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	f02 "Terror" birds
		Birds were of modern appearance throughout the 62 million years of the Cenozoic.
		However, in addition to the variety with which we are familiar were a group of flightless, flesh-eating "terror" birds.
		The "terror" birds are extinct now but extant are two small related species, the red-legged seriema (Cariama cristata) and the fl-legged, or Burmeister's, seriema (Chunga burmeisteri).
	geowords.com /histbooknetscape/f02.htm (294 words)

	The Life of Birds \| Evolution
		Birds have adapted so well to the demands of and trials set by our planet that Sir David Attenborough believes they may be the most successful creatures on earth, more successful even than insects.
		The dodo is the tragic symbol of bird extermination.
		But many extraordinary birds still live only in New Zealand, including the strange, nocturnal kiwi, and the heaviest parrot in the world, the flightless kakapo, which is itself on the brink of extinction.
	www.pbs.org /lifeofbirds/evolution (3063 words)

	h17 The descent of birds
		For example, Hawaiian Island bird arrivals beginning 5 million years ago have evolved to new species with beaks specialized to feed on various flowers and seeds but their bodies have changed so little that the various pioneer-bird stocks are easy to identify.
		Living birds are taxonomically split into neognathes (modern birds) that have a palate more derived than in palaeognathes—which primitive skull structure persists as a character of ratites (flightless birds from the Southern Hemisphere) and tinamous (their flighted sister taxa).
		The fossil birds known from the Early Cretaceous (127 -144 Ma) are small-sized and have the specialized perching feet of arboreal birds.
	geowords.com /histbooknetscape/h17.htm (1688 words)

	Bird problems such as pigeons or geese, BIRD -X offers products to repel birds.
		Bird problems, he is convinced, have no place in an airplane hangar.
		About then, Brad saw an advertisement for an ultrasonic UET-120 bird repeller device and for a bird-scaring vinyl balloon called "Terror-Eyes bird repeller," both sold by a Chicago company, Bird-X. "We sent in the reply card for their literature and decided it wouldn't hurt to try it.
		Brad first used the ultrasonic bird repeller in the main hangar along with Terror-Eyes bird repeller to discourage any problem birds from returning; then he moved the ultrasonic bird repeller to the smaller hangar to rid his living quarters of pesky pigeons.
	www.bird-x.com /casestudies/trust.html (1012 words)

	Science Terror-Bird Blogging \| Unscrewing The Inscrutable
		Birds are vertebrates of course and are further classified in the class called Aves.
		The term Terror Bird is not a precise taxon and includes a wide variety of birds.
		And it may well be that flying birds, which are believed to have evolved from feathered dinos called Maniraptors, occasionally went the reverse evolutionary route and became flightless birds.
	brentrasmussen.com /log/node/197 (2022 words)

	andalsculpt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This animal belongs to a family of birds known as the Phorusrachids,a group of Cenozoic aves that grew to massive proportions.
		Another larger Terror Bird, as they have come to be called, was found in North America.
		Terror birds such as Andalgalornis went extinct shortly after the Panamanian land bridge linked North and South America 2.5 million years ago.
	www.paleozone.homestead.com /andalsculpt.html (262 words)

	Pojo's Magic The Gathering Card of the Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Terror was the cheap removal spell that defined the rest of removal spells.
		Terror may be severely weakened right now, but its still very good in limited, and a perfectly acceptable casual play kill spell.
		Terror, while once decent, is now almost useless because of the vast amounts of artifact creatures running around.
	www.pojo.com /Magic/COTD/Aug2004/19a.html (650 words)

	Terror Birds: Predators With a Kung Fu Kick? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Some of the species that terror birds may have preyed on were heavily armored.
		To estimate the maximum running speeds of three species of terror bird, Blanco and paleontologist colleague Washington W. Jones used mathematics to model the relationship between bone stress and speed.
		Alvarenga, the Brazilian terror bird expert, who was not involved in the study, says he is skeptical of the study's results.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2005/08/0801_050801_terrorbirds_2.html (880 words)

	Bird Tips and News cenozoic terror birds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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	www.bird-tips.info /cenozoic-terror-birds.htm (229 words)

	The CHUD.COM Message Boards - Excerpt from Chap XIX, Simmons' "Ilium"
		Each bird was more than nine feet tall, with short white feathers on their muscular bodies, fl feathers on their vestigial wings, and powerful legs as thick as Ada's torso.
		The Terror Bird's head snapped high, the yellow eyes blinked at the impertinence, and the huge predator changed direction and kicked forward toward Harman, who skidded in the dirt, said "Shit!" in a high voice, and scrambled back the way he had come.
		Odysseus walked to the nearest bird, cut off its huge head, and ran his skinning knife down the length of its chest, peeling flesh and skin and feathers back as easily as someone would help a lady remove her coat.
	www.chud.com /forums/showthread.php?t=43130 (2189 words)

	Birds Clipart ETC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Love birds Love birds are the smallest of this group; their plumage varies in shades according to the climates.
		Nightingale Nightingale, a bird famous on account of its brilliant song, which for quality and variety is not exceeded by that of any other bird.
		Oven bird The ovenbird is a wood-warabler, spends most of its time on the ground or in undergrowth.
	etc.usf.edu /clipart/galleries/Animals/birds_i-q.htm (1414 words)

