Sentence examples for birds under a from inspiring English sources

Like many other small birds, it has in the past been trapped in rural areas at its night roosts as an easily available addition to the diet, and in medieval times the conceit of placing live birds under a pie crust just before serving may have been the origin of the familiar nursery rhyme: Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie!

In addition, since field studies cannot provide the experimental control of laboratory studies, it is important to use individually marked birds under a common and standardized recording protocol.

We adopted an applied perspective and tested the birds under conditions a researcher would face if sourcing the birds either by catching independent juveniles or hand-rearing nestlings.

You can also cook your butterflied bird under a brick.

Glass had an image of some gawky bird under a bush probing and pecking among a mulch of dead leaves.

In the second phase of the project, the team will develop an algorithm to pick out individual species, bird by bird, under a range of conditions.

In the store window across the street, she could see the reflection of the big neon bird under a white moon.

Chicken in black bean sauce is a slab of boned-out and roasted bird under a bright, fresh sauce that is a transatlantic flight from the sludgy, salty hit the title usually references.

I also enjoyed the Barberry Rice with saffron-cooked chicken ($9.99), a full leg of tender bird under a truck-load of basmati rice speckled with tart barberries.

If song complexity is indeed an honest signal of developmental stress, birds raised under a restricted food regime would be expected to develop less complex songs than birds with unlimited access to food.

In one photograph, a flock of DayGlo birds gather under a tree at dusk like invaders from some imagined tropical paradise.