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
Proper noun order to establish the context in which they are unique: "the young Mr Hamilton" (not the old one), "the Dr Brown I know"; or as proper nouns to define an aspect of the referent: "the young Einstein" (Einstein when he was young). The indefinite article "a" may similarly be used to establish a new referent: "the column was written by a ["or" one] Mary Price". Proper names based on noun phrases differ grammatically from common noun phrases. They are fixed expressions, and cannot be modified internally: "beautiful King's College" is acceptable, but not "King's famous College". As with proper nouns,