	For bird control problems such as pigeons or geese, BIRD -X offers products to repel birds. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bird droppings on pallets in the loading area are in violation of the Food and Drug Association health codes.
		Bird droppings are often ignored as a serious health hazard but this material is frequently the home to two fungi called histoplasmosis and cryptococcus.
		Hamano stated that the Terror-Eyes units caused two changes: the number of birds was reduced drastically and the birds' behavior was different.
	www.pestbirdscare.com /casestudies/bye1.html (1445 words)

	G.R. Gray, New Zealand Birds, Zoology of the Voyage of the HMS Erebus and Terror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		G.R. Gray, New Zealand Birds, Zoology of the Voyage of the HMS Erebus and Terror
		Plate 10, from the Zoology of the Voyage of HMZ Erebus and Terror, Birds of New Zealand, Gray, G.R. and Sharpe, R. Bowdler, 1846 -1875.
		from the Zoology of the Voyage of HMZ Erebus and Terror, Birds of New Zealand, Gray, G.R. and Sharpe, R. Bowdler, 1846 -1875.
	www.nzbirds.com /Gray.html (347 words)

	The Yale Herald - Jan 23, 2004 - 'For the Birds' not for the weak of heart, flightly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		More socio-political messages are to be found in the works of Michael Oatman, which include birds brandishing all sorts of weaponry (for hunting and otherwise) or wearing masks of lions, deers, and bears for disguise—a warning to over-zealous and privacy-invading birders, perhaps.
		Fortunately, not everything is this gloomy—the birds scattered along the floor aren't carcasses held up by wire leg-braces, as initially supposed, but rather three-dimensional cloth-and-trash collages.
		The show is completed with a response to that oft-used phrase, "a little bird told me." Jeffrey Benjamin took it to heart in his mobile "We Won't Rest Until Everybody Knows What Happened," reminding the viewers that birds carry a definite symbolic position in society, and not only for the birders.
	www.yaleherald.com /article-p.php?Article=2822 (780 words)

	The Terror Trap: The Birds
		Essentially employing thousands of real trained birds, intermixed with fake birds, Hitchcock was able to create the illusion of them massing and attacking the quiet (but not entirely innocent) community of Bodega Bay.The result was a box-office smash and his last truly classic film.
		Eyeing each other like ravenous birds prepared to fight, Melanie manages to get the name of the child and is able to prepare a note with her gift.
		Coupled with the strange bird attacks and their increasing violence, Lydia is on the verge of collapse.
	www.terrortrap.com /creaturefeatures/birds (1465 words)

	Tippi Hedren
		From Hitchcock and Chaplin to Ed Wood, Jr., and from drama and terror to droll comedy, the career of actress Tippi Hedren has been meteoric, and eclectic.
		The former New York fashion model was making her debut as an actress in a starring role in The Birds, and such high praise from the enigmatic master of cinema shock and suspense was rare indeed.
		Birds, the movie, which premiered at The Cannes Film Festival, was a sensation earning over $11,000,000 in the first few months, and is now a classic.
	www.shambala.org /tippi.htm (1093 words)

	Air Superiority, Falconry, Pest Bird Control, Raptor Propagation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The fear a falcon instills in other birds is often enough to make them vacate an area, he says, although a scrape of the bird's powerful talons is further inducement.
		All that is needed is for the birds to see the dive-bombing, swooping falcons, and the birds scatter.
		All authorities agree that the Barn Owl is one of our most useful birds of prey as their diet consists almost entirely of various species of rodent.
	www.clarksburgwinegrapes.com /owl_falconry/falconry_news_page_1.html (2053 words)

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		These were the symptoms of terror in 1872, as Charles Darwin described them in The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, More than a century later, though the world is vastly different, terror hasn't changed.
		Birds, cats, dogs, and people, when they are frightened, continue to tremble, break out in cold sweats, and faint dead away.
		She was terrified, just as a cat or a might be, yet her fear had no object or at best a wholly imaginary c one What frightened her was not so much the morphine even the needle as a vision that only she could see, the spectacle body rotting away.
	home.gwu.edu /~klarsen/fear.html (5628 words)

	BirdForum - Ninja castaways bring terrapin terror to birds..... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A colony of red-eared terrapins has killed so many wild birds at a nature reserve in Derbyshire that conservationists have been forced to employ a trapper to catch the creatures and deport them to Tuscany.
		The unwanted pets, relics of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon craze that gripped children in the 1980s, have ravaged the aquatic bird population at the Foremark reservoir and nature reserve.
		Rangers at the reserve were baffled by a mysterious plunge of nearly 90 per cent in the breeding bird population in the last year.
	www.birdforum.net /printthread.php?t=1127 (199 words)

