This fracturing allows birds of the forest edge, such as cowbirds and blue jays, to parasitize and prey upon the thrushes. |
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We cannot recall ever having such large families of cardinals, downy and hairy woodpeckers, English sparrows, blue jays, titmice and chickadees. |
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During summer and autumn, jays routinely make hundreds of food caches per day, placing each saliva-coated bolus in a separate arboreal site. |
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Deb, with this cold weather we have blue and Canada jays along with our chickadees, nuthatches, and a group of finches of some kind. |
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At first, the Steller's jays availed themselves of the birdseed and unshelled peanuts on the grass, as well as a few kernels from the tray. |
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Brightly plumaged, these jays range just north of the Mexican border, in areas such as Hidalgo County, Texas, home of sizable rattlers. |
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Marmots, squirrels, chipmunks and the Canada jays are all frequent visitors at the many campsites. |
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Disturbance after eggs are laid provides opportunities for predation by carrion crows, jays, kestrels, magpies, foxes and mink. |
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West Nile virus infects many different bird species, but it appears to be lethal to crows, jays, and hawks. |
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In my yard, jays and grosbeaks entertain me on one side of the house and goldfinches, chickadees, and nuthatches feed in peace on the other. |
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We ate below the ledges, and Canada jays fluttered down from low branches to eat bits of cracker out of our hands. |
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Many of the more northern birds, including three-toed woodpeckers and Canada jays, are found in the area. |
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I've got flocks of monotone peeping nuthatches in the spruce trees, along with the chickadees, blue jays and four Canada jays. |
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You will see bald eagles, maybe a peregrine falcon, Canada jays, Clarks nutcrackers and other northern birds. |
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If you are in a really remote place, you may notice a pair of Canada jays is following you in the trees, looking for a handout. |
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A number of jays live in family groups, but sharing of cached food has not been demonstrated. |
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Crows belong to the family of corvids, which also includes rooks, jays, ravens and jackdaws. |
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Put bluntly, these birds, which include crows, ravens, magpies, and jays, can be real jerks. |
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Well-adapted to urban environments, grackles, crows, ravens, blackbirds, and jays thrive everywhere we do. |
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From green jays to bobcats to indigo snakes, the Brush Country is a special place. |
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I tried setting out a potpourri of mixed birdseed, almonds, raisins, and even pieces of cornbread for the jays. |
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Among the visitors were a ground squirrel, cotton rats, cardinals, and a trio of green jays. |
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The jays conduct a rousing reveille of check check check to awaken me at dawn, eliminating the need for mechanical alarm clocks. |
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American kestrels, smallest of North America's falcons, migrate at about the same time as the jays and flickers. |
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I have this week watched starlings, jays and woodpigeons gorging themselves on rowan berries. |
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Some birds, like scrub jays, are accomplished thieves who know how to stash their ill-gotten food to avoid it being stolen back again. |
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Tube feeders come in many sizes and attract jays, cardinals, finches, chickadees, titmice and others. |
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Next on the scene are the striking and regal Steller's jays with their ebony crested heads and shoulders melding to indigo. |
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In learning to escape the vigilance of crows, birds also avoid the attention of some other predators, such as jays and magpies. |
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There was the occasional chatter of magpies or jays, and once the bobbing flight of a greater spotted woodpecker. |
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The campus, which was once a barren patch of land, was converted into a haven for magpies and robins and blue jays in a short span of 30 years. |
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His research included classic works on quail, bushtits, Mexican and South American thrushes, New World jays, and others. |
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The corvids of North America consist of one species of jackdaw, four crows, two ravens, one nutcracker, two magpies, and ten species of jays. |
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I even threw some tortilla chips on the ground, and the jays gathered up the chips as rapidly as they did the peanuts. |
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I leave you with one of the best passages of a description of a flock of blue jays mobbing a screech owl. |
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There were a few Steller's jays visiting the feeders, along with an acorn woodpecker and a white-breasted nuthatch. |
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Many species of birds live here, including chickadees, hummingbirds, grey jays, red-tailed hawks, ptarmigan and golden eagles. |
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In late fall, there are red-shafted flickers, hairy woodpeckers, finches, chickadees, nuthatches, and, of course, jays. |
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Many campgrounds support a flock of habituated gray jays, as campers readily feed the birds. |
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Any of the above, as well as weasels, lemmings, some hawks, ravens, Canada jays, and gulls will scavenge caribou carcasses. |
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Magpies, Canada jays, chickadees, woodpeckers, and so many other birds can be seen and heard throughout the Wilderness. |
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Siberian jays are sexually monomorphic with a substantial overlap in size between sexes. |
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Closing my eyes to better appreciate the feelings crashing through me, I found that I understood the blue jays, robins, sparrows, and finches. |
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Blue jays prefer living in evergreen forests, but they can also be found in farmlands, groves, and suburbs. |
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Use a feeder that holds sunflower seeds to draw cardinals, towhees and blue jays. |
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At the lake we fed the grey jays, which sat on our skis and even ate out of Paul's hand. |
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Central Park is rife with robins, great with grackles, and burgeoning with blue jays. |
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I see evidence of nesting by fox squirrels, blue jays, American robins, and Baltimore orioles. |
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One of Clayton's later experiments with the resourceful jays involved observing how they behaved when stashing food in caches that might be robbed by other birds. |
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There are 113 members of the avian family called Corvidae, or corvids, which includes crows, jackdaws, rooks, ravens, as well as jays, nutcrackers and magpies. |
