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  Birds - Little Penguin
Little Penguins are threatened by a range of human-related activities.
Colonies of Little Penguins have declined or disappeared in breeding areas altered by grazing or erosion.
Young birds wandering out of their parents' territory will be attacked by other adults.
www.amonline.net.au /birds/factsheets/penguin.htm   (960 words)

  
 Birds - Little penguin 
The fairy penguin's streamlined shape and the efficient propulsion of its flippers (used underwater in a similar manner to that of birds in the air) enables it to seek prey in shallow short dives, frequently between the 10–30 m range and very occasionally extending to 60 m.
Little penguins can be seen at a number of locations around the State.
Birds breed annually, but in eastern Australia the usual clutch of two eggs may be found as early as May or as late as October.
www.parks.tas.gov.au /wildlife/birds/penguin.html   (834 words)

  
 British Garden Birds - Little Owl
The upperparts, wings and crown are grey-brown or brown and mottled with white; the underparts are whitish with brown streaks.
Little Owls are often active during the daytime and can often be seen perched on branches close to the trunk, fence posts, or walls out in the open.
The Little Owl is resident and, apart from young birds dispersing from their natal sites, they do not move far from their nest sites.
www.garden-birds.co.uk /birds/littleowl.htm   (348 words)

  
 Little Tern, Sterna albifrons
As a result, the surviving Scroby little terns re-united with the remnant attempting to rear young on Yarmouth's north beach.
Little terns work hard for a living and by no means every dive brings rewards.
Little terns begin the long southward flight to the Atlantic seaboard of West Africa towards the end of the month.
www.birdsofbritain.co.uk /bird-guide/little-tern.htm   (686 words)

  
 Little Island, Little Birds ~
Little as it is, a tern is an inspiring character.
Lilliputian-sized plots on the western and southwestern sides of Bodkin are overgrown by salt meadow grass (thick clumps of it that mat and cowlick), wild rye, wild lettuce, sheep sorrel and wild bean.
Because of the peculiar ways each species of plant competes for space (lots of pushing and shoving), there are created a myriad of cubbyholes and passageways used by parent birds to enshroud their eggs and by the chicks to rest, putter or hide out.
www.bayweekly.com /year98/lead6_38.html   (1975 words)

  
 Siren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In early Greek art the Sirens were represented as birds with the heads, and sometimes chests, of women.
The 10th century encyclopedia Suda [1] says that from their chests up Sirens had the form of sparrows, below they were women, or, alternatively, that they were little birds with women's faces.
Birds were chosen because of their characteristic beautiful voice.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sirens   (622 words)

  
 Backyard twitchers a big help to little birds - National - smh.com.au
To help discover what birds are flying around our backyards, the museum, in collaboration with Birds Australia, has established a website where it encourages people to record their sightings.
Dr Major said research had shown that Indian mynas, the "cane toads" of the bird world that were introduced to eat pests on sugar cane, did not appear to be the culprits in chasing little native birds from backyards.
Little birds required dense shrubs to protect their eggs and young from bigger aggressors, and replacing lawns with native shrubs such as hakeas and tea-trees might help tilt the balance back in their favour.
www.smh.com.au /news/national/backyard-twitchers-a-big-help-to-little-birds/2005/09/02/1125302746465.html   (542 words)

  
 Australian Museum - Wild Kids - Birds - Little Penguin
Little Penguins are the smallest penguins in the world and are the only penguin to breed in mainland Australia.
Little Penguins are fl and white diving birds that live in small colonies in the seas of southern Australia.
Little Penguins dig a burrow under a rock or grass tussock and line it with grass and leaves to make their nest.
www.austmus.gov.au /wild_kids/birds/little_penguin.htm   (247 words)

  
 Little birds are spry, quick, and tough
Lately I've been getting messages about crows "chasing away all of the little birds." It's true crows wear fl hats that begin at their toes, but it's useful to remember that small birds have their own reasons for their incredible mobility.
In fact, one of the things small, flocking birds will not stand for is a display of weakness among their number.
The hummers are so consistently belligerent to the other birds, and each other -- they chase one another so often it feels routine -- most of the birds are used to it and ignore the hummers' efforts at intimidation.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/09/27/HO257439.DTL   (772 words)

  
 Thomasburg Walks: Little Brown Birds--Part 2
After I posted Little Brown Birds I had a tickling feeling that there was a bird I was forgetting.
This is another bird that I should be able to find here--not as common as the field sparrow, chipping sparrow or song sparrow (or the savannah sparrow--also very common, but since we have no savannah I always forget to include it).
So, to recap, the little brown birds in Thomasburg are the chipping sparrow, song sparrow, field sparrow, savannah sparrow, grasshopper sparrow, vesper sparrow, and the clay-colored sparrow.
thomasburg-walks.blogspot.com /2005/06/little-brown-birds-part-2.html   (620 words)

