Sentence examples for spruce cones from inspiring English sources

Then up above we heard the wink-wink calls of white-winged crossbills foraging on spruce cones.

Now through Jan . 10at the botanical garden, 10 trains on more than 1,000 feet of track will weave through winter landscapes of castles, streams, rivers, mountains and New York landmarks, including a Brooklyn Bridge of birch bark and spruce cones.

Up to 10 ft tall at the shoulder, with a shaggy brown coat and upward-curving tusks, the American mastodon browsed on coarse vegetation such as spruce cones and twigs, leaves, and mosses.

I had gathered foraging data on Sitka spruce cones, and I and my first graduate student, Bill Holimon, searched throughout much of the range of Sitka spruce (rainforests of the Pacific Northwest) for a fifth call type.

b A white-winged crossbill (Loxia leucoptera leucoptera; upper left) and a Newfoundland crossbill (Loxia curvirostra percna; lower right), and representative partially closed and closed black spruce cones from the mainland (upper left) and Newfoundland (lower right; from Parchman and Benkman 2002).

In the absence of red squirrels, the number of seeds per cone increased, and the ratio of cone mass to seed mass in black spruce cones decreased by a third on Newfoundland relative to nearby areas in Quebec where red squirrels are present (Parchman and Benkman 2002).

Each is simple but different, ranging from helping some ginger find its way to plucking the right tune on a spruce cone's kalimba, and the whole thing is tied together beautifully.

The temporal variation of partial migrants was largely due to variation in spruce seed eaters, the siskin Carduelis spinus and the crossbill Loxia curvirostra, the numbers of which varied according to the spruce cone crop.

An intact Norway spruce cone at 545 cm sediment depth and dated 11,000 cal yr BP [ 42], was used for aDNA analysis.

In cases, however, where macrofossils are well preserved and retrieved in large quantities from multiple time horizons [ 48], they can easily provide multiple genotypes suitable for population genetic studies similarly to our recovery of an intact 11,000-year-old Norway spruce cone from Tăul dintre Brazi.

Black spruces bear cones that are only about 1 inch (2.5 cm) long, purple when immature and reddish-brown when mature.