Sentence examples for birds were covered from inspiring English sources

Many of these were not related to the spill; only 28 of the dead birds were covered in oil.

The center was founded after two oil tankers collided in San Francisco Bay in 1971 and 7,000 birds were covered in oil.

The RSPCA said the birds were covered in "what appears to be the same white substance" that affected hundreds of birds in February.

The charity said the birds were covered in "what appears to be the same white substance" that killed hundreds of birds in February.

Mr Exley said that in 1994 hundreds of birds were affected in the Irish sea and in 1998, 1,100 birds were covered by the pollutant.

The bodies of these birds are covered with a variety of scales, dots and brown, tan and black patches that look almost as if they are plumage modules that have added, subtracted or moved around the bird during the process of evolution.

This neuronal activation of Cluster N is movement independent (Feenders et al., 2008) and disappears when the eyes of the birds are covered (Mouritsen et al., 2005; Liedvogel et al., 2007a).

Staff at its West Hatch centre in Taunton rescued and cleaned about 470 birds, mainly guillemots, which were covered in an oily substance, thought to be polyisobutene (PIB).

The slick was huge; birds and other wildlife were covered in oil, dying; and hardly any containment effort had begun.

The participants had their bodies painted and then were covered with bird down adhered with the wearer's blood.

Both dinosaurs had bird-like characteristics and probably were covered with feathers, they said.