Sentence examples for measure bird from inspiring English sources
To measure bird attacks, they counted beak marks on the dummies' modeling-clay bodies and wax-coated paper wings.
To measure bird biodiversity, species richness and relative abundance were calculated, and they could account for the overall trend in biodiversity but might mask the process of species replacement.
We did not measure birds being still completely or partly in juvenile plumage, as well as adult birds that showed heavy moult (showing more than 20 growing contour feathers).
In this study, this gap is addressed by measuring bird diversity both within a protected forest corridor, and in the agricultural mosaic surrounding it.
Across a network comprising 16 such plantings aged 10 24 years and eight old growth rainforest reference sites, spread across about 700 km2 in the Australian Wet Tropics, we measured bird community composition and 18 attributes related to the sites' local and landscape vegetation cover and other spatial properties.
We measured bird infestation with ticks and then compared the occurrence of the ticks on the birds with different foraging habits.
We measured birds' body asymmetries, detected avian haemosporidians, and counted white blood cells as an immune measure of each individual per forest type.
Neophobia was assessed by measuring birds' latency to feed from a dish of highly favored food in the presence of various novel objects at approximately 10-day intervals.
The team measured birds' responses to recordings of another male's song, noting how often males approached or attacked the speakers, and found that aggression depended not on the density of sparrows, but on the availability of food in the environment.
The experiment involved placing food in a clear tube and measuring birds' intelligence by looking at whether they gave in to the impulse to retrieve it as soon as they saw it or reached around the side of the tube to access the treat.
