Sentence examples for bird to avoid from inspiring English sources

The cowbird is the only species that has these kinds of pauses, the researchers say, and they allow the bird to avoid any bad effects of the wing movements on sound production.

The writers were trying to figure out a way to have Bart kill the bird without actually wanting to kill it, and decided to give the gun a crooked sight that Bart would be unaware of, so that when Bart intentionally takes a shot at the right of the bird to avoid it, the bullet would still hit the bird.

Two data points per bird were available in only a very small number of cases where a bird was caught twice either within or between winters, so one point was selected at random for each bird to avoid pseudoreplication as the sample size of replicate points was too small to allow the use of mixed-effects models.

However, a new analysis of the spread of avian malaria shows that for the birds, at least, there is a real worry.Laszlo Garamszegi, of the Doñana Biological Station in Spain, studied patterns of malarial infections in birds to avoid confounding human factors in determining the epidemiology of a closely related parasite.

However, we need to make the right decisions that are based on the best science". "Nobody knows what's in the bird's head, but presumably there's an inherited behavior that allows the birds to avoid avian predators who could perch overhead," said Michael Bean, wildlife director for the Environmental Defense Fund, an advocacy group.

Good enough for migratory birds to avoid predators when napping in the daytime.

The Browns are now studying whether hormonal differences may lead some birds to avoid the stress of large colonies.

They instead tried to encourage the birds to avoid the old nest by setting up a cherry picker festooned with flags and balloons nearby.

He lands in China about nine days later, without re-encountering the illusions of men and women he had seen on his outward journey and with the help of his Ebelus, which helps the birds to avoid plummeting to Earth as the weight of Gonsales and his Engine threatens to become too much for them.

In this respect the solid object condition benefits the reversal by additional immediate feedback, which may be used for inferring the reward location, thus allowing the birds to avoid checking the unrewarded stimulus twice.

In my backyard in Connecticut, for instance, the caterpillar of the swallowtail butterfly Papilio troilus does a brilliant imitation of bird poop, to avoid being eaten by birds.