For example, we expected to see more garbage where people reside, more berries inland and more birds in scats in the vicinity of the historical lesser snow goose (Anser caerulescens caerulescens, henceforth snow goose) and common eider (Somateria mollissima) colonies near La Pérouse Bay.
Using a wide vocal range -- it sounds similar to Gilberto Gil's, but has a deeper low end -- he's a wired, kinetic singer, jamming details between the lines: bird calls, guttural explosions, scatting, back-of-the-throat trills as a line tails off.
Analyses of stomach contents and scat have found evidence of birds, small mammals, and even moose and deer.
Ms. Redhouse is a member of the Dine, the Navajo tribe, and calls her exploratory vocal style "eco-spiritual" because it blends bird and animal calls, traditional Native American chants and scat lines.
The origin of the disease is possum scat, which is then carried by birds, which are immune, and dropped in a horse's feed supply.
We tabulated the percent scat occurrences that included at least one food item that was: vegetation, animal (mammals, birds or eggs) and land-based animal (LBA; i.e., birds, eggs, caribou, rodents) across all piles.
The SCAT teams were focussing their surveys on other heavily oiled areas, and on nearby rookeries, some of which were oiled while birds were nesting.
"Scat!" Susan called out.
