An interactive window appears midway prompting viewers to contribute to the landscape, typed on a keyboard or drawn with a mouse, which extend into branches and attract a flock of flying birds.
It was agreed the equipment would not be put in place during bird nesting season, and the mast would not have supporting guy lines which could pose a risk to flying birds.
Art restorers working in Valencia's cathedral spotted the birds flying through a hole in what turned out to be a false ceiling and were intrigued.
And this year, despite optimistic forecasts of a great flurry of wings, Scottish gamekeepers think that there has been only a marginal increase in the number of birds flying the gauntlet of the guns.
Travelers will have to get in touch with their airline to see if those birds are flying today.
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In Open City, writer Teju Cole describes Colonel Tassin - a (real) 19th Century figure - who kept count of the number of birds killed by flying into the Statue of Liberty, as many as 1, 400 a night.
He believes Hart was sloppy, Hammerstein soppy (too many easy metaphors like birds, dreams, flying), Coward condescending, Gershwin too striving and Lerner too limited in his palette.
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Globalstar's 48 birds act more like flying antennas, carrying calls to switching systems on the ground that are simple to operate and are linked into local phone networks.
Yes, the digital effects are phenomenal -- midget dragons, oversize dragons, a flying coach drawn by seven white birds, a fully rigged ship rising from beneath a lake, aerial shots of the Hogwarts campus that truly put the fanciful buildings on the map -- but they're so skillfully interwoven with the main action that you take them for granted as casual magic.
Many of the poses and compositions were probably borrowed from Chinese ink paintings, and here they come together in a dynamic composition of black birds clustering on land and flying in midair.
The adjustments made by that circle of seven are quickly transferred to their circles -- 49 more birds, minus however many are flying in multiple circles.
Part of the vision calls for flying jets in the same formation as a flock of birds, which would reduce energy use and carbon emissions.
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His co-authored paper backs up theories birds evolved from dinosaurs whose feathers were not used for flying.
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