  
 Four Little Birds: Many Big Lessons
This is a story of four little birds: the one that died and the three that didn’t but could have.
There was blood coming through the bird’s beak and only the feathers moved in the gentle evening wind as it lay dead on the tiles.
Why then should the death of one little bird, for reasons that have nothing to do with me, bother me? Twenty five years ago, as the hunter boy, I might have considered myself lucky (if the bird had died as halal) and gone for a barbecue with my village friends.
members.tripod.com /maseeh1/advices7/id47.htm   (1332 words)

  
 little egret (egretta garzetta): info fact sheet, photos
Little Egrets eat a wide variety of prey from fish, molluscs and worms to insects and even small mammals and birds.
Little Egrets are the liveliest hunters among herons and egrets, with a wide variety of techniques.
Little Egrets breed in the warm-temperate areas of the Old World, as well as tropical areas like Java, Bali and Kalimantan.
www.naturia.per.sg /buloh/birds/Egretta_garzetta.htm   (761 words)

  
 Three Little Birds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The song was written on the step at the back of 56 Hope Road, where Bob loved to sit and write songs.
As spliffs were rolled, the seeds from the herb would be thrown onto the ground where birds would pick them up in their beaks.
Hence the title, the three little birds being a trio of ground doves.
www.bobmarley.com /songs/songs.cgi?threebirds   (83 words)

  
 BirdsnWays Classifieds - Classified Ads: Pet Parrots & Exotic Birds, Pets or Breeders
This little bird is a little on the shy side, but with some TLC, s/he’ll come around.
These little guys are so friendly and they love to clown around with their owners.
The bird is green with yellow on the neck and rainbow feathers on the wings.
www.birdsnways.com /birds/bpreown.htm   (8806 words)

  
 SpecWarNet - Army Little Birds
One of the prime mounts of the Army's Nightstalkers since their inception is the Hughes/McD 500 series of helicopters, known by pilots and passengers alike as "little birds." The AH/MH-6 Little Bird has been based on both the Army OH-6A Cayuse and Hughes/McDonnell-Douglas MD-500/530 series civil helicopter.
Little Birds today are used for many tasks, including movement of special operations forces, resupply in tactical situations, and close-in fire support.
The simulator is housed in a 24 foot dome that shows high-fidelity images covering the full view out the windows of a normal little bird in flight.
www.specwarnet.net /vehicles/littlebirds.htm   (745 words)

  
 Little egret - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
The little egret is a small white heron with attractive white plumes on crest, back and chest, fl legs and bill and yellow feet.
Little egrets are wetland birds with a preference for lowland shallow waters, especially along coasts and estuaries.
A recent colonist, it is most commonly found along the south coast, and on parts of the east coast.
www.rspb.org.uk /birds/guide/l/littleegret/index.asp   (253 words)

  
 CNN.com - Glass windows an 'indiscriminate' bird killer - Feb. 3, 2004
cradles a small, dead bird with chestnut-mottled wings, another victim of what he says is a largely unrecognized environmental hazard that kills birds in flight.
When glass is clear, birds see only what's on the other side; when it is reflective, birds see only reflected sky and trees.
He has monitored glass-skinned skyscrapers that he says kill 200 birds every day and suburban dwellings that he said are just as lethal when taken in total.
edition.cnn.com /2004/TECH/science/02/03/birds.clear.danger.ap   (663 words)

  
 three little birds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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It is also far from the first film to explore the experiences of children and their own personal growth, but To Kill a Mockingbird stands out because of its sheer honesty and natural performances by the child actors portraying these rich characters.
www.birdcity.co.uk /birds-aviary/three-little-birds.html   (471 words)

  
 Little Birds - Anais Nin - Penguin UK
These are my adventures in that world of prostitution' In her first volume of erotic writings, Delta of Venus, Anaïs Nin explored the nature of female sexuality.
Little Birds is broader in its scope, glimpsing in dream-like fashion the subtle or explicit means by which men and women are aroused.
Little Birds may be seen as an attempt to create the ultimate sexual encounter or as a depiction of the diversity of sexual needs; as the author herself says, 'The sexual life is usually enveloped in many layers, for all of us.
www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_9780141183404,00.html   (180 words)

  
 Three Little Birds
On the bottom of the cage were three little wild birds, shivering with cold and fright.
The pastor picked up the cage and gently carried it to the end of the alley where there was a tree and a grassy spot.
Well, that explained the empty bird cage on the pulpit, and then the pastor began to tell this story.
www.geocities.com /c_netherly/threebirds.html   (571 words)

