Birds-eye figure is (surprise) a grain pattern reminiscent of hundreds of small bird's eyes scattered across the face of a board or veneer.
An appeal for volunteers has been launched in the Isle of Man in an effort to eradicate the rat population on a small bird sanctuary in the Irish Sea.
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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.
It was, for example, able to record the wandering of a wren from Cumbria in the north of England to Devon in the south a distance of 400km (250 miles), and an astonishing hop for a bird so small.
Along with the flapping, the robotic bird included a small sound generating system to play authentic calls and swamp noises.
The loggerhead shrike, a small grey, black and white bird, has declined by 92% since then.
The Zambian barbet (aka Caplin's barbet) is the country's only endemic bird and, due to its small population and disappearing habitat, has been listed as a vulnerable species (likely to become endangered).
Roasting a whole chicken can take well over an hour, depending on its size, but simply roasting small bone-in pieces of a broken-down bird, as is called for here, takes half an hour or less.
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Domestic cats kill between 1.4 billion and 3.7 billion birds and up to 20 billion small rodents each year, according to researchers at the Migratory Bird Center of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute.
It even includes more esoteric bar items like a bird's-nest double strainer used to remove small shards of ice from a shaken drink (to keep the cocktail from getting too diluted) and an ice pick, should you be interested in mastering the art of carving huge globes of ice for your Scotch.
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Starting with small projects, such as a water-treatment system for Singapore's bird zoo, she gradually got bigger and better projects.
Magic Johnson in his prime would be too slow to play point guard in today's locomotive landscape, just as Larry Bird would be too slow to guard any of today's elite small forwards.
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