Sentence examples for marked birds from inspiring English sources

They are boldly marked birds with a snipelike body and bill.

Visual identification, even in the hand, may be impossible for poorly marked birds.

These include: i) only marked birds with known breeding status were targeted to avoid repeated sampling on the same individuals in the same breeding season.

We studied short-term resilience in a community of individually marked birds, following this community through the catastrophic destruction of its forest habitat by Hurricane Iris in Belize, Central America.

We individually marked birds with numbered aluminum bands and a combination of two color bands.

During each hour of observation, we recorded the presence/absence of individually marked birds in the nest site area.

That's partly because the conventional technique of marking birds with bands has failed miserably at clarifying the bird's migration patterns--only one or two out of tens of thousands of banded birds are ever recovered.

Although we have successfully used a similar method before (Brilot et al., 2009), more reliable methods for assessing manoeuvrability might be provided by using solid obstacles and marking birds' wings with ink (Swaddle et al., 1996).

Tomorrowland marks Bird's second live-action feature, after Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol; he had previously completed three well-regarded animated films, The Iron Giant, The Incredibles and Ratatouille.

The assumption that responding ravens may have used individual-specific acoustic cues rather than class-specific cues receives further support when we examine the identity of marked responding birds: there was a tendency for responding birds to approach the speakers that played calls of ravens lower in rank than themselves.

Individual rank was extracted and the relative rank between birds whose calls were used as stimuli and marked responding birds was determined ('higher' or 'lower'; see Table 1).