People across North America and elsewhere who enjoy watching birds put out devices called bird feeders and continually supply them with seed.This practice is especially popular during the fall and winter, when natural food sources for the birds become scarce. However,these well-meaning bird lovers are not doing the birds any favors;feeding them throughout the fall and into the winter months can harm birds in several ways.
First, feeders encourage many birds to gather in one place and thus facilitate the spread of diseases. A particularly pointed example of this may well be house finches, a species commonly drawn to feeders. This species has experienced an epidemic of infectious eye disease and its population has declined by 60 percent in the last decade.Feeders may have accelerated the spread of the disease by encouraging house finches to gather together in concentrated numbers.
Second,when people put feeders near their homes, they are exposing birds to several dangers.Predators such as house cats and hawks find it easy to catch and eat birds that come to the feeders. Furthermore, when frightened birds attempt to escape from predators, they often fly directly into the windows of nearby houses and cars because they cannot see these dangerous obstacles. Millions of birds die from the combined effects of predators and window strikes every year.
Third,bird feeders could encourage birds that typically migrate to warmer areas during the winter to remain in areas they would otherwise leave,thus disrