Sentence examples for handling birds from inspiring English sources

A protégé of the Fords raised in Nottinghamshire, England, the manager of the Equinox school, Rob Waite, 43, is a master falconer with 28 years of experience handling birds of prey.

If it's noisy and immediate gratification you're after, I would suggest a car racetrack or bungee jumping weekend, not an afternoon of handling birds of prey, which offer a quieter and altogether more profound pleasure.

In routine surveillance of live poultry markets, handling birds for collecting tracheal or cloacal swabs is often unacceptable to the bird sellers.

Folk songs and plays encourage people to wash their hands properly and observe other safe behaviours when handling birds, poultry meat and eggs.

Wild passerines may be a source of C. psittaci zoonotic infection, and people should be advised to take appropriate hygiene precautions when handling bird feeders or wild birds.

Although more than 100 people have died in other countries from bird flu, which is extremely deadly when passed on to humans, the victims had worked in close contact with birds or handled birds that had died from the flu.

That is the worst-case scenario.Ministers were quick to point out that, for now at least, the disease poses little risk to humans who do not handle birds regularly.

As anyone who has handled birds will know they are surprisingly light for their size and this is because in addition to their lungs, birds have an extensive series of airsacs that extend from their lungs and invade their body cavity and even their bones.

Blood sampling did not appear to have any detrimental effect on the handled birds.

This indicates a considerably higher stress load in roughly handled broilers in comparison with gently handled birds.

"It is imperative that families are provided with accessible information about personal hygiene and how they handle birds," said Veneman.