Sentence examples for birds were substantially from inspiring English sources
Diversity and abundance of both cavity- and open-nesting birds were substantially and consistently lower in treatments with lower amounts of downed CWD and/or standing snags, as was biomass of invertebrates.
In 2012, due primarily to funding constraints, the captive breeding program was restricted to one site and the density of breeding birds was substantially reduced; 32 fledglings were produced: 24 (75 %) were released, 5 (16 %) were retained, and 3 (9 %) died.
The distribution of (log-transformed) maximum longevity is strongly bimodal in birds, passerines being substantially more short-lived than other birds (see Additional file 1).
Furthermore, the effectiveness of live bird market closures varied between regions; short-term closures were substantially less effective than interventions in other regions.
"The crowds were substantially larger than last year.
"African-American voters were substantially targeted".
The OR gene repertoire of the two bird species was substantially larger with 479 and 553 OR gene homologs in the chicken and zebra finch, respectively (including 111 and 221 pseudogenes, respectively).
Nevertheless, "the composition — which birds were around — actually changed pretty substantially over the past 93 years, conforming fairly well to the campus landscape at the time," said Allison Shultz, a former UC Berkeley student who conducted the survey for her honors thesis.
"The levels of radio-frequency radiation that affected the bird's orientation are substantially below anything previously thought to be biophysically plausible, and far below levels recognized as affecting human health," Joseph L. Kirschvink, a professor at the California Institute of Technology, wrote in an essay accompanying Wednesday's study in Nature.
"Birds were only sounds".
