pheasant with its scarlet mask. He gazes upon the plumage with black spots sown upon the golden feathers. The boy’s father walks towards the fallen bird to see the pheasant that had been shot. Audubon picks up the fallen bird and puts the bird in his field bag and the hunting continues. By the end of the long day, the hunting party has collected thirteen birds and one raccoon. The hunting party returns to the family home in the French countryside. Audubon brings the pheasant that he killed to his room
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Sometimes we make fun of people and play tricks on them. In this Aesop fable I am going to share with you a fox has decided to play a trick on a crane. The Fox one day thought of a plan to amuse himself at the expense of the Stork, at whose odd appearance he was always laughing. “You must come and dine with me today,” he said to the Stork, smiling to himself at the trick he was going to play. The Stork gladly accepted the invitation and arrived in good time and with a very good appetite. For dinner
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Emperor Penguin Research When I talk about penguins, what is the first image that came in your head? A little bird in tuxedo, that’s skating on the ice? Well, you may think more than that. They are some interesting birds that live in Antarctica. I’ll be telling you some facts about one specific type of penguins, - the Emperor Penguins. The emperor penguins are the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species and they only live in Antarctica. They can be 110 cm to 130
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During my science project I was asking myself the question: Do peanuts make chicken eggs larger (weigh more)? For my hypothesis, I had the impression that the peanuts would make the eggs bigger knowing the fact that peanuts have a lot of nutrients and protein in them. Several sources on the internet indicated that peanuts would make chicken eggs larger. I did my project on five different chickens (Hens). During my procedure, I was giving my chickens 4 cups of food and 8 tablespoons of peanuts
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This past week, the same day I photographed the Brown Creepers in my last post, I was making the trip home after work, when my good karma finally paid off. I was starting to change lanes to turn when I saw this on the roadside. [singlepic id=1093 w=450] I often have trouble distinguishing a Cooper's Hawk from a Sharp-shinned without putting some work into it, but this one was large enough to remove any doubt. This was a Cooper's and likely a female since they are larger than males. And this was
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In addition, the graphs show that there is a greater number of birds that have a beak depth relatively close to the calculated average. 2. While analyzing the distribution of beaks between the survivors and nonsurvivors, you can immediately see that the graphs express a similar curvy line if the tops of the horizontal
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Prologue Sorry if the novel is not understood, English is not my mother tongue Nest is the name of the protagonist, please do not get confused On weekends, the sunlight is seen through the window, which for the nest that he thought was a quiet day, where he would sleep all day and play all night. * ding ding ding * "who ruins my dream, CALLED" Nest that is lying in his bed was awakened by a sound similar to that of a bell. * ding ding ding ding ding ding * "I SAID CALLED" * ding ding ding
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DUCK BILLED PLAYPUS Duck billed platypus is one of the most unique animals on planet earth. It was first believed to be a hoax animal due to its weird appearance which I will talk about. But after further research, like mapping its DNA, scientists then agreed it was real. The other surprising thing about this animal is ability to lay eggs and breast feed too, meaning it is an egg laying mammal which is not so common with many mammals we familiar with.(very weird) Its common name "platypus" is the
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parasite laying an egg in one of approximately eight different species of birds nest, destroying the other eggs, and having the host bird raise offspring that is genetically non-identical to their own. Cuckoos and other brood parasites use egg mimicry to increase the number of offspring that are raised. This is important because it gives researchers a look at bird development, adaptation, and intelligence in different species of birds. How cuckoos are able to lay these different colored eggs remains a
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A chicken wing can compare to a human arm. In fact, there are many similarities. First of all, both human arm and chicken wing contain the humerus, radius, and ulna. Those help the upper arm function. While observing the depiction of human arm and chicken wing, I saw where each component was placed and that help me figure out how exactly each part works and what it helps move. The ulna and radius both support the arms and help it work.The ulna is the bigger of the two. The humerus functions as the
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