For two years now, that basic, terrestrial formula was enough to make Angry Birds the de facto king of mobile gaming, and a stand-in for a casual gaming revolution that was gripping phone users and proving a full-fledged commercial phenomenon.
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It has been known for years that in a range of animals from insects to birds the males increase the quality and quantity of the sperm they ejaculate when those sperm are likely to find themselves in competition with sperm from another male.
"Breeders tell us that not all of their birds come back from every race, and so these are the birds with the greatest potential to escape and contribute to the free-living population, " Dr Shapiro said.
Long before you can see the birds along the river, you can hear them.
Like the birds in the Alfred Hitchcock classic, maybe this urinal had just had enough.
"They say even the birds left the area, " General Hayat said during the tour of South Waziristan.
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It sounds as if when her parents told her about the birds and the bees, they never got to the mammals.
It underscores that even after 150 years of scientific study we still do not know all the birds in the Indo-Malayan region.
Until this study, very little was known about where puffins went during the winter as the birds spent the entire time at sea.
And beyond that, trying to keep a connection with the rest of life, too -- the birds, the bees, the rocks, things like that.
Preliminary reports ruled out that seismic sound waves created by oil exploration in that stretch of sea could have killed the birds, the environment ministry said.
"I really think that first conversation about the birds and the bees opened the door for her to feel that she can come talk to me about anything, " says Ms. Estes.
Steve Sinkevich, a senior biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service who monitors the nests at Breezy Point, said the agency, the parks service and the cooperative collaborate to protect the birds with the least amount of recreational interference.
He was like his father: his father also got angry whenever he went out hunting, waging war on the birds and the beasts as if they were ferocious enemies, expending every last bit of malice in his heart while he was in the forest, and then returning home a kind, sensitive family man.
Every year millions of water birds arrive from the Arctic to UK coasts, but until now scientists remained largely in the dark about how these birds respond to the bright lights of coastal cities and industry.
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While it doesn't affect birds that feed at sea, which is the vast majority of birds around the island, it could harm those that feed on land, such as ducks, gulls and skuas.
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It is possible that the composition of the radionuclides are proving more dangerous to the Fukushima birds than they are to the birds near Chernobyl.
The birds were fed by Bungay resident Gordon Knowles until the last half dozen of the birds were handed in to an animal charity about two years ago.
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The birds were fed by Bungay resident Gordon Knowles until the last half dozen of the birds were handed in to an animal charity nearly three years ago.
The devices monitored the birds' location and contained posture sensors to detect how often the birds put their heads down to feed.
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In the late 1990s, the Bali starling became one of the rarest birds in the world.
One is that the embryonic birds in the favoured eggs really do have better genetic health than their less-favoured half-siblings.
One of the rarest birds in the world has been released back into the wild, with help from conservationists from Chester Zoo.
The new birds in the sky really would then become carbon accountants.
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In addition to the chirping birds and the desolate houses here, my Shanghai comprises friends downtown and an endless stream of party nights.
Post-mortem tests have been carried out on hundreds of the dead birds by the BTO and the results are due to be published within the next few weeks.
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The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds says the scale is too huge to support.
Other objectors included English Nature, the Environment Agency, The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the Residents Against Dibden Bay group.
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The iconic California condor was on the brink of extinction in 1987 when the surviving 22 birds in the wild were taken into captivity.
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Since February 2011 Moy Park had reduced the number of birds at the farm and that had marginally improved the smell, the court was told.
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