Fossil discoveries of feathered dinosaurs in northeastern China over the past two decades have challenged Archaeopteryx's place in bird evolution.
He locked himself in a downtown Los Angeles loft with a saxophone to prepare for his role as Charlie Parker in Bird.
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No-till, practised more in America than in Britain, means growing crops without ploughing fields, and leads to many-fold increases in bird population and a range of other environmental benefits.
The Lymington River Association (LRA) argued that the bigger W class ferries created a greater wash and were damaging the Lymington River with its protected mudflats and salt marshes, which are rich in bird and marine life.
Among Palawan's deep trove of wildlife, the most precious to the local economy, Gustillo explains, is the swiftlet, a small darting bird whose nests, built largely of its own spittle, are the essential ingredient in bird's nest soup.
However, when researchers looked at the 14 bird species that lived in both regions, they found that the same level of radiation was associated with twice as large a drop in bird numbers in Fukushima as in Chernobyl.
But with Johnson and Bird very much known quantities upon reaching the NBA, and with each having won a championship ring (Johnson in 1980, Bird in 1981) in their first two years, soon enough the NBA was all over prime time network television.
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Now, the ferocious dinosaur is depicted in a bird-like posture, tail in the air and head pitched forward of its two massive legs.
In December a team from the Brazilian Environmental Institute (IBAMA) tried in vain to find the bird in the Curaca region, some 600 km (370 miles) north of Salvador de Bahia.
Libes has formed a new accelerator for mission-driven companies in Seattle called Fledge (as in fledgling bird about to take flight).
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Pronovost remains, in a way, an odd bird in medical research.
And after it was all over, the whole team joined in a bird dance that the players on the bench had been doing during the game.
Some 75 booming males were recorded, mostly in the bird's stronghold of East Anglia, but also a handful scattered across other counties including Lancashire, Somerset and Yorkshire.
For an extended drive that takes in more bird habitats and a ghost town, drive east on Hwy 82 until you hit Hwy 80, the road to Tombstone.
And then Bette Midler sang, and told us all about how much she loves birds like all The Audubon Society people, and how she feeds them filtered water in her bird bath.
"I like how little performance there is in a person chatting at a table or just in a bird song and how it can also contain such depth, honest, and real soul, " he says.
Sabine El Chamaa, a Lebanese director whose latest short "Un Mardi (One Tuesday)" won first prize in the short film category at the Dubai Film Festival and will be screening in the Bird's Eye line-up, agreed.
After a dozen interviews--and still no job offer--Goldman put together an elaborate proposal and had it hand delivered by a man singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" in a bird suit (the chicken suit was unavailable).
Reports were sent in by bird watchers from across the Isle of Man and sightings included resident birds such as stonechats, robins and cormorants and winter visitors to the island such as twite, whooper swans and great northern divers.
At least 15 firefighters were involved in helping the bird, which had become entangled in branches on Gentleman's Walk.
He first made his living as a kangaroo shooter in outback Queensland where he learned about and fell in love with emus, Australia's largest native bird and the second largest bird in the world after the ostrich.
It has given its fans countless thrills, ever since Lee Petty (daddy of Richard) sped to the checkered flag in his Olds simultaneously with Johnny Beauchamp's T-Bird in a photo finish that required three days to sort out.
The drawing of his coat-of-arms, held at the College of Arms in London, is thought to be the first depiction of the bird in Europe.
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Shapiro's group compared the sequences of a pigeon taken from an overpass in Utah and another bird living by a lake in Virginia.
At the same time, an alphabet soup of influenzas, including the new H7N9 outbreak in China, smoldering incidents of H5N1 bird flu in Southeast Asia, and even periodic reminders of the 2009 H1NI swine flu pandemic, remain front of mind.
Over 16, 000 diseased pigs were dumped in Shanghai rivers in March, possibly causing the outbreak of bird flu in the first place.
The birds of prey have been brought in after library users complained of having to avoid bird droppings in the courtyard.
Escaped eagle owls have previously been caught in Inverness in 2009 and in 2006, when an owl was seen feeding from bird tables in people's gardens.
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