At the site of a reservoir where, just two months earlier, Caribou had seen waterfowl, we pulled up face to face with a very handsome man who sat straddling his motorcycle, a woman at his side, and smiled at us implacably while Caribou determined that the site had been bulldozed for fish-farming and was now devoid of birds.
The oceans are empty, the skies tinged yellow by evaporating oil and toxic dispersant devoid of birds, dogs mysteriously have no fleas, and in an area usually besieged by mosquitoes, there is little need for repellent, and the usual trucks spraying are nowhere to be seen.
The contrast with the scorched and scoured grouse moors of the east side of the national park, which employ hardly anyone, concentrate wealth in tax havens and are unmysteriously devoid of most birds of prey, could not be greater.
The field guide begins with a foreword by Don Riepe, Jamaica Bay Guardian, American Littoral Society, who quickly debunks New York myths about about the city as "a concrete jungle devoid of any bird life save pigeons, starlings and house sparrows".
Although eutherian eggs are devoid of yolk, both birds and reptiles, two other extant amniote groups, have telolecithal eggs.
One of the driest places on Earth, devoid of insects, animals or birds and so arid it registers as a parched brown even from outer space, Chile's Atacama has qualities that make it an accessible gateway to the past, qualities that draw three distinct groups interested in that kind of exploration.
The birds are devoid of hormones, antibiotics and additives, and "they don't have the fat content of those Butterballs you buy at the store".
Papua New Guinea possesses a rich variety of reptiles, marsupials (animals that carry their young in pouches), native freshwater fishes, and birds but is almost devoid of large mammals.
She picked up a palm tanager, a drab olive-green bird at first glance devoid of charm.
When the Chinese flag was raised in the Bird's Nest, suffocatingly devoid of moving air that night, the flag suddenly snapped to attention, fluttering in a synthetic breeze created by air jets in the flag pole.
Periyar also argued that birds, animals, and worms, which are considered to be devoid of rationalism do not create castes, or differences of high and low in their own species.
