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2. Birdcage - Wikipedia

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   Cages should also be equipped with appropriate perches. There should be several diameters of perches available, but the diameter should be large enough so that the bird's toes are unable to overlap or completely wrap around the perch. Flight cages and aviaries should be equipped with perches at each end with open space in the middle for flight. [9]

3. Southern fiscal - Wikipedia

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   The southern fiscal is usually solitary and hunts insects and small rodents from an exposed perch or the tops of shrubs. Territorial size is directly related to the density of hunting perches. Installing more artificial perches causes the fiscal to reduce its territory size and allow more birds in the affected range.

4. Aviary - Wikipedia

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   Home aviary, Néthen, Belgium, non-commercial wooden construction. An aviary is a large enclosure for confining birds, although bats may also be considered for display. Unlike birdcages, aviaries allow birds a larger living space where they can fly; hence, aviaries are also sometimes known as flight cages or bird cages in some places in the United Kingdom.

5. Composition of Yards and Perches - Wikipedia

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   It is ordained that 3 grains of barley dry and round do make an inch, 12 inches make 1 foot, 3 feet make 1 yard, 5 yards and a half make a perch, and 40 perches in length and 4 in breadth make an acre. [2] [3]: 277 A similar statement is made in Liber Horn (as published in The Statutes of the Realm):

6. Bird feet and legs - Wikipedia

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   Perching (as on a branch) or clinging [3] Carrying (like ospreys holding fish) [3] Flight-related Serving probably as the primary take-off accelerator. In the common vampire bat, by contrast, the required force is generated by the wing. [18] [19] Absorbing the shock of landing on a perch and on the water, becoming "water skis" [3] Feeding and ...

7. Northern flicker - Wikipedia

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   Their tongues can dart out 50 mm (2 in) beyond the end of the bill to catch prey. [16] The northern flicker is a natural predator of the European corn borer ( Ostrinia nubilalis ), an invasive species of moth that costs the U.S. agriculture industry more than $1 billion annually in crop losses and population control. [ 20 ]