The Life of Birds those birds whose sustenance comes from flesh and their methods of hunting. In New Zealand, Attenborough observes keas, parrots that do not eat meat exclusively, raiding a shearwater's burrow for a chick. However, it is the dedicated birds of prey, such as owls, buzzards, eagles, falcons and vultures, to which much of the programme is devoted. In order to spot and pursue their victims, senses of sight and hearing are very acute. Vultures are the exception, in that they eat what others have left, and once a carcass is found, so many birds descend on it that the carrion seems
Noun class in English, but quite common in languages which have the true grammatical gender, including most of the Indo-European family, to which English belongs. When noun class is expressed on other parts of speech, besides nouns and pronouns, the language is said to have grammatical gender. In languages without inflectional noun classes, nouns may still be extensively categorized by independent particles called noun classifiers. Common criteria that define noun classes include: See Swahili for the semantic motivations for an elaborate noun-class system. The Ojibwe language and other members of the Algonquian languages distinguish between animate and inanimate classes. Some sources argue