We have great rooms, look down on society, see at least one parade a month, and can't get the former tenant out of our heads — she had made her own world here, for twenty-six yearshehe lived buried in ice-packs, siphons, trash, mammoth rose-wall-paper, signs of the zodiac and twenty-six birds, half of them uncaged.
We have great rooms, look down on society, see at least one parade a month, and can't get the former tenant out of our heads—she had made her own world here, for twenty-six yearshehe lived buried in ice-packs, siphons, trash, mammoth rose-wall-paper, signs of the zodiac and twenty-six birds, half of them uncaged.
Fishermen flocked to its shores, and the lake and the surrounding area became habitat for more than 400 species of birds — half the entire number of species to be found nationwide.
So far, it's killed nearly 100 Californians and tens of thousands of birds, including half of the yellow-billed magpies that are the signature bird of the Central Valley.
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is home to 45 mammal species, including polar bears, wolves, moose, and wolverines, and more than 200 species of birds, about half of which breed within the refuge's boundaries.
"Of our bird world, half of them pass through here.
This microhabitat variation gives Kruger a phenomenal diversity of some 520 bird species, half of which are resident.
They first appeared about 55 million years ago [ 89] and now form the largest radiation within birds, including almost half of all 10,000 extant bird species [ 90].
In Goat's Hole Cave, in Wales, he found the bones of a hyena, a bear, a rhinoceros, an elephant (actually a mastodon), deer, rats, and birds, and roughly half of a human skeleton, which had been stained with red ochre and laid to rest with periwinkle shells and an assortment of ivory rods and broken armlets.
The researchers, who published their findings online this week in Biology Letters, concluded that the birds were resting half of their brains at a time in order to catch up on sleep while staying on guard.
Harpies, the half-bird, half-woman creatures of Greek mythology, terrorise Pullman's underworld, and the boatman is described as "aged beyond age, huddled in a robe of sacking bound with string, crippled and bent," closely resembling Seneca's description of the mythical Charon as "a filthy old man who conveys the terrified ghosts" across to Hades.
