Sentence examples for beak between from inspiring English sources

The birds were so small and fragile that the usual breast, thigh, drumstick division didn't apply; people would just hold the beak between their manicured thumbs and forefingers and nosh their way through the entire bird, bones and all.

The difference in skull shape and robustness of the beak between commensal and non-commensal house sparrows is consistent with adaptations to process the larger and rachis encapsulated seeds of domesticated cereals among human associated populations.

Most Passer species are dull-coloured birds with short square tails and stubby conical beaks, between 11 and long.

He explains the anatomy and how the jaws are closed, and then how their unique side-to-side motion is achieved: He then quotes a Mr. Townson's account of how crossbills feed on pine cones, inserting their beaks between the scales and then forcing them sideways, opening the cone.

However, the interactions with F. teydea were probably the strongest due to the more similar shape and size of the beaks between these two species.

The series described above was repeated several times with 2 3, 4 5 min, and 1 hour beaks in-between the calculated insect disturbance is shown in Fig. 3.

Lack proposed that competition for seeds had caused the evolution of exaggerated differences in beak sizes between finch species that coexist.

It ruffles its hackles and lowers its tail, and sometimes holds its beak open between calls.

The angular velocities of gaze changes were calculated by determining the changes in beak orientation between two frames and relating them to the video frame rate (500 frames/s).

Finally, the MANOVA performed with beak traits between C. aurelioi and F. teydea polatzeki showed significant differences (Wilks' lambda = 0.098, d.f. = 3,4; p<0.05).

Differences in beak morphology between F. coelebs and C. aurelioi suggest that both species mainly fed on different type of seeds within the laurel forest.