Sentence examples for birds were trapped from inspiring English sources

Closer, Espeseth saw that the birds were trapped on an island, a neat-mowed mound of grass ringed with a small fence and signs saying "Please Do Not Feed".

Night-migrating birds are attracted to light (during this year's Tribute in Light, thousands of birds were trapped in the beams for hours) and unable to recognize glass as a solid barrier.

Wild birds were trapped in nets in large numbers, and sparrow pie was a traditional dish, thought, because of the association of sparrows with lechery, to have aphrodisiac properties.

Furthermore, we chose metrics of sperm quality that appear to be less susceptible to change due to time since collection and temperature because many of our samples were collected from localities that prevented immediate assessment (i.e. birds were trapped long distances from roads and other locations were measures could be performed).

The birds were trapped in mist nets at ground level.

The birds were trapped in February 2003, 2 months after we obtained samples from the horses in Coahuila State.

These provide routes for access, but also if animals, mammals or birds are trapped and die, the carcasses attract insects.

The subspecies are hard to distinguish visually where they occur together in Africa, but a wing length greater than 80 mm (3.15 in) confirms S. b. woodwardi when birds are trapped.

Overall, many hundreds of thousands of birds are trapped and killed each year, a source of concern for some of the rarest species (for example, only about 2,000 short-tailed albatrosses are known to still exist).

When the birds flew into it, they were trapped and airbrushed various colors before being released all over the city.

In our ongoing influenza A virus surveillance studies in wild birds in northern Europe (30 ), Mallards were trapped with duck traps in Lekkerkerk and Krimpen aan de Lek in the Netherlands and Ottenby Bird Observatory on the southernmost point of the island Öland in Sweden.