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They nest in tree hollows or niches in walls or building. They are also known to have used artificial nesting areas provided by humans, like Nest boxes. They use hay, grass and twigs as building materials for their cup-shaped nests. Hay provides warmth which is essential for egg incubation. Twigs give it the structure and grass helps to deter predators.
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They may also be put in a basket filled with real or artificial straw to resemble a bird's nest.
They have been known to nest in small numbers as far south as the northern Channel Islands, off southern California.
They live in groups of up to eight adults, plus the current season's young, all sharing a nest and defending their territory, an example of helping at the nest.
They nest in holes dug into trees or termite nests, laying 2-4 white or pastel-coloured eggs.
They lay one or two eggs, and both parents care for the young, which leave the nest after 7 to 28 days.
They state that these were originally the seven days each year ( either side of the shortest day of the year ) during which Alcyone ( as a kingfisher ) laid her eggs and made her nest on the beach and during which her father Aeolus, god of the winds, restrained the winds and calmed the waves so she could do so in safety.
They were, he says, his nidus senectutis, the ' nest of his old age ', and there he spent the rest of his days, composing poetry and writing to many eminent contemporaries, several of whom had been his pupils.
They are also very aggressive to other penguins that steal stones from their nest.
They can leave the nest within a day or two, have body feathers within four or five weeks, are fully feathered after three months, and are able to fly about two weeks after that.
Norman revealed that " I recorded " This Land Is Your Land " and " They Laid Jesus Christ in His Grave " with a guitar I borrowed that was Woody Guthrie's ; found broken in a field with a bird nest inside.
They nest in deep burrows and use a highly developed sense of smell to find small insects and grubs in the soil.
They select a stick and modify it to fit down an opening in a termite nest, insert it, wiggle it around and withdraw it, eating the termites that have attacked the stick and stuck to it.
They nest in mangrove or other trees and feed on aquatic life.
They nest in trees, laying several eggs in a neat cup-shaped nest lined with grass.
They nest in bushes or similar.
They nest in bushes or similar.
They are usually silent but make hissing and roaring sounds at the nest or when jostling for food.
They do not nest in cohesive colonies as do many smaller vultures, with one tree or area usually only having 1 to 2 nests in it, though rarely up to 10 nests have been recorded in one area.
They nest mainly on rocky cliffs, sometimes adopting ledges on tall buildings in cities and on large trees.
They often nest in rock crevices or disused burrows.
They prefer to nest on the edge of woodland clearings.
They nest in natural tree holes, so dead trees or those with dead limbs are beneficial to the species ; nestboxes are sometimes used.
They also help defend the nest.
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They watched the tree until it twisted sharply on a bend.
They would be lolling under a tree sipping Ouzo, relishing the leisurely life, assuring him that the day was yet young.
They stay on the tree for a long time ; the male flowers have a strong odour.
They comprise one category of substance ( ousiae ) existing independently ( man, tree ) and nine categories of accidents, which can only exist in something else ( time, place ).
They spend the day in tree hollows or leaf nests.
They are in the sequence of the 1st Thirthankara to the 24th are: bull, elephant, horse, monkey, redgoose, lotus flower, swastika, crescent of moon, crocodile, shade providing tree, rhinoceros, buffalo, pig, porcupine, vajra ( a kind of weapon ), deer, goat, fish, jar, tortoise, lilly flower, conch, snake and lion.
They have encouraged the establishment of tree crops such as mangos and avocados.
They can't figure it out on their own, and never learn — a few hours later, Pipo is found vivisected in the grass ; his corpse does not even have the benefit of a tree ( The symbol of honor placed among all dead piggies ).
They do not extend north of the Arctic tree line, with the northernmost species, Salamandrella keyserlingii occurring in the Siberian larch forests of Sakha and of the most northerly species in North America, Ambystoma laterale reaching no further than Labrador and Taricha granulosa not beyond the Alaska Panhandle.
They were said to have emerged from the acacia tree of Iusaaset, which the Egyptians considered the tree of life, referring to it as the " tree in which life and death are enclosed.
They leave the tram at the terminus and the executioners tie Weluhn to a tree in von Vittlar's mother's garden and prepare to machine-gun him.
They require only constant time because they are local transformations: they only operate on 5 nodes, and need not examine the rest of the tree.
They are skillful climbers and powerful jumpers, able to make leaps of up to 10 m from one tree to the next.
They also cultivated the cabbage tree, a plant endemic to New Zealand, and exploited wild foods such as fern root, which provided a starchy paste.
They may be molluscs ; authors who suggest that they deserve their own phylum do not comment on the position of this phylum in the tree of life.
They are found particularly in the rainforests of the tropics and temperate zones, where they live among moss cushions and leaf litter, under tree trunks and stones, in rotting wood or in termite tunnels.
They bring the animal to bay with the help of a maiden who traps it with her charms, appear to kill it, and bring it back to a castle ; in the last and most famous panel, " The Unicorn in Captivity ," the unicorn is shown alive again and happy, chained to a pomegranate tree surrounded by a fence, in a field of flowers.
They are still fully intact today ; each of the four principal sides is lined with a different tree species.
They typically reside within a directory tree that is not maintained by the systems-level package manager ( like c:
They settled in Galibi ( Kupali Yumï, meaning " tree of the forefathers ") on the mouth of the Marowijne river.
They are similar to the tree squirrel in their preference of fruits and nuts.
They then fly to another tree of the same species where they deposit their eggs and allow the cycle to begin again.
They form the newest branch on the echinoid tree.
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