When we moved here six years ago, there was a wealth of bird life; I put up a feeder and had a steady stream of cardinals, chickadees, downies, and nuthatches all winter, and the cardinals and chickadees brought their young ones in the summer.
In recent years, a wealth of bird-like nonavian maniraptorans and primitive ("dinosaur -like) birdinosaur -likenearthed from Mesozoic rocks worldwide—these discoveries have consolidated the notion that birds evolved from maniraptoran thavepod dinosaurs.
Other countryside sites close to Bradwall include the Wheelock Rail Trail for walkers and cyclists, about 2.5 mile away in Sandbach, and Brereton Heath Local Nature Reserve about 6 mile away, which includes a 15 acre lake and "a wealth of bird life, including great and lesser spotted woodpeckers, nuthatch, treecreepers, kingfisher, heron, great crested grebe and goldfinch".
This spacious, quiet corner of the Pyrenees, with its old ways, lack of people, wealth of flowers, butterflies and birds, reminds me of how Wales was 50 years ago, and is no longer.
Monteverde's cloud forest is also home to a wealth of amphibians and migratory birds.
In particular, the researchers point out the wealth of Internet videos depicting birds of prey attacking drones.
Today, the theropod origin of birds is supported by a wealth of evidence ranging from skeletal anatomy to molecular data.
Near the end of the 20th century the opening of China to systematic exploration for fossils has yielded a wealth of material on dinosaurs and the origin of birds and mammals.
The first settlers encountered Madagascar's wealth of megafauna, including giant lemurs, elephant birds, giant fossa and the Malagasy hippopotamus.
In recent years, a wealth of evidence taken from comparisons between the skeletons of these dinosaurs and those of birds has been supplemented by diverse lines of evidence in support of the same evolutionary relationship.
