Sentence examples for older birds from inspiring English sources

Older males had tail feathers with higher chroma values than yearling males, and all older birds had greater coverts with higher chroma values than yearling birds.

These older birds had a strong, gamey flavour.

Males tend to arrive slightly sooner than females, and older birds slightly sooner than yearlings.

Red feathers may appear randomly among the body feathers of older birds as well.

For the migration, older birds of prey fly along the inland Appalachian Ridge.

The treatment has also been given successfully to older birds after therapeutic doses of antibiotics to regenerate the intestinal microflora.

These will be older birds to free up prime breeding grounds on the mainland for younger, more prolific pairs.

Wannabe Alexas craved Mulberry for being aspirational yet accessible, older birds for well-made wares at competitive prices.

The behaviour of experienced older birds is more elaborate and more effective than that of younger individuals.

No sex-related differences were detected, while age-related patterns were found: yearlings showed a sharper increase of tissue residues along the pollution gradient than older birds.

We found that newly created habitat patches were colonized primarily by younger, second-year males, whereas slightly older shrubland habitat was occupied by site-faithful older birds.