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A Bird in the House, first published in 1970, is a short story sequence written by Margaret Laurence. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Noted by Laurence to be "semi-autobiographical", [ 3 ] the series chronicles the growing up of a young agnostic writer, Vanessa MacLeod, in the fictional town of Manawaka , Manitoba . [ 4 ]
Bird trapping techniques to capture wild birds include a wide range of techniques that have their origins in the hunting of birds for food. While hunting for food does not require birds to be caught alive, some trapping techniques capture birds without harming them and are of use in ornithology research.
A snipe hunt is a type of practical joke or fool's errand, in existence in North America as early as the 1840s, in which an unsuspecting newcomer is duped into trying to catch an elusive, nonexistent animal called a snipe. Although snipe are an actual family of birds, a snipe hunt is a quest for a creature whose description varies.
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
Australasian figbird, catching a beetle on the wing. Hawking is a feeding strategy in birds involving catching flying insects in the air. The term usually refers to a technique of sallying out from a perch to snatch an insect and then returning to the same or a different perch, though it also applies to birds that spend almost their entire lives on the wing.
H5N1, the bird flu virus behind the ongoing outbreak in the US, has really only demonstrated an affinity for the types of sialic acid receptors that are most plentiful in the respiratory tracts of ...
Bal-chatri (/bɑːl tʃʌθri/) are traps designed to catch birds of prey (raptors). The trap essentially consists of a cage baited inside with a conspicuously visible live rodent or small bird, with a series of monofilament nooses attached to the surface to snare the legs of a free-flying raptor that attempts to take the bait. [2]
The brother is petrified when he tries to catch the bird, and his sister saves him and other petrified people. At the end of the tale, the once petrified people are invited to the twins' house, where they show their baby blankets with the count's family crest emblazoned on them and the white parrot helps them discover the truth of their parentage.