Sentence examples for seed eating from inspiring English sources
Conical: adapted for seed eating.
Finally, we reduced the number of cranial and beak traits of the three sympatric seed eating forest birds co-occurring in Tenerife (i.e. C. aurelioi, F. teydea and F. coelebs) using a Principal Component Analyses (PCA).
The animals showed exceptional seed eating behavior, making wild seeds mostly unavailable.
Finches typically have triangular bills suited to seed eating, so the radical divergence of the iiwi and the Hawaiian honeycreepers to which it is related constitutes a remarkable instance of evolutionary plasticity.
The American sparrows are seed-eating New World birds with conical bills, brown or gray plumage, and distinctive head patterns.
Only a few parrots, especially certain of the Australian seed-eating species, damage crops and therefore are hunted and killed.
It happens because too few people have the courage or capacity to stand against powerful institutions on behalf of powerless creatures like red seed-eating birds".
It is quite large and muscular in seed-eating birds, smaller in birds of other diets (such as geese and swans), and nearly absent in the owls.
Old grazed fallows were generally associated with the highest abundances of both invertebrate and seed-eating birds, particularly that of winter visitors.
In the first winter, several species and the guild of seed-eating passerines were significantly more abundant on CT established plots, in both crop types.
Conversely, modernisation involving more cereals harvested as arable silage, under current practice, is likely to reduce stubble quality for seed-eating birds.
