Bird vocalization

Corvus brachyrhynchos The American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) is a large bird found throughout the United States and parts of North America. All species are “two-legged, thick-necked birds with heavy, straight bills” (Vuilleumier 465). The American Crow is the largest crow in North America and is most well known for its call. Their caw is “lower than other subspecies” (465). Distribution of the American Crow differs from season to season. In the summer during breeding season, they can travel as

A bird flies wildly about, twisting and diving. It is panicked, trying to escape the boy on the ground below, who hurls small, painful missiles at it from a slingshot. The creature of the air is a splendid sight; the wings are as if covered in jade paint and the tips dipped in a ferocious scarlet. The breast is a majestic solid blue, its throat a sulphur yellow. And the head and the tail both are a livid, dark purple: beautiful. Why shoot such a magnificent creature? This winged animal that soars

The Black Panther breathes just like the humans. Panthers use their lungs to breathe in and out. The breathing starts at the nose and their mouth. It then, travels down to the back of their throat, into the trachea. The trachea is a long tube in the panther’s neck that goes all the way through their chest, that carries air out and into their lungs. After that, the trachea divides into smaller passages called bronchial tubes. Bronchial tubes, are the tubes that carry air into the lungs of the panthers

Bullies and Songsters What bird is that singing so sweetly, so loudly, and for SO long in the middle of the night? If you're in North America, most likely it is the Northern Mockingbird, (Mimus polyglottos). This bird, whose Latin name means "many-tongued mimic," may sing the songs of up to two hundred other birds but it also may be the bully of your backyard, chasing all the other birds away. The Northern Mockingbird is a long-tailed and somewhat short-winged bird, will a dark strong but short

and giggled at the tiny, yellow bird brushing past her head. Misty snarled and whipped herself around to smack the bird with all the power she managed in the freezing weather. Manda gasped and hurried over to the bird. “Why’d you do that?” she asked with fake tears in her voice. Misty snarled and threw the injured bird hard on the ground. The bus made a deafening screech sound as it pulled down the driveway. Together the girls made a run without hesitation as the bird took its last breath before disappearing

now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.” The use of birds have been used as different symbols in literature has been prevalent during our readings, some literature I would like to emphasis on is the film Apocalypse Now directed by Francis Ford Coppola, The Birds directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, The Birds Daphne du Maurier, the musical

In chapter 17, Spring, Thoreau is describing the extravagant transformation in the woods as the seasons go from winter to spring. He mainly focuses on the pond at the beginning of this chapter and then goes on to talk about the transformation of the sand, trees, and animals. He describes these transformations as a total change of nature and as the nature changes so does Thoreau. In fact, the pond is a representation of Thoreau's self so as it is going through a “rebirth” by thawing his spirit is

The forest detailed in the medieval rhymes of Robin Hood was written in such a way that the perception of the forest each reader will gather differs. Each tale of Robin Hood details the Forest of Sherwood in different forms, meaning that each rhyme has to be examined to understand the different moods the forest represents within the tale. While each rhyme depicts the forest in a different way they always emphasize the beauty, which is often impressed upon the reader through authors writing of the

But this just makes the bird mad and he swears more than ever. Then the guy gets mad and says, "OK for you!" and locks the bird in a kitchen cabinet. This really aggravates the bird and he claws and scratches, and when the guy finally lets him out, the bird cuts loose with a stream of invective that would make a veteran sailor blush. At that point, the guy is so mad that he throws the bird into the freezer. For the first few seconds there is a terrible din. The bird kicks and claws and thrashes

Compare and Contrast In September of 1998,a tragic oil spill happened near Phillip Island Nature Park in Australia,a penguin breeding ground site.The penguins who dove into the water became covered in thick,slimy oil.Another oil spill happened in June of 2000,but this time close to and island in the South Atlantic Ocean,near the largest breeding ground for African Penguins,and the same thing happened.The articles ‘The Seabird Chronicle’ and ‘The Amazing Penguin Rescue’ tell about these two tragic