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    | The Effects of Bird Harassment on Airports | Bird deterrents methods | In this article‚ the main focus is on the presence of birds on airfields and their negative effects on the airport. Birds can damage aircraft and risk the lives of human passengers. In response to this situation‚ wildlife management programs have been established to control wildlife. This article also identifies many different bird deterring techniques | | | Micah Harper | 11/15/2011 | | Table of Contents

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    Birds The earliest birds of which we have any record were descended from reptiles and lived about a hundred and thirty million years ago. These first birds had tails like lizards and teeth in their jaws. Over a period of many millions of years‚ the wings developed at the expense of the tail and the teeth disappeared. Thus birds as we know the today have evolved. They now differ very much from reptiles and it is only because of the research of zoologists one hundred years ago‚ that they were

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    Birds (class Aves) are feathered‚ winged‚ bipedal‚ endothermic (warm-blooded)‚ egg-laying‚ vertebrate animals. With around 10‚000 living species‚ they are the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. All present species belong to the subclass Neornithes‚ and inhabit ecosystems across the globe‚ from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from the 5 cm (2 in) Bee Hummingbird to the 2.75 m (9 ft) Ostrich. The fossil record indicates that birds emerged within theropod dinosaurs

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    upon us. These things are things I would never wish on someone. The birds have just come through the children’s bedroom. With great rage they have went for there eyes and hand. The only thing I could do was fight. They came in swarms at me as I moved into the bedroom. The only thing I had to protect myself was the towel in my hand‚ and as I fought them back with my towel they went for my eyes. I am lucky I can still see. With the birds now dead in bunches on the floor I cant stop thinking about why they

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    build up‚ or a gate to mend‚ at the far end of the peninsula‚ where the sea surrounded the farmland on either side. Then‚ at midday‚ he would pause and eat the meat pie his wife had baked for him and‚ sitting on the cliff’s edge‚ watch the birds. In autumn great flocks of them came to the peninsula‚ restless‚ uneasy‚ spending themselves in motion; now wheeling‚ circling the sky; now settling to feed on the rich‚ new-turned soil; but even when they fed‚ it was as though they

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    James Audubon and Annie Dillard‚ both writers experienced seeing a flock of birds in flight‚ but Audubon takes a more scientific approach and Dillard conveys a more casual and awestruck message. Audubon and Dillard both share the amazement and awe felt by watching these creatures of the skies‚ but what separates the two pieces is Audubon’s sophisticated diction defines the piece as a scientific documentation of birds in flight by using words like‚ “eminence” and “inconceivable”. Audubon published

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    Strike [Sec. 2 (q)]: Strike means "a cessation of work by a body of persons employed in any industry acting in combination or a concerted refusal under a common understanding of any number of persons who are or have been so employed‚ to continue to work or to accept employment". Mere stoppage of work does not come within the meaning of strike unless it can be shown that such stoppage of work was a concerted action for the enforcement of an industrial demand.  Procedure of Strikes  According to Sec

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    A strike is a form of protest whereby a group of employees withhold labour in order to pressure employers into granting a particular demand. (Cambridge Dictionairies) Causes and effects of strikes in South Africa: Causes - Lack of transformation‚ mutual respect‚ trust‚ and socio-economic equity (SABC‚ 2014). - Dissatisfaction with pay or working and living conditions. Effects - Companies: financial losses‚ reduced productivity‚ profitability and market share‚ and delayed service delivery. Employees:

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    TURZAR‚ ALMA F. BSE-B12 THE TEACHER’S STRIKE It was April of 1990 when the teacher’s strike began and ended at the end of May of the same year. The teachers’ strike at our Boystown/ Girlstown in Manila where I studied High School was classified as one of the major crises in the life of the Sisters and our Founder‚ Msgr. Aloysius Schwartz. At first‚ Fr. Al misjudged the situation and treated it as nothing

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    Plot summary the birds Set in a small Cornish seaside town on December the third‚ there is a sudden change in weather from autumn to winter. A war veteran‚ Nat Hocken‚ living in the town and working part time for a farm owner notices a large number of birds behaving strangely along the peninsula where his family lives. He attributes this to the sudden arrival of winter. That night‚ he hears a tapping on his bedroom window and encounters a bird. This bird has only drawn blood on Nat’s hand‚ but as

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