Sentence examples for caught birds from inspiring English sources

All day, we caught birds and worked the nets and tried to find our rhythm.

The most commonly caught birds are the large-billed seed finches (Oryzoborus crassirostris) known in the country as twa-twas.

Added to the number of caught birds, this represents a loss of at least 2,139 baits.

We conducted the experiments in 2004 on non-domesticated zebra finches [39](about F7 generation of wild caught birds) at the University of Bielefeld, Germany.

Among fishing regions, the percent of caught birds observed on the set that were subsequently retrieved during hauling was similar for the Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean and Central Pacific, ranging from 45 55%, but in the Coral Sea 9 of the 12 caught birds were hauled aboard.

When caught, birds were placed individually in cloth bird bags for transport purposes.

The wild-caught birds were caught with a baited whoosh net as juveniles at the end of September 2009 from the same population as the hand-reared birds.

They did however produce class-II and –III songs that were similar to those observed in wild-caught birds, even at the submotif level (see Fig. 2).

However, it is important to emphasise that from an applied perspective the actual mechanism underlying the differences is not important, because wild-caught birds will always have had less time in captivity than age-matched hand-reared birds, and wild-caught birds will always have been caught in some sort of trap.

The European Union banned the importation of wild-caught birds in 2007.

Wild-caught birds are commonly traded as pets, both legally and illegally, for international and domestic markets.