Sentence examples for birds behavior in from inspiring English sources

Then they examined if the number of eggs affected the parent birds' behavior, in particular, its willingness to return to the nest to feed their chicks when confronted with a predator.

Morton studies bird behavior in the field and finds it very difficult to get away from campus for full days to devote to her studies.

Mr. Murphy and other bird experts said the Bay Area population of thousands of native Western gulls had not grown recently, which suggests that it is changes in the birds' behavior that are worsening the Giants' sea gull predicament.

In the song control nuclei (HVC and RA), we entered singing behavior (song bouts and time spent singing) as predictors of Fos immunoreactive nuclei counts in all males (nesting and control) firstly to test for song-brain correlations as previously reported [28] and secondly to test for a relationship between Fos immunoreactivity and the variation in the birds' behavior.

Allen pointed out that the birds' behavior, as recorded by Bartram, is in complete agreement with the caracara's.

The 7 x 35 gives you a smaller bird in a bigger picture frame but has lots of sharply-focused habitat around the bird giving you the ability to better observe the birds behavior.

The basic idea of PSO borrows from the birds' flocking behavior in the process of their hunting food.

Amanda Seed, an animal cognition researcher at the University of St. Andrews in the United Kingdom, says the Groningen model's failure to predict the birds' caching behavior in the new experiments could "bring the model down like a pack of cards".

The PSO algorithm presents a simple social model by inspiration from bird collective behavior in finding food.

This apparatus allowed us to carefully observe the bird's behavior in real time.

A handful of studies have hinted that smell does play a role in bird behavior (ScienceNOW, 29 October 2004), but very little is known about the underlying biology.