcing the time, when the hour approached 12: 00, the bird inside the clock " cuckooing " usually just ran out of steam and gave up vocally, physically, or both.

This depiction is consistent with the remains of these birds found at other Israelite Iron Age sites, when the rooster was used as a fighting bird ; they are also pictured on other seals from the period as a symbol of ferocity, such as on the one engraved on a late-seventh-century BC red jasper seal inscribed " Jehoahaz, son of the king ", which likely it belonged to Jehoahaz of Judah " while he was still a prince during his father's life.

In the fifteenth century, when it became popular to give human names to familiar species, the bird came to be known as Robin redbreast, which was eventually shortened to Robin.

The best time to see the multitude of the park's bird migrants is during either early spring or fall and winter when thousands spend the winter there or migrate through.

* Chirping – This less-common sound, likened to bird song, seems to be related to stress, or when a baby guinea pig wants to be fed.

This behaviour is innate, as demonstrated by a juvenile bird in captivity, which performed the task when first presented with wild bees.