Sentence examples for patterns of bird from inspiring English sources

The count is a valuable environmental tool as well as a method of tracking migrations and changing patterns of bird behavior.

Works by Charles Long are similarly befuddling: vaguely Giacometti-esque, vaguely figurative skinny sculpture in papier-mâché, plaster, and assorted debris on steel armatures, their forms derived from found patterns of bird droppings.

They studied the ranges of all the birds, looking for geographic patterns of bird evolution.

Using multivariate analyses we describe the main patterns of bird species abundance and composition in relation to local habitat variables.

Overall, our results indicate that the large-scale patterns of bird species richness are the result of several divergent, group-specific processes, and that understanding diversity gradients requires the identification of the functional ecological groups included.

We used detrended correspondence analysis to 1) identify primary patterns of bird communities surveyed from 2006 to 2011 at point transects, 2) estimate ecological scale of change needed to achieve treatment objectives from the relative dissimilarity of survey points to the ordination region delineating sagebrush bird communities, and 3) measure changes in pre- and posttreatment bird communities.

They made glass targets, tied feathers to them and trappers sent them into the air from different angles and speeds to emulate the flight patterns of birds.

It was while he was making notes on the flight patterns of birds, and particularly the fork-tailed red kite, that he was reminded of an early experience, and wrote the only passage about his childhood in the notebooks.

Alexander Whitley's Murmuring is a new work inspired by the wheeling, flocking flight patterns of birds, and completing the evening is a reworking of Christopher Wheeldon's intricately crafted Mesmerics, set to music by Philip Glass.

The company, known for geometric patterns like Pyramids (shown on pillow, top right), has begun producing lush patterns of birds and flowers, including Peacock (shown on dark gray pillow) and Vintage Blossoms (shown on middle pillow and duvet cover).

Other carvings consist of flat ivory pieces that were painted or stained a dark colour and then carved to form intricate patterns of birds and animals or geometric figures, the carvings finally being stained with other colours or left plain.