"There was something about that bird, " says vice president of franchising Ville "Bird Whisperer" Heijari.
The bird conservation charity invented the competition to encourage people to celebrate the island's rich bird life.
The liver, in the center of the bird's body, stores fat the bird traditionally uses on long migratory flights.
The caged bird sings of freedom, but the freed bird sings of dreams.
The outgoing prime minister, Lester Bird, and his brother, the agriculture minister, Vere Bird junior, both lost their seats.
The funeral of David Bird took place earlier, but Mary Bird, 87, was in hospital and "too frail" to attend.
Rinsing the bird under the tap actually "splashes" any bacteria on the bird onto nearby taps, kitchen surfaces and foods.
More than 500 mourners, including the twins' older brother Brian Bird, and Derrick Bird's elder son Graeme, 28, attended the funeral.
He crawls away as Bird comes towards him with a weapon raised, before Bird gets back into his car and drives away.
Bird watchers on the Isle of Man recorded sightings of more than 100 bird species during a week-long competition run by Manx BirdLife.
He reminded Hadley of a chattering bird, a large endearingly gawky bird like an ostrich, long-legged, long-necked, with a beaky face, quick-darting inquisitive eyes.
Mr Bird's father, Vere Bird, dominated local politics, apart from one five-year break, from 1951 to 1994, when his son took over the family firm.
After studying the Northumberland bird's plumage on hours of videotape and a number of photographs, experts decided the bird was less than one year old.
Now that translates rather amusingly, Richard III is rhyming slang for bird, bird is prison slang for length of sentence - what it means is don't do your sentence twice over.
Aside from the seven bird species that are now saved from extinction, over 100 families in Prek Toal, including former bird collectors, are benefiting from the various activities in the project.
Globally, the main threats facing bird populations continued to be agriculture, deforestation and invasive species, Mr Bird explained, adding that there was no sign of the threats disappearing in the near future.
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) said that as well as the house sparrow, the starling was another familiar garden bird to feature on the BAP list of 59 bird species.
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Among the report's conclusions was that without a comprehensive and aggressive bird management programme incorporating careful and considered airport design, appropriate habitat management and active bird control, an airport could not operate safely at Cliffe.
The researchers wanted to observe the impact on New Zealand gloxinia of these disappearing bird populations and so compared the situation on the mainland with that of three nearby island bird sanctuaries where the birds remain abundant.
He first made his living as a kangaroo shooter in outback Queensland where he learned about and fell in love with emus, Australia's largest native bird and the second largest bird in the world after the ostrich.
Among Palawan's deep trove of wildlife, the most precious to the local economy, Gustillo explains, is the swiftlet, a small darting bird whose nests, built largely of its own spittle, are the essential ingredient in bird's nest soup.
"Given that bats are far more susceptible to barotrauma than birds, and that bat fatalities at wind turbines far outnumber bird fatalities at most sites, wildlife fatalities at wind turbines are now a bat issue, not a bird issue, " said Ms Baerwald.
Greg Budney, audio curator at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library, a renowned collection of recorded bird song, says he has had requests to use the collection for medical purposes but hasn't heard of bird song being used to fight crime.
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But with Johnson and Bird very much known quantities upon reaching the NBA, and with each having won a championship ring (Johnson in 1980, Bird in 1981) in their first two years, soon enough the NBA was all over prime time network television.
Johnson and Bird were iconic figures throughout the 1980s, when they combined to win eight NBA titles (Johnson with the Los Angeles Lakers, Bird with the Boston Celtics) and resuscitated a league that had become more or less background noise by the end of the '70s.
Tom Bird, the Globe to Globe festival director, spent months searching the world for Shakespeare performers.
It is also home to around 16, 000 bird species, double the number in all Europe.
As of 5 September, just one bird had been brought in for weighing at the Saeheimar aquarium.
Nick DeCarlo owns a 2, 000-acre bird-hunting preserve in Wiggins, on the prairie northeast of Denver.
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