He gazed delightedly at the Prime Minister's face, at her whole head, beaked and crowned, which he saw was a fine if improbable fusion of the Vorticist and the Baroque.
Morphometrics were taken as described by Dunn and Wright [ 42]: wing length was used as a measure of feather growth, and head-beak length and tarsus length as measures of body size.
Model structure and predictor variables were identical to those constructed for estimating WBC index with the exception of the response variable; these models were repeated with head-beak length and tarsus length as response variables to determine whether any associations with parasitism were with size or with feather length.
By-products are not a good source of protein because they are the left over parts from production, such as feathers, feet, heads, beaks, fur etc. Identify the source/sources of fat.
Poke the stick into the penguin's head at beak level, then pack snow around the beak, shaping it into a beak shape as you go.
Its head and beak resemble those of the caracara.
The physical effort of its singing seemed so slight — head tilting, beak parting — compared with the quantity of its delicate, laddering song.
While a helper holds each rooster's legs, Decena rubs the rinse into the neck feathers, then wipes the head and beak.
There was a bowl of blood, pig's apparently, and next to it a brace of chicken's feet lying on – I peered closer – its head, with beak intact.
After three young female assistants placed stencils in the shape of an eagle's wings, head and beak onto the panels, Cai, a onetime serious student of martial arts, moved gracefully as he sprinkled different grades of gunpowder, some custom-made for him.