  
 Kathleen Yearwood - Little Misery Birds
There is very little energy for this occupation, but it is an act of survival.
Well, apparantly, the european settlers decided to set nets along the hillsides in Quebec to trap the little birds so they could be eaten.
Because, apparantly, the settlers thought that there were so many wild animals and birds and fish in this country that they could slaughter them without thought for the future.
www.hrmusic.com /artists/kyart_miserybirds.html   (229 words)

  
 Taste: Flock of little birds makes elegant dinner
"Getting the birds to brown properly with such a short stay in the oven is difficult, too, especially with six in a pan.
Six little birds dripping fat onto an overheated roasting pan automatically sets off the smoke alarms.
Turn each bird over in the butter, then arrange them bone-side-down so that the halves do not touch each other.
www.sptimes.com /2005/12/21/news_pf/Taste/Flock_of_little_birds.shtml   (1046 words)

  
 Little Birds, by Anaïs Nin
So he just let them watch the birds and be amused by their colored beaks and antics and odd cries.
At the appointment hour they arrived to watch the birds, four little girls of all sizes--one with long blond hair, another with curls, the third plump and languid and the fourth slender and shy, with big eyes.
It usually took place at dawn, when no one was about, in a little square near the prison of the Sante, where the guillotine had stood at the time of the Revolution.
www.geocities.com /arsenio_grilo/little_birds_1.html   (5099 words)

  
 COBRA Little Birds - A GIJOEHQ Exclusive!
Previously I considered them little more than souped up newscopters, but it's become obvious to me now, that these cool little aircraft are quick, powerful, and downright dangerous with the right equipment.
The blue of this new Little Bird is a very cool and very COBRA-like, although it could stand to be a little bit darker.
The blue is a little bit "Baby blue-ish" but regardless of this fact, it looks great as a COBRA helicopter for Viper deployment or quick airborne assaults.
www.generalsjoes.com /reviews/PTE/joehqlittlebirds.html   (930 words)

  
 Three little birds in a row - A poem by Stephen Crane - American Poems
Three little birds in a row Sat musing.
They were very curious, Those three little birds in a row.
The poem, Three little birds in a row, has received 5 comments.
www.americanpoems.com /poets/stephencrane/11806   (139 words)

  
 Birds
As the birds are warbling greetings to the spring that's come again.
The child or children who have a red bird places the bird on the tree and sings "Tweet Tweet." Repeat for each color.
The red bird came to join them and then there were three.
stepbystepcc.com /animals/birds.html   (808 words)

  
 Little Birds, Nin Anais - ISBN 0141183403 - ELX.com.au (Australia)
Delta of Venus and Little Birds, Anais Nin's bestselling volumes of erotica, contain striking revelations of a woman's sexuality and inner life.
In Little Birds, each of the thirteen short stories captures a moment of sexual awakening, recognition or fulfilment, and reveals the subtle or explicit means by which men and women are aroused.
Lust, obsession, fantasy and desire emerge as part of the human condition, as pure or as complex as any other of its aspects.
www.everythinglinux.com.au /item/0141183403?elx=b5e7d4cb575a29b047b3044f65544016   (96 words)

  
 Special Operations.Com
The Army's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment's aircraft are descendants of the Army's original OH-6 which was used as a light scout and utility helicopter in the Vietnam War.
Although the Army's official name for the H-6 is "Cayuse" (named after an Indian tribe that lived in the Oregon Territory), the aircraft is almost universally known as the Little Bird.
The Special operations history of the Little Bird dates back to the early 1980s, when after the failed rescue attempt in Iran in 1980, the US Army began to test and experiment with airborne special operations.
www.specialoperations.com /Aviation/Little_Birds/default2.html   (678 words)

  
 Little Birds
These little songbirds are hand carved, and the glass-smooth facets left by the knife blade impart an instantly recognizable handmade look.
You'll notice that the standing birds are mounted on a brass pin and that the hanging one is fitted with an all but invisible monofilament loop.@US$20
These guys will gobble down everything in the bird feeders given a chance...sharing is not exactly part of their nature...but they are lovely to look at.
www.duck-trap.com /littlebirds.html   (329 words)

  
 The little birds
Now she is friendly and curious,but thanks to Posy building her a 'castle' of pillows she is no longerthe fear-free little thing she was.
Pansy is not as social as Julie but she is still a sweet little bird.She is a delicate little thing.
She can be held but she does not enjoyit as much as the other birds.
www.europa.com /~qzanny/littlebirds.htm   (641 words)

  
 My Little Birds - Birds
Unfortunately Tracy had to give up living in the flight with the rest of the birds after he began to bite the feet of some of the others in there.
These two birds are buddies and have attempted unsuccessfully to breed a few times.
He is a very sweet quiet little bird, who takes every opportunity to fly out the door to the flight whenever I have it open to put in food and water.
www.bellaonline.com /articles/art2310.asp   (458 words)

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