Powerful owls (Ninox strenua) are a top-order predator the have been shown to reside in urban environments, but increasing urbanization has also been demonstrated to significantly reduce available habitat.
Indeed, De Villiers might well have landed the Test job if the selectors were not worried by the fact that he has to combine wicketkeeping duties with being a top-order batsman himself.
"I still believe that when I'm playing at my best I'm a world-class player and I'm desperate for the kind of runs that come with being a top-order player for England, but I've known over a long time with England that your job is to score runs.
He's a top-order batsman and bowls some off-spin.
Lomborg does not deny global warming is occurring but his method of applying cost-benefit analyses to global problems, such as poverty alleviation, usually finds that it is not a top order problem, or recommends investment in research and development rather than trying to reduce emissions.
England's best hopes of hauling in a huge total were for a top order, described by Broad as "scary" before this match, to attack that area from the start.
It is far from a top order issue for most Australians who would, quite sensibly, struggle to explain how section 18D of the Racial Discrimination Act works with 18C.
The first of the documents disclosed by Mr. Snowden was a top-secret order to a Verizon subsidiary requiring it to turn over three months of calling records for all its customers.
Thus, a study on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in childhood cancer survivors is a top priority in order to optimize the treatment of children with cancer.
Where England certainly would hold the upper hand is in the use of Graeme Swann against a top order that is likely to contain four left-handers in the top six.
On the match situation, in which England are looking to squeeze out more lower-order runs to bail out a top order that was 84 for four after Alastair Cook won the toss, Bairstow said: "I have no idea what is a good score, we could go out and lose four for spit in the morning – who knows? "Until both teams have batted we won't know what a par score is.
