Even the noble Peregrine does not disdain this humble, albeit toothsome, quarry, and the Least Falcon (Falco sparverius phalaena) will stoop for a young Meadowlark when all other avian offerings are virtuously passed by.
The conflict of interests, avian and human, was sometimes disastrous to the birds.
Ergo, he sits silent in the thickets while avian poet-asters shrill the notes of common day.
Altho at times one of the most approachable of birds, he is, on the whole, an avian freak, a rebus in feathers.
We labor under a sense of aviansurveillance as we gather fuel from the beach, but the songs are too joyous and limpid to make precise connections with anything in previous experience.
With volitatorial powers which are unequaled by any other land bird, this avian missile goes hurtling across the sky without injury, or else minces along slowly with pretended difficulty.
For the rest, why should they hunt up avian companions, whose tastes are not educated to an appreciation of exposed, water-soaked stubs, and a commanding view of river scenery?
Rabbits are more sensitive to the avian infection.
The monkey, so delicate in our climate, and which almost invariably perishes from tuberculosis, is uninjured by inoculation from avian virus.
Koch's lymph, Bacillinum and Avian tuberculin must be studied separately, clinically as well as experimentally.
I gave her Avian tuberculin and in three weeks all the symptoms had disappeared.
Animals inoculated with progressive doses of Avian tuberculin, or with serum of tuberculous animals, undergo wasting and loss of appetite, and other general symptoms.
That the avian tuberculosis cured the consumption?
The parrot is a remarkable exception to the general rule; it is the only bird which resists avian tuberculosis, while, on the other hand, it is sensitive to that of man.
In view of the almost universal character of this law it would be strange if these peculiar forms of dependence did not appear in the avian community.
Instead of inflicting its eggs on its more distant avian relatives it watches its chance and slyly drops them into the domicile of its bay-winged cousins, and actually makes them hatch and rear its offspring!
These avian "spongers" have a wide geographical range, inhabiting the greater part of the United States and southern Canada, except the extensive forest regions and some portions of the Southern States.
He evidently subserves some useful purpose in the avian community, or he would not be treated with so much consideration.
In America the cowbird, often called the cow bunting, is the only member of the avian household that spirits its eggs into the nests of other birds.
The arguments against it are that not a single instance of avian hibernation will stand the light of reason and investigation, and that birds are provided with the means of escaping from the cold zone and certainly use these means.
The pioneer would arrive, like the slower movers, in a land already peopled with an avian population, but it would not have its own fellows to add to the stress of competition; it would be ahead of the greatest struggle.
Those who have studied the home life of the black-throated green warbler have noted its intolerance of some avian intruders in the vicinity of its nest, and its tolerance of others.
Recently I tarried for a little time in such a grove consisting of half a dozen mango trees, a tamarind and a pipal, and witnessed there a veritable avian pageant--a pageant accompanied by music.
All the colours of the rainbow appear in our avian population.
Fortunately for the long-suffering ryot, the latter outnumber the former; the majority of the avian habitues of the millet field come for the sake of the insects which are so abundant in this particular crop.
Lastly there is theAvian genus Halteridium, the trophozoites of which are characteristically bean-shaped or reniform.
Lastly, whatever be the correct solution of the above problem, there is certainly not sufficient justification for including the Avian genus Haemoproteus, as also only a species of Plasmodium, which is done by some.
In 2006, the economy should benefit from an influx of investment and a revived tourism sector; however, a possible avian flu epidemic could significantly harm economic prospects throughout the region.
If theavian flu worsens and spreads in the region, however, prospects for tourism could dim.
The disease was first studied in 1895 by Johne and Frothingham in Dresden, but they were inclined to attribute to the avian tubercle bacillus the cause of the peculiar lesions of enteritis which they observed.
A similar conclusion was reached by other investigators in working with the avian and porcine types of tubercle bacilli several years ago, and was reasonably to have been expected with the human and bovine types.
As to the distribution of these avian highways, we know at least that the coastlines of the continents are favourite routes.
From early times the plumes of these avian giants have been in demand for head decorations, and for centuries the people of Asia and Africa killed the birds for this purpose.
Even the birds seem to regard it as an outcast from avian society, and rarely associate with it on friendly terms.
The Bell Vireo sings more often daily and throughout the nesting season than do the majority of its avian nesting associates.
It is among the woven nests that we find the highest examples ofavian architecture.
That this great change occurred, and was attended with an obliteration of the wonderful reptilian and avian fauna of the mesozoic age, is most true: that it occurred suddenly does not appear.
The wonderful reptilian and avian fauna of the mesozoic age is now familiar to all.
While our feathered friends were not so abundant in the wilder regions as we might have wished, still we had almost constant avian companionship along the way.
It has seldom been my fortune to listen to a finer pot-pourri of avian music.
Aiken, of Colorado Springs, who has been of not a little service in determining and classifying the avian fauna of Colorado.
Some of the dry, steep sides of the first range of mountains were hard climbing, but it was necessary to make the effort in order to discover their avian resources.
That surely is a virtue to be commended, and cannot be claimed for every family, either avian or human.
For one thing I learned, somewhat to my surprise, that the avian fauna on both sides of the Divide is much the same.
Too long and closely had I studied the veery's minstrelsy in his summer haunts in northern Minnesota to be deceived now--unless, indeed, this fertile avian region produced another thrush which whistled precisely the same tune.
Illustration] The presence of practically the same avian fauna on both sides of the great range suggests some speculations as to their movements in the migrating season.
A walk before breakfast the next morning added several more avian species to my roll.
Most interesting of all to the rambler on avian lore intent is the fact that there are many species and genera that are peculiar to the West, and therefore new to him, keeping him constantly on the qui vive.
The bird is a common crow or a raven, and is one of the most happily executed of the avian sculptures, the nasal feathers, which are plainly shown, and the general contour of the bill being truly corvine.
This carving differs markedly from any of the avian sculptures, and probably was not intended to represent a bird at all.
Avian Habitats in Kansas Four major habitat-types can be seen in looking at the distribution of the breeding avifauna of Kansas.
It seemed to be inspecting them as a smaller avian might inspect a bug crawling across a road.
Perhaps sir can inform inquirer, in such case, what is curious avian object?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "avian" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: aquiline; avian; dovelike; nesting