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Such avian predators as European jays and great-spotted woodpeckers cannot open the nest-boxes at the study area, whereas martens easily enter nest-boxes by removing the top. |
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Blue jays are among the most colourful and intelligent back yard visitors. |
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I know blue jays can be trained to talk and mimic just about any bird, but I had only heard them mimic red-shouldered hawks and broad-winged hawks in the wild before. |
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A corner devoted to raspberries, blueberries and blackberries brings in wrens, blue jays and towhees, and also attracts Maya and Delia for daily pilgrimages. |
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Like jays and crows, their cousins, magpies are mischievous and bold. |
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The pair compared data from studies covering 18 different species, including dwarf mongooses, meerkats, Florida scrub jays, western bluebirds, and Australian magpies. |
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Pigeons are predominant, but, as you explore, you see sparrows and bluebirds and flickers and blue jays and wrens and kestrels and starlings and robins. |
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Omnivorous, mainly vegetarians in the winter, jays eat many kinds of nuts and seeds, including acorns, beechnuts, grain, berries, and small fruit. |
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But periods of high heat and drought send such common urban-dwelling species as crows, blue jays and robins out of the city in search of fresh water. |
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This can be very threatening to potential predators and often assures that the colony will be left alone, particularly by smaller predators such as blue jays or grackles. |
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In fact, over the next hour, the Mexican jays collected any and all of the unshelled peanuts that I placed for them on the hopper feeder or threw out for them on the ground. |
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While we don't have tall trees, our neighbors do, and the firs and oaks that surround our property drop acorns and provide homes for jays, woodpeckers, robins and sparrows. |
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Cedar waxwings, crows, finches, flycatchers, grosbeaks, grouse, jays, mockingbirds, pheasants, thrushes, vireos, and woodpeckers feed on their fruits. |
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Birds are quite prevalent with nighthawks, woodpeckers, Canada jays, belted kingfishers, western tanagers and oregon junkos being the most common. |
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The Gunflint Trail bird feeders are still enjoying heavy use, being frequented most often by Canada jays, hairy and downy woodpeckers, and black-capped and boreal chickadees. |
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The eagles are courting, the crows building nests, the Steller's jays have come back to sit and fling insults and we can see baby salmon in the shallows of the river. |
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In areas like savannas, where the scrub jays are in close proximity to suburban habitats, house cats are important predators of many bird species as well as herpetofauna. |
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Blue jays and crows rob smaller birds' nests, often those of robins and catbirds, of both eggs and young, while hawks may steal the same from the crows and jays! |
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The virus is primarily a disease of wild birds, particularly crows, blue jays, and birds of prey, and is transmitted by mosquitoes to horses and humans. |
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Our experiment explores the generality of these results by asking whether blue jays choose short-term consequences in equivalent patch and self-control situations. |
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If jays, grackles, and other large birds are crowding out smaller birds, switch to a feeder that discriminates, or blocks, them, but not the smaller, more desirable birds. |
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The Corvidae family of birds such as crows, blue and grey jays, ravens and magpies are particularly susceptible to illness and death from West Nile Virus. |
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She's had the best luck attracting seed-feeding birds, such as finches, grosbeaks, jays and nuthatches, by using common black oil sunflower seeds. |
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Other animals, such as squirrels or jays, will either split the shell completely in half or make a jagged hole in it. |
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One of the area's favorite parks, full of Florida scrub jays, gopher tortoise, gopher frogs and indigo snakes. |
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Does niche divergence accompany allopatric divergence in Aphelocoma jays as predicted under ecological speciation? |
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Bird life in the forests of the central region includes resplendent quetzals, goldfinches, hummingbirds, jays and toucanets. |
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Some of the local birds might include the turkey vulture, crows, scrub jays, red-tailed hawks, the acorn woodpecker or the phainopepla. |
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The seeds are commonly eaten by birds, such as grouse, crossbills, jays, nuthatches, siskins, woodpeckers, and by squirrels. |
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From jays and titmice to nuthatches and chickadees, many backyard birds love peanuts, a high-calorie, fat-rich food. |
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Dad had placed a cob of corn on a stump for the jays, who bickered over it non-stop. |
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The two jays that frequent Western gardens are the scrub jay and the Steller's jay. |
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Species hardest hit appear to be blue jays, American crows, black-billed magpies, tufted tit-mice, and black-capped and Carolina chickadees. |
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When crows, jays, or kingbirds spot a hawk, they often mob it because they don't want it around. |
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Highest mortalities are seen in the corvid family, which include jays, magpies and crows. |
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The available information suggests that, among birds, the most important dispersers are scrub jays, Steller's jays, pinyon jays, and Clark's nutcrackers. |
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In the thief-ridden world of western scrub jays, a bird storing food takes note of any other jay that watches it and later defends the hoard accordingly, says a new study. |
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The squirrels hate him anyway, on account of his digging out their pine nut caches, and the magpies and jays and camp robbers will alway scold him as long as he is in sight. |
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And second, though there were all kinds of scavengers in the area, ranging from black bears down to Canada jays, the only thing feeding on this fellow were maggots. |
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Scores of bird species range from great, soaring birds of prey to tiny hummingbirds with blue jays and goldfinches and egrets and wild turkeys and the great horned owl. |
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Cardinals and blue jays also have crests, but no one knows whether those feathered cowlicks arise thanks to changes in the same gene as in pigeons. |
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The broad-leafed areas provide homes for woodpeckers, nuthatches, whitethroats and jays while the rare heath-land areas are ideal for the nightjar, woodlarks and buzzards. |
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