Their camouflage is so excellent that they can be approached closely before they take to flight, a behaviour which has resulted in folk names and beliefs that the birds are short-sighted or blind.
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These larks are found in pairs or small groups and form larger flocks in winter. They forage on the ground for seeds and insects. When disturbed they will sometimes crouch and take to flight. They will take fallen grain in fields.
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They appear stocky with a short neck, short thick bill and buff-brown back. In summer, adults have long neck feathers. Its appearance is transformed from their dull colours when they take to flight, when the white of the wings makes them very prominent. It is very similar to the squacco heron, Ardeola ralloides, but is darker-backed.
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Baltimore Ravens, lets go/And put that ball across the line So fly on with talons spread wide/Go in and strike with Ravens pride.(Fight! Fight! Fight!) Ravens dark wings, take to flight/Dive in and show them your might For Baltimore and Maryland, you will fly on to victory!"Lyrics to Ravens fight song", The Baltimore Sun, August 25, 2010.
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When disturbed, they usually escape by running and rarely take to flight. Peafowl produce loud calls especially in the breeding season. They may call at night when alarmed and neighbouring birds may call in a relay like series. Nearly seven different call variants have been identified in the peacocks apart from six alarm calls that are commonly produced by both sexes.
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These birds are usually seen in small flocks. They are usually found where the grass is not taller than them, since the tall grass blocks their view. They feed on insects mainly termites, beetles, crickets and grasshoppers picked up from the ground in stubbly or uncultivated fields. They run in spurts on the ground but take to flight with a hoarse creaky gwaat call.
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But all the Crotoniats, with the exception of Aristomachus, declared that they would rather die than submit to this. As Aristomachus, who had betrayed the town, was unable to betray the arx also, he saw no way but to take to flight, and he accordingly went over to Hanno. The Crotoniats soon after quitted their town altogether and migrated to Locri. Livy XXIV 2, 3.
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At night after rain showers, such as in the weather in which termites undertake their nuptial flights, barking geckos commonly leave their burrows to hunt actively for prey. During the brief season when the termites take to flight, they form an important part of the geckos' nutrition. At other times of the year, the geckos are mainly ambush predators, awaiting prey at the burrow entrance and sallying forth opportunistically.
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Damhouder (c. 72), "with his ideas of defence against dishonour, is > of the contrary opinion," the court noted (572A). But no one can be expected > to take to flight to avoid an attack, if flight does not afford him a safe > way of escape. A man is not bound to expose himself to the risk of a stab in > the back, when by killing his assailant he can secure his own safety > [...].
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The remnants of the enemy then either give themselves up or take to flight. Eventually, a completely reformed Edmund Pevensie is crowned by Aslan as King Edmund, co-ruler of Narnia with Queen Lucy, Queen Susan and High King Peter, and is knighted as Duke of Lantern Waste, Count of the Western March, and Knight of the Noble Order of the Table. After fifteen years in Narnia, he and his siblings return to England, where they all magically appear as children again.
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"As soon as the women and children were fled, their fired their own Castles." L'Abbe de Belmont wrote that the Seneca "came to reconnoiter us and then went to burn their village and take to flight." Upon the French arrival at the village on the 14th, Denonville reports, "we found it burned" and a nearby fort abandoned. The French killed "a vast quantity of hogs", and, from the four Seneca villages they visited, destroyed 1.2 million bushels of stored and standing corn.
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They do not dive or up-end and take to flight from the water surface without having to run or patter on the surface. They fly swiftly, often low over water, and are agile enough to escape falcons. Courtship displays are largely undocumented but a post-copulatory display involves the male arching neck, displaying the white neck feathers and the white wing patches. They pair up during the breeding season which is mainly during the rains (monsoons in June–August India and January to March in Australia) and build their nests mainly in natural tree hollows, such as tree trunks.
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She warns her cousin, Ben, and by making inquiry, they learn where the officer was seen last. Peyton is discovered in the attic window by Ben, who climbs the porch and assists the officer to escape. Hearing the disturbance, the smugglers take to flight and when the cutter comes steaming up the river in response to Peyton's message, the officer, together with Marcella and Ben, is taken aboard. There is an exciting pursuit, in which the smugglers in a tugboat cast out a net and entangle the propeller of the cutter, but the lawbreakers are finally captured and Peyton receives two rewards.
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The extra meat was preserved as pemmican.Mass Kills. Texas Beyond History. In one of his journals, Meriwether Lewis describes how a buffalo jump was practiced during the Lewis and Clark Expedition: > one of the most active and fleet young men is selected and disguised in a > robe of buffalo skin... he places himself at a distance between a herd of > buffalo and a precipice proper for the purpose; the other Indians now > surround the herd on the back and flanks and at a signal agreed on all show > themselves at the same time moving forward towards the buffalo; the > disguised Indian or decoy has taken care to place himself sufficiently near > the buffalo to be noticed by them when they take to flight and running > before them they follow him in full speed to the precipice; the Indian > (decoy) in the mean time has taken care to secure himself in some cranny in > the cliff... the part of the decoy I am informed is extremely > dangerous.
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