early bird

It demonstrates how important sexual selection was in shaping the plumage of early birds, O’Connor says.

Together, these two factors—the speed of your master clock and how responsive it is to environmental signals—determine whether you’re an early bird or night owl, a distinction otherwise known as your chronotype.

She’s a night owl and he’s an early bird, so Peter has a habit of bringing Betty breakfast in bed before he heads out for a morning walk.

Many of the early bird fossils we've discovered so far come from older, early-Cretaceous rocks in China, with the timeframe between then and the end-Cretaceous extinction more of a question mark.

Within a few million years, however, Archaeopteryx and other early birds evolved.

When cities started adding chlorine to their water supplies, in the early 1900s, it set off public outcry.

It’s cool because Trenchmouth opened for Green Day in the early ‘90s in Wisconsin.

At first—it was the early stages of reporting—I was amused at having been so crassly underestimated.

Early on, the sexual protagonist complains that her Molson-drinking husband is pretty much an incompetent Neanderthal.

Detectives with a fugitive task force caught up with Polanco and a friend on a Bronx street in the early afternoon.

Fourteen genera, representing about 19 species, of Mallophaga are reported for 20 different species of bird hosts.

The "new world" was really found in the wonder-years of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

When his lordship retired early, as was his custom, the other men adjourned once more to the billiard-room.

In the early stages of chronic nephritis, when diagnosis is difficult, it is usually normal.

The grass had a delightful fragrance, like new-mown hay, and was neatly wound around the tunnel, like the inside of a bird's-nest.