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2. Mews (falconry) - Wikipedia

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   In falconry, a mews is a birdhouse designed to house one or more birds of prey. [1] [2] In falconry there are two types of mews: the freeloft mews and traditional mews. Traditional mews usually consist of partitioned spaces designed to keep tethered birds separated with perches for each bird in the partitioned space.

3. Pigeon keeping - Wikipedia

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   Again, pigeon fanciers often provide their birds (both mated and unmated pigeons) with more perches than the birds need. Because pigeons are also quite territorial about their perch [16] it is best to ensure that every pigeon in the loft has many places to perch. Pigeon fanciers often have their pigeon lofts in suitably modified garden sheds.

4. Harris's hawk - Wikipedia

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   Important perches and nest supports are provided by scattered larger trees or other features (e.g., power poles, woodland edges, standing dead trees, live trees, boulders, and saguaros). [22] The wild Harris's hawk population is declining due to habitat loss; however, under some circumstances, they have been known to move into developed areas. [23]

5. List of largest birds - Wikipedia

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   A large pelican can attain a wingspan of 3.6 m (12 ft), second only to the great albatrosses among all living birds. [ 119 ] The largest of the cormorants is the flightless cormorant of the Galapagos Islands ( Nannopterum harrisi ), at up to 5 kg (11 lb) and 1 m (3.3 ft), although large races in the great cormorant ( Phalacrocorax carbo ) can ...

6. Southern fiscal - Wikipedia

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   The southern fiscal is usually solitary and hunts insects and small rodents from an exposed perch or the tops of shrubs. Territorial size is directly related to the density of hunting perches. Installing more artificial perches causes the fiscal to reduce its territory size and allow more birds in the affected range.

7. Adoration of the Magi (Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi)

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   At the top of the hill a large but indistinctly painted group form a crowd, perhaps funnelling down the narrow path. Detail around the arch. On the top of the stable a large peacock perches, looking over his shoulder. There are two other birds to his right, which have been identified as a goshawk seizing a pheasant. [11]