These are noisy, bold birds, confident around Man, and very much 'at home' in heavily disturbed habitats.
Over lunch, Audie and Beth sat hard-ly speaking, except to remark on the weather, the sun-flecked veranda, the flowering trees, the bolder birds raiding the leftovers at vacated tables.
Some of the bolder birds sat on her arms, on her shoulders, even on her hat, and the strenuous beating of wings all around her, nearly obliterating her small figure, caused her to cry out with delight.
A leaf from an eighth-century manuscript of the Koran reputed to be from the Hijaz and another in gold lettering on blue ground from a ninth-century manuscript likely to be from the east-Iranian province of Khorasan had nothing in common with the north-Iranian bowl painted with a bold stylized bird in the 10th-11th century. 10th-11th century
Score: 4/5 Why you should listen: The folksy band have put together a bold and bird-obsessed third album.
And they're made, too, of all the times I've seen them before, and for an flickering instant as the fieldfares blow in, I'm a child standing on tiptoe on the edge of a playing field, squinting to work out what these bold, patterned birds in the frosted trees might be.
There are bright green frogs and bold toads, birds waking up the forest with their invigorating chorus, insects in every nook and cranny, and primates and marsupials like nowhere else in the world.
One question that arises from our observation of alterations in BOLD response in birds that produce aberrant or variant song is whether there is a correlation between how well a bird imitates its tutor's song and the volume and magnitude of BOLD activation of the auditory areas by that song.
COI sequences utilized for these three groups were drawn from "Published Projects" section in BOLD [12], namely "Birds of North America -Phase II [22] "Barcoding of Canadian freshwater fishes" [23], and "Hesperidae of the ACG 1" [24].
