Where they see magic, the locals see 90-degree heat, humidity and mosquitoes the size of small birds.
The deer hung stiff and heavy and empty, and small birds blew in the wind, and the wind turned their feathers.
They're perfect for shoring up unfilling salads and brothy soups, stuffing small birds and pork loins or standing in for rice in risottos.
The coati is an omnivorous animal and it was likely to be surviving on fruits, berries and leaves as well as mice and small birds.
"They will just take everything in the landscape and if they destroy the trees and eat the grasses there's no kangaroos, no emus, no small birds if there's no trees, no reptiles, " she says.
Gemma Butlin, from the RSPB, said the increasing numbers were to be celebrated and that there was "absolutely no evidence to suggest that red kites have had an impact on the population of any small birds".
The residences at Sengokuyama occupy the bottom half of the 47-story building, giving residents a view of the 5-acre grounds, which include a garden specially designed to attract small indigenous birds such as woodpeckers and thrushes, as well as a tree-shaded plaza.
Burmese pythons, which can grow up to 23ft (7m) long, eat small mammals, birds and alligators.
The coati is about the same size and shape as a raccoon and is omnivorous - eating leaves, fruit, small rodents, birds and eggs.
Plans for a chicken farm housing more than 300, 000 birds in a small Lincolnshire hamlet have been approved.
The turkeys' nature is to return to the area from which they were scattered, but hunters must be as still as possible -- even a small movement will spook the birds.
Along the path, I heard the twitterings of native Welsh birds, including the small red-legged blackbirds known as cloughs.
Dr Jakob Vinther, of the University of Bristol, agrees: "The fact they were having a diverse diet of both small and large dinosaurs and primitive birds could suggest that they were not specialist predators but more likely a scavenger - a sort of vulture".
In a few spots, the water remains, forming shallow marshlands called "vlei" (pronounced "vlay") that support trees, birds, frogs and other small wildlife.
The small-but-steady approach of birds, bees, and ants offers a better model for changing human behavior than the hop-to-it top-down model used by many companies and governments.
Mr. Henley says he spent several years learning to make foie gras that wouldn't violate the California ban, visiting small farms in Hungary and France that feed birds a smaller amount.
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.
This gives more weight to a very well-supported theory that modern birds evolved from theropods, the group of small carnivorous dinosaurs to which Sinosauropteryx belonged.
But four-year-old Baoyuanfeng, like many companies in China's food industry, is relatively small, with a processing capacity of 100, 000 birds a day, according to a profile of the company published on a local website.
"The birds are preying on the fish in ditches and small pools northeast of the lake, " said Dale Hall, acting regional director for the Southeastern Region of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
"Essentially a small amount of this material in the sea will pollute a lot of birds, " he said.
When I first stumbled upon Rovi Corporation (ROVI) I assumed it was the small game development company that had its hand in the development of Angry Birds.
Involving more than 2000 trained volunteers, a small, uniquely numbered metal ring is fitted on the legs of more than 800, 000 birds.
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.
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