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Their foraging behaviour is reminiscent of the true tits ( Paridae ), foraging upside-down on small branches, manoeuvring branches and leaves with their feet in order to insect them, and clasping large prey items with one foot while dismembering them.
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Their and foraging
Their evidence includes 14 sightings of the birds and 300 recordings of sounds that can be attributed to the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, but also includes tell-tale foraging signs and appropriately sized tree nest cavities ( Hill et al., 2006 ).
Their duties change upon the age of the bee in the following order ( beginning with cleaning out their own cell after eating through their capped brood cell ): feed brood ; receive nectar ; clean hive ; guard duty ; and foraging.
Their wings may be rounded or pointed, with wing shape closely correlated with foraging habitat and migratory tendencies.
Their primary occupation is the cultivation of cereals, augmented by hunting and foraging.
Their typical foraging technique is to perch on a branch and occasionally fly out in the manner of a flycatcher in order to snatch a passing insect.
Their foraging techniques has been described as hopping rapidly along the length of a horizontal branch, pausing briefly to peer for prey, occasionally hanging underneath the branch but usually on top of it.
Their most common mode of foraging is to vigorously flip leaves and rip at submerged aquatic vegetation.
Their foraging, termed ' hop-searching ', occurs on the ground or in shrubs that are less than two metres high.
Their average swimming speed decreases when the tide rises at night, possibly because the influx of cooler water reduces their metabolism, or the accompanying movement of prey fishes makes foraging easier.
Their diet consists largely of insects, insect larvae, spiders and other invertebrates and the occasional small vertebrate discovered while energetically foraging, their sensitive noses to the ground, in forest leaf litter.
Their very active foraging behavior appears to be interrelated with their distinctive social organization.
Their foraging techniques vary from an active to a passive mode and they forage on non aquatic invertebrates and also odonate larvae.
Their large size and foraging habits make the species an excellent choice for this role.
Their foraging will occasionally take them up utility poles where they can cause short-circuits of utility switches, causing costly power outages.
Their wings have a low aspect ratio and low wing loading, suggesting high manoeuvrability and moderate flight speed, suitable both for long travel and foraging close to the ground.
Their bats are adapted to various foraging methods and foods ; including nectar, fish, insects and parasitized blood, as the case with the infamous vampire bats.
Their and behaviour
Their beginning for studying the behaviour of a new species was to construct an ethogram ( a description of the main types of natural behaviour with their frequencies of occurrence ).
Their use of the word " gay " represented a new unapologetic defiance — as an antonym for " straight " (' respectable sexual behaviour '), it encompassed a range of non-normative sexualities and gender expressions, such as transgender street prostitutes, and sought ultimately to free the bisexual potential in everyone, rendering obsolete the categories of homosexual and heterosexual.
Their group behaviour in hunting is exceptional in the reptile world.
Their omnivorous diet, aggressive behaviour, and their feeding method of rooting in the ground all combine to severely alter ecosystems unused to pigs.
Their partly nocturnal and far-ranging behaviour, their low densities, and the fact they inhabit densely vegetated habitats and remote areas makes the censusing and monitoring of clouded leopards extremely difficult.
Their arrogant behaviour and reported bad treatment of Bacan women led to their murder.
Their behaviour has been studied intensely at Slimbridge.
Their behaviour is so different from the other s-block elements that there is considerable disagreement over where these two elements should be placed in the periodic table.
Their behaviour there was so bad that in the end they were given dishonourable discharges from the service ; for the last few weeks of their imprisonment, when their fate was a certainty anyway, they tried to dominate the exercise area immediately outside their one man cells.
Their behaviour is said to resemble that of tits ( to which they are certainly not closely related ) more than the treecreepers.
Their common name describes the behaviour of these birds when searching for food on the ground: they use their long bills to " thrash " through dirt or dead leaves.
Their controversial name ( translated as Fuckoffpolicecar ), statements and behaviour drew much public attention, making them a symbol of the Afrikaans Rock revival movement.
Their notable differences from other Christian groups lie in a number of doctrinal beliefs that affect the practice of their gatherings and behaviour.
Their application of game theory to the evolution of animal strategies launched an entirely new way of analysing animal behaviour.
Their appearance is natural and rustic, their behaviour self-assured, steady and fearless.
Their non-parasitic behaviour after eclosion from the pupa is what justifies the application of the term " protelean ".
Their rule was not popular, and soon discontent arose, mainly because of the strange sexual behaviour and the eastern religious practices of Elagabalus.
Their parasitic nesting behaviour complemented this nomadic lifestyle.
Their camouflage is so excellent that they will close approach before taking to flight, a behaviour which has resulted in folk names and beliefs that the birds are short-sighted or blind.
Their calls are mimicked by drongos and this behaviour is thought to aid in stealing food by alarming other birds that the drongos associate with.
Their presence can be overlooked due to their nocturnal behaviour and camouflage.
Their drinking behaviour involves bending down with open bill and scooping up water with a forward motion followed by raising the bill to swallow water.
Their characters abuse drugs, engage in violent behaviour or could be considered sexual deviants.
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Their own easier, slower tempo is especially dear to Southerners ; ;
Their gait is impossible to convey in words.
Their rebellion against authoritarian society is not far removed from the violence of revolt characteristic of the juvenile delinquent.
Their artistic rationale is given to the witness of unreason.
It is different with his volume The Swedes And Their Chieftains ( Svenskarna och deras Hovdingar ), a history intended for the general reader and particularly suited for high school students.
Their great error is to mingle the responses typical of each of the three types of change.
Their meeting at San Francisco is nominally scheduled as a conference of the California Democratic Council directorate.
Their burgeoning popularity may be a result of the closing of the 52nd Street burlesque joints, but curiously enough their atmosphere is almost always familial -- neighborhood saloons with a bit of epidermis.
Their main asset is an abundance of unsaturated fatty acids, so necessary for maintaining the good health of the circulatory system.
Their cost is not beyond the hopes of the American pocketbook, the range being about $150 to $1,000, depending on size.
If you really insist on knowing their names, an excellent book on the North American species is Bumblebees And Their Ways by O. E. Plath.
Their sum is X, the total number of successes, which in this experiment has the value Af.
Their experience is quite in contrast with that of children of upper- and upper-middle-class native-born parents, who are more likely to regard education as good for its own sake and to discount the vocational emphases in the curriculum.
Their amplitude sometimes is as little as two feet from trough to crest.
Their characteristic experience is that of the individual at an altar or a shrine rather than that of a continuing social group with a distinctive kind of fellowship.
Their presence is not as frightening as the discontent which creates their opportunity.
Their view is that last-minute changes the Mayor is proposing to make in the Democratic ticket only emphasize the weakness of his performance as Mayor.
Their secondary hero is another pro, Willie Chisholm, who drank his lunch during another Open and tried to blast his way out of a rock-strewn gully.
Their heights, that is.
Their father is Charles B. Armour.
Their mother is Mrs. Camilla Alsop Wendell.
Their names are Mantle and Maris, their team is the Yankees, and their threat is real.
Their Eisenhower is insubstantial.
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