The Kakapo‚ also known as the owl parrot is native to New Zealand and is absolutely fascinating in many unique ways. It weighs on average‚ 8 pounds and is known as a flightless bird‚ traveling mainly along the forest floors. It is known for using a braking system called parachuting in lieu of flying‚ its large beak is perfect for climbing trees and its large wings are perfect for gliding from tree to tree. The Kakapo is largely nocturnal which lends to its nickname the owl parrot and uses its unique
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“If birds of a feather flock together‚ they don’t learn enough” ~Robert Half~ The first thing that comes to mind when reading this quote is a flock of geese. They all stick together. They learn from one another and what they learn they pass on to future generations. While this is how they learn to stay safe‚ they are “stuck” doing the same thing every day. After reading the quote a few more times and looking at it from “outside the box” I realized that the birds represent people. Throughout
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Evolution of Birds It has become widely accepted that birds have evolved from reptiles in the Jurassic period and are the living descendants of a group of dinosaurs called theropods. Birds share hundreds of unique skeletal features with dinosaurs. Over the years‚ birds have evolved in a wide variety of forms‚ from flightless and aquatic to flying animals. Due to poor fossil records‚ some information regarding the evolution of birds are based on theories but during the last 30 years‚ the evolutionary
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exist throughout the play in numerous motifs and symbols‚ including birds. What birds represent in literature varies; they can mean a journey‚ freedom‚ positive omen‚ and everything humans quest to understand. In Macbeth they can mean different things depending on the kind of bird‚ one sees less menacing birds appear around the mention of children‚ and birds of prey are referred to around the time of bad tidings. Although birds may be interpreted as symbols of freedom and innocence‚ their roles in
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“The Birds” The men and women of the world did something that affected Mother Nature‚ thus having the birds attack people around the world; how tough can the men and women of this world can come to get over this chaos? Even though birds had been flying the skies for over a thousand years‚ they had shown the people of what they are capable of doing and cannot. The short story “The Birds” by Du Maurier and the movie “The Birds” by Alfred Hitchcock; the short story has a better story‚ because in
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How do we know which season the poet describes? A. The season is spring‚ seen in the springing grass‚ first bird‚ first bud. Note the simile here‚ which helps us picture the pastoral scene which the bird so desperately wishes to join. What figure of speech describes the flower? A. The poet refers to the fragrance of a flower as it opens. He uses a metaphor to compare the flower to a goblet. What type of figurative language is used here? A. The poet uses personification‚ “cruel bars‚” attributing
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cannot stick to the core theme of the story. Although Maurier’s “The Birds” and Hitchcock’s The Birds have similar plot structures‚ the short story version is more entertaining because of lack of romance‚ more concise beginning‚ and ambiguous ending. There is a gathering of external plot points added to The Birds film. For starters‚ The Birds is more of a romance movie with some bird conflict along the way whereas “The Birds” short story focuses more on the suspense aspect of the plot. Since
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Introduction Angry Birds‚ as a strategy puzzle mobile game developed by Finnish computer game developer Rovio Mobile‚ has now become worldwide. As a great successful game‚ first developed for Apple’s iOS and then transplanted to other touch screen-based smart phones. In this series‚ from the viewpoint of a mobile developer‚ I want to try to find out some of the how-toes by developing a similar game that runs on the Android operating system using the Game Maker Studio. In early 2009‚ Finland based
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The Conference of the Birds Facets of Persian literature‚ namely their poetry‚ resonate in the writings from nearby regions such as India and Central Asia. Even more remarkable though‚ elements of Persian works are even found in Western literature‚ specifically English‚ German‚ and Swedish. Considering the influence Persian literature has had on literature around the world‚ it is worth examining these works in a World Literature English class. In particular‚ this paper will give reasons as
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Vedanthankal Lake Bird Sanctuary (Tamil: வேடந்தாங்கல் பறவைகள் சரணாலயம்) is a 30-hectare (74 acres) sanctuary located in the Kancheepuram District of the state of Tamil Nadu‚ India. The sanctuary is about 75 kilometres (47 mi) from Chennai on National Highway 45 (NH45) south of Chengalpattu. Vedanthangal is a home for migratory birds‚ such as pintail‚ garganey‚ grey wagtail‚ blue-winged teal‚ common sandpiper and some more.[1] Vedanthangal is about one and half hour journey from Chennai. It is one
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