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Bird ringing is the term used in the UK and in some other parts of Europe, while the term bird banding is more often used in the U.S. and Australia. [49] bird strike The impact of a bird or birds with an airplane in flight. [50] body down The layer of small, fluffy down feathers that lie underneath the outer contour feathers on a bird's body. [51]
Ratatösk is the squirrel named, who has run in Yggdrasil's ash; he from above the eagle's words must carry, and beneath the Nidhögg repeat. [6] Henry Adams Bellows translation: Ratatosk is the squirrel who there shall run On the ash-tree Yggdrasil; From above the words of the eagle he bears, And tells them to Nithhogg beneath. [7]
Twitchers watching a mega—Britain's fifth-ever white-tailed lapwing—and probably adding a lifer to their list; see text for explanation of italicised terms. Twitchers' vocabulary is the set of jargon words used by twitchers (committed birdwatchers who travel long distances to see a new species to add a species to their "life list", year list or other list).
Lund noted that the common plural nouns for animals were "flock" for birds and "herd" for cows, conceding that for certain animals in small groups, there was currency in usage such as a "pod" of whales or "gaggle" of geese. [120]
If, by chance, the bird is looking away from you, then Doolittle believes that the red Cardinal has messages for you, but "you may be missing [them] by being too busy or too distracted from your ...
Squirrel: squeak Swan: cry, trumpet, bugle Trumpeter swan: Tapir: squeak [49] Tokay gecko: croak [50] ... List of animal sounds to download, listen and use for free.
Bird species living in a flock may capture prey, likely injured, from an unsuccessful bird within its flock. [2] This behavior is known as the beater effect and is one of the benefits of birds foraging in a flock with other birds. [2] It can be seen that birds in a flock may perform the information-sharing model. [2]
Birds "of a feather" (in this case red-winged blackbirds) exhibiting flocking behavior, source of the idiom. Birds of a feather flock together is an English proverb. The meaning is that beings (typically humans) of similar type, interest, personality, character, or other distinctive attribute tend to mutually associate.