It was Giselle, the fille de chambre, come to clean the room, and while she stood before him with ears pricked up and regard all curiosity, explaining her errand, Alex could see from the corner of his eye the doctor doing all he could to calm the displeased bird.

The handsome bird was solitary ; ;

Similarly, the ancient English word for bird was " brid ".

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

This machine was an ornithopter, with flapping wings similar to those of a bird, first presented in his Codex on the Flight of Birds in 1505.

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.

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.

* Wang the Perverted from the film Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders ( or as he's known for most of the film, " Evil Presence ") was brought back from the dead with many cybernetic body parts including a hand that spontaneously flips the bird due to a malfunction

It was in use for 800 years or more and numerous bird bones were found here, predominantly White-tailed Sea Eagle.

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.

The Dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.

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

Victor Yannacone, Charles Wurster, Art Cooley and others associated with inception of EDF had all witnessed bird kills or declines in bird populations and suspected that DDT was the cause.

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

He returned to Germany in 1930 and in 1931 he accepted a curatorial position at the American Museum of Natural History, where he played the important role of brokering and acquiring the Walter Rothschild collection of bird skins, which was being sold in order to pay off a blackmailer.

He noted that the German society was " far more scientific, far more interested in life histories and breeding bird species, as well as in reports on recent literature.

Mayr was co-author of six global reviews of bird species new to science ( listed below ).

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

The Great Auk ( Pinguinus impennis ) was a large, flightless bird of the alcid family that became extinct in the mid-19th century.

It was an important part of many Native American cultures which coexisted with the bird, both as a food source and as a symbolic item.

By the mid-16th century, the nesting colonies along the European side of the Atlantic were nearly all eliminated by humans killing this bird for its down, which was used to make pillows.

A specimen was bought in 1971 by the Icelandic Museum of National History for the sum of £ 9000, which placed it in the Guinness Book of Records as the most expensive stuffed bird ever sold.

* A cigarette company, the British Great Auk Cigarettes, was named after this bird.

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.

When European explorers discovered what are today known as penguins in the Southern Hemisphere, they noticed their similar appearance to the Great Auk and named them after this bird, although they are not related.

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 principles of diffraction gratings were discovered by James Gregory, about a year after Newton's prism experiments, initially with artifacts such as bird feathers.

Nemesis in her bird form lays an egg that is discovered in the marshes by a shepherd, who passes the egg to Leda.

Although modern critics of Carson have argued that the bird deaths were caused by other factors such as mercury poisoning in the soil, spraying against elm bark beetles declined very rapidly after 1962, a trend aided by fungicides without dangerous side-effects being discovered for the first time after many years of research.

A dedicated stridulation apparatus has also been discovered in males of one ( as of April, 2007 ) bird species, the Club-winged Manakin.

James Gregory discovered the diffraction grating by passing sunlight through a bird feather and observing the diffraction pattern produced.

Bird watching: with the more than 570 species of catalogued birds and new species being discovered every year, the region of Alta Floresta, Cristalino and Azul River Basin receives constant visits from famous ornithologists and bird watchers.

This group is among those Old World bird families with the highest number of species still being discovered.

In 1815, he discovered the bird Bonelli's Warbler ( Phylloscopus bonelli ), named by Louis Vieillot in 1819.

It is perhaps the same bird discovered by Portuguese sailors there in 1613.

The Araripe Manakin ( Antilophia bokermanni ) is a very rare bird that was discovered only in the late 20th century ; it is not known from anywhere outside the characteristic forest that grows on the Chapada do Araripe soils formed ultimately from Crato and Santana Formation rocks.

The Le Conte ’ s Sparrow was discovered by John James Audubon, and it was thought that he named this bird after a friend, Doctor Le Conte.

Argentavis magnificens ( literally " magnificent Argentine bird ") is the largest flying bird ever discovered.

The remains of 84 bird specimens of 18 different species, including motmots, doves, trogons, cuckoos, wrens and orioles, were discovered at one spectral bat roost.

Sri Lanka's most recently discovered bird, the Serendib Scops Owl was originally heard calling by Deepal Warakagoda in these forests.

In 2006, a 16-year-old banded bird was discovered, making it the oldest wild individual.

He also discovered 39 species of mammals and 124 species of birds which had not been described previously, 79 of the bird species were described himself.

Between 1817 and 1818, he described a number of Javanese bird species discovered by Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour ; he also contributed articles on ornithology to the Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles, edited and published from 1816 – 1830 by F. G. Levrault.

" From boyhood on had been in tune with nature ; he took photographs, made drawings and provided armchair tourists with keen descriptions of rain forests and snowy mountains ... and discovered new ( previously unrecorded ) species of bats, birds, and mallophaga ( bird lice ).

The bird was discovered by the surgeon-naturalist Thomas C. Jerdon in 1848 but not seen again until its rediscovery in 1986.