Sentence examples for birds prey from inspiring English sources

Albatrosses and other sea birds prey on the bait, become hooked and drown.

On their Arctic or Antarctic breeding grounds these birds prey on insects, rodents, small birds, and the eggs and young of other seabirds.

After some difficulties (see Rudge 1998 for details), Kettlewell found that birds prey on moths in an order of conspicuousness similar to that gauged by human observers.

The black, long-beaked birds prey on the salmon that spend a week here transforming themselves into fish that can survive the ocean's salinity.

The DNA sequences of insects and seeds and for large predatory birds, prey such as small mammals or lizards reveal the food that attracts the birds to the airport in the first place.

Originally, ornithologists thought this color pattern acted as camouflage; reducing the chances that the birds' prey might spot them as they soar over the surface of the ocean, and reducing the chances that potential predators might spot these birds on their nests.

Alarm calls are the first line of defense against predators, especially for small social birds preyed upon by raptors.

Bird prey may occasionally be attacked in flight, with prey up to the size of Canada geese attacked and killed in mid-air.

Here, one might have thought, it should be able to demonstrate triumphantly that birds of prey and the birds they prey on can happily co-exist.

However, many nesting attempts produce 2 fledglings indicating that siblicide is not as common as in other birds of prey, especially some birds of prey.

Bird of prey, any bird that pursues other animals for food.