Luckily for the pupils, the principal said he had "grown to love" Percy, so the bird remains safe for another year.
While this not so angry bird doesn't seem too eager to attack, it might be a good idea for other companies (especially social networks) using similar technologies to assess their current setup just to be on the safe side.
He splits the backbone down the middle and bends the bones so that the bird lies flat.
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.
After marvelling at the grace of, say, a white pelican gliding after a school of fish, he would take aim with his hunting rifle, using fine shot so that the bird was not blown to pieces in the process.
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.
Occasionally, a bird swivels so that its lighter-colored underbelly shows, lending tonal range to the work while also making sure the audience reads these as mynahs and not, say, crows.
The loonie (so named for the bird on the one-dollar coin) has soared from a record low of 62.1 American cents in January 2002 to over 74 cents this week, its highest level in six years.
There are seafaring excursions such as sunset cruises and trips to Bird Island, so called for its abundance of red-footed boobies and brown noddies.
The nest was daubed with white paint in an attempt to imitate bird droppings, so the birds would think it was an established nesting site.
"This species is barely clinging on in the south of Scotland, so to lose an adult bird from this already tiny population is, in conservation terms, a disaster, " he said.
In other cases, in lieu of cheese, there was a menacing cartoon owl hovering above the maze, such that it behooved the mouse to reach the exit so as not to become bird food.
The bird flu, so-called H5N1, has top epidemiologists across the world on edge because of its potential to mutate into a new strain that no one would be immune to and that could easily spread among humans.
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There are so many examples, but Larry Bird joined a Boston Celtics team that was 29-53 upon his arrival, but a year later the Celtics finished 61-21.
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Deaths apart, investors worry that widespread regional outbreaks of bird flu will make so many people unable or unwilling to work that global supply chains will be interrupted and output will fall, tipping the world into recession.
"In exactly the same way that a GP might pick up the first signs of an outbreak of bird flu etc, so the plant doctors can be there on the ground to pick up the first signs of a new pest, or something that has not been picked up previously, " Dr Nicholls explained.
Transmission of bird flu among humans has so far been a rare hazard.
"If you don't have a fountain in your garden, at least place a bird bath on the ground so rabbits and other creatures can have a water source, " she says.
It also enables authorities to monitor outbreaks of bird flu for the dangerous mutations and so nip a potential epidemic in the bud.
No unhealthy bird could possibly grow such an appendage, so it is a clear sign of good genes.
That's important, Borroni-Bird said, both for safety reasons and so drivers can get some sense of enjoyment from the vehicle.
So are we ready to battle a pandemic strain of bird flu if this new virus picks up the capacity to more efficiently spread from person to person?
So we know they had venison, and they likely had some kind of water fowl goose, duck, swan or eagle. (Best not to think about those last two.) The fowl also could have been wild turkey, but if so, it was a very distant relative of that bird in the supermarket case today.
Professor Ronald Levy, head of the cancer divison at Stanford University in the US, said that the bird virus could not replicate in human cells, so was likely to be safe to use in humans.
"I am surprised that the true identity of this bird has remained hidden from the scientific world for so long, " George Sangster, lead author from the Swedish Museum of Natural History, said in an email.
Flu viruses can swap genes with each other, so if someone carrying a human flu virus catches the new bird flu, the two strains could mingle inside the victim's body, creating a new, highly contagious and lethal human plague.
So, when my mother told me there was an obviously sick bird in the house, I took her seriously.
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I've one hen left that has a nest inside the bird room and she's now got no mate so she's left the eggs.
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