Birds

Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves , characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton. Birds live worldwide and range in size from the 5.5 cm (2.2 in) bee hummingbird to the 2.8 m (9 ft 2 in) ostrich. There are about ten thousand living species, more than half of which are passerine, or "perching" birds. Birds have wings whose development varies according to species; the only known groups without wings are the extinct moa and elephant birds. Wings, …

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UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 3 May 2024 English

Beading fosters traditional methods of teaching and learning and enables intergenerational transmissions of pattern and skill. These conversations, interviews, essays, and full-colour reproductions of artwork from expert and emerging artists, …

awestruck listening to the breath- taking songs of birds who were no longer drowned out by the incessant so that we can have a world where the beauty of birds, wildlife, land, water, sky, and earth can continue


FRHD: Freehand Books · 1 May 2024 English

Rose Drury and her partner, Lucy, have just learned that their son, Roger, is considered to be below average — at the third percentile rank in most areas, according to …

wanted to teeter, but it did not. No alarm! Only birds who had been up for hours, no doubt, why had I euphoria. The warm wind rushed at us like loving birds and George said, “Some people think this was where


FRHD: Freehand Books · 1 May 2024 English

A powerful debut about the lives of women and girls caught in the orbit of the military. Female recruits weathering toxic masculine environments. Military wives stretched thin across countless military …

roommates, pale green walls. The only sounds were the birds and the occasional thunder of a leopard tank rumbling freely. She’d have conversations about bridges and birds and mustard seed. She would blossom, unencumbered


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 30 April 2024 English

Limited Verse is now universally recognized as a valuable case study in the short-lived literary arts of New English. The translated poems in this collection offer a fascinating portal to …

all about it Turn shades of the bitter wasteland birds. The darkness drops again; but now I see That two the fish that swim; New-firecoal chestnut-falls; birds’ wings;   Farmland fielded and parted — fold, hollow the cold, Wasted harmony, where late the sweet birds sang. In me you see the sundown of such day As after flowers and bread, Or an old coat: Sweet as our birds To the ear, As the red berry In the heat Of Midsummer: cart silvered with rain water beside the white birds [William Carlos Williams]62 General Opening When


ELC: Environmental Law Centre · 23 April 2024 English

In the case of the Tobacco Act, the federal government is exercising its criminal law power to create legislation that addresses the public health concern of smoking, and it regulates …

“kill fish, injure freshwater invertebrates, harm birds and plant life” and remain toxic for an extended


DRV: Durvile Publications · 20 April 2024 English

“The Ascenti AI Project” is about AI and Creativity. Ascenti: Humans Opening to AI book features a diverse group of professionals, known as “creatives,” who specialize in visual art, writing, …

with you. It’s the vibes. And watch out for the birds! They act freaking scary, too. The train growls


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 17 April 2024 English

An essential tool for policy-makers working to develop a sector-wide vision for responsible mining.

habitat for caribou, wolverines, and many migratory birds (Wildlife Conservation Society Canada, n.d.). The


UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 12 April 2024 English

"The Honourable John Norquay is a magnificent book. Friesen meticulously documents Norquay's many accomplishments, larger-than-life character, and charisma. He paints a picture of a negotiator and orator who ably uses …

mosquitoes), a species known for harassing other birds. He loved the excitement of night-time “scooping relied on local food. Meat came from domestic birds and animals as well as the hunt, and cereals were


IHRP: International Human Rights Program, University of Toronto · 10 April 2024 English

The granting of such a permit primarily depends on ZKHWKHU WKH FRPSDQ\¶V proposed activities align with the purpose of the community forest, the goals of the Forest Management Plan and …

trucks. There are no studies to say whether nesng birds will be killed, what kind of plants will have to


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 5 April 2024

Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics seeks to dislodge the often unspoken white universalism that underpins literary production and reception today. In this personal and thoughtful book, award-winning author Wayde Compton explores …

of memory will make flowers, will make flocks of birds, will make sky, will make heaven, the heaven open


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