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...There are at least three drawers of eider feathers, a rolling vault of taxidermied owls and kingfishers, spirit-pickled starfish, a dozen stag heads, and voles, ferrets, mice and rats stuffed in cabinet...
...Certain birds, such as owls or ravens, offered signs of things to come....
...Birds feature as hunched balls of feathers. Food is scarce. Animals are not at their best. This was borne home to me by a trip to a seal haul-out on Tyneside....
...A huge Verreaux’s eagle owl, with bright pink eyelids, fed by the Masons after they found it as an orphaned chick, swooped down on the sand for scraps....
...Diners are served tender slivers of breast meat skewered on a wing bone (feathers still attached for decoration)....
...Sharing a snap of an owl is unlikely to ruffle many feathers on Twitter, and this bird soon accumulated a social media following that other preening New Yorkers would kill for....
...Indeed, scientists are studying the fine structure of owl feathers in search of materials to reduce the noise pollution from aeroplanes or wind turbines and quieten our busy world....
...He’s now attempting to distance himself from Vladimir Putin’s regime without ruffling feathers in Moscow, Bloomberg reports....
...The landscape also takes on the owl’s appearance in descriptions of paths that “cut into the forest like vanes of a feather radiating from its shaft”....
...Our Oxford garden provides enough darkness and tree cover for three types of owl to thrive....
...Twigs resemble feathers or brushstrokes against the dark-blue sky. Rustling leaves convey that she does not belong to the night. Now owls, bears, foxes and small creatures run free....
...It might be a brown owl, sometimes audible in the nearby trees, but owls fly off with corpses and chew them into little pellets. Then they stuff them into the throats of their hungry young....
...Just feet in front of us was a male Wilson’s, the size of a thrush, leaping around on the ground, crazy iridescent curly tail feathers like a handlebar moustache, a bright turquoise skullcap on his head,...
...As time went on I started to think, if I were a deer where would I drink from, or if an owl, where would I prefer to perch, and positioned cameras in such places....
...The Antiques Trade Gazette reported that the ivory elements were removed and crushed, and that feathers on an 18th-century music box were stripped....
...), and pluck an undertail feather or two for a DNA sample....
...- “Due to some spilled genetic Super-Splicer, our hero got tangled up with both a cat and an owl; hence his fur and feathers, and his identity problems....
...They know the tiny boy who played Kermit covered himself in green make-up manfully, frogfully, before each performance, and tried to keep his head in the face of my pink feather boa....
...The council has tried everything, from netting and spikes to plastic owls, bird scarers and fire gel. But the seagulls keep on coming....
...The flat has been sympathetically converted from a feather merchant’s warehouse, which was built in the 1880s....
...he opens his smartphone and an ageing diva in a feather-trimmed silk gown fills the screen. What follows is 10 minutes of melodrama as the singer bids operatic farewell to her career....
...At sunset a martial eagle performed a vertical dive, its feathers humming like a swarm of bees, smited an egret and carried it away....
...There are skirts with owls and ladybirds and birds of paradise, the new best friends of refugee princesses seeking sanctuary in the woods....
...riding hood, aka little red riding fur, who romped through pastoral castles in chiffon empire-waisted gowns printed with posies and woodland creatures and short brocade coats and tunics with folkloric felt owls...
...“I knew in my mind it would be a sort of labyrinth, because you get glimpses and feathers. But I was surprised. It was bleaker than I imagined. Much bleaker....
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