	8 Beyond Subjectivity: The Birds - Hitchcock's Sound Track
		The characters may or may not have escaped the birds at the end of the film, but the audience is left behind, in a world where the birds, which represent any terrifying, uncontrollable forces, have prevailed.
		To introduce a bird visually without an attack is to tease the audience with a red herring, and so Hitchcock cannot manipulate the images as freely for suspense as he does the sound track.
		Although we see birds during the titles (the titles, as abstracted as the sound track, are presented as fragments that converge and then disintegrate), we do not see a truck until their close, when a van roars by shortly after a trolley car, on a busy San Francisco street where Melanie is walking.
	www.zx.nu /ss/chapter8.htm (3998 words)

	Birds Clipart ETC
		Falcon Falcons are a group of birds of prey that vary in size from the falconet to the gyrefalcon.
		Gallinule These birds are weak fliers, preferring to hide from predators.
		Hornbill The hornbill family are remarkable for the very large size of the beak, and the large protuberance that sits atop it.
	etc.usf.edu /clipart/galleries/Animals/birds_d-h.htm (1374 words)

	ABC - Walking with Beasts - Phorusrhacos General Evidence
		The first Terror Birds date back to the Messel shales, used to reconstruct the Eocene world of program 1.
		Bird fossils are always very rare because they have such lightly built, hollow bones.
		Although the rest of the wing is missing, claws on birds' wings are not unheard of, and so we can guess how it would have looked.
	www.abc.net.au /beasts/evidence/prog5/page6.htm (185 words)

	Scare your bird problems with visual scare devices by Bird-X.
		According to Armstrong, the quantity of birds was not his main problem.
		The damage caused by these birds to the Xerox facility was the main problem.
		For Dave Smith, manager of manufacturing engineering at Ontic Engineering, birds were ruining the 150,000 square foot roof of his company warehouse and offices housed in a two story building in North Hollywood, California.
	www.bird-x.com /casestudies/bye2.html (1557 words)

	Identifying birds - CJS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		If birds are members of theropods (3-4), the presence of digit IV in Archaeopteryx and adult birds is doubtful.
		Shubin (6) proposed that the primary axis in birds may actually represent digit III because of developmentalstrong evidence for perturbation of the primary axis in birds.
		Very susceptible birds may be found suddenly dead, but the classical clinicallaboratory, plus the fact that in mild cases or carrier birds, the organism is not passed out in the droppings all theDNA probes has proven to be the most effective method of identifying positively infected birds.
	www.cat-jewelry-superstore.com /birds/identifying-birds.html (519 words)

	The Acorn » Arab sheikhs, endangered birds and terror financing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hunting this bird is illegal in Pakistan for most parts, unless of course, you are one of the Pakistani government’s honoured guests and contribute to its goal of poverty alleviation and infrastructure development in the underdeveloped hunting regions.
		For it was the Foreign Ministry that awarded dozens of special permits to Arab dignitaries to hunt the bird each year, despite the fact that Pakistanis have been prohibited from killing the houbara since 1972.
		Many Pakistanis are puzzled by the royal hunts, and can’t really explain why, with the arrival of the houbara, scores of Middle Eastern potentates — Presidents, ambassadors, ministers, generals, governors — descend upon their country in fleets of private plans.
	opinion.paifamily.com /index.php?p=950 (952 words)

	The Observer \| Focus \| Chaos: how war on terror became a political dogfight
		We now accept that, instead, their lordships found that the act was incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights, and that their declaration of incompatibility does not affect the validity of the act or anything done under it.
		For Labour, it is clear that the war on terror and the war against the Tories have become indistinguishable.
		The bill therefore became a way to kill two terror birds with one legislative stone: 'control orders' could be tailored to deal with foreign terror suspects due for release and the emerging threat of homegrown Islamic terrorism.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /focus/story/0,6903,1436421,00.html (2259 words)

	Watching 'Birds': Happy Hitchcock Films Terror-Ridden Tale
		His vehicle for avicular terror is "The Birds," a novella by Daphne Du Maurier adapted by Evan Hunter ("The Blackboard Jungle"), which he is filming at this tiny inlet on the Pacific Coast about sixty miles north of San Francisco.
		Among the buildings in Bodega Bay being used for "The Birds" are a 100-year-old school, a similarly aged Roman Catholic church and a house built by colonizing Russians almost 150 years ago.
		Much more frightening to the children than the birds was a huge camera truck rolling rapidly down the hill on their heels.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/040162hitch-birds-making.html (906 words)

	The Cryptid Zoo: Moas and Other Giant Flightless Birds
		South America had birds of this type, but they are thought to have become extinct when the land bridge formed to North America and predators such as the cougar and coyote gradually replaced them.
		Several smaller versions of the elephant bird are known to have lived on mainland Africa and some other islands in the general vicinity of Africa, but these are thought to have died out much earlier.
		After their discovery, elephant birds were used as the official explanation for a different giant bird that still remains mythical, the roc.
	www.newanimal.org /moas.htm (942 words)

	bird control products that repel birds and pests effectively
		Made of brilliantly colored heavy duty vinyl; scientifically designed from extensive experience and research on predator and bird behavior.
		Locate Terror-Eyes close to the roosting birds, with good line of sight to the infested areas.
		To prevent birds becoming used to Terror-Eyes, occasionally relocate units.
	izola.co.uk /birds/products/terror.html (249 words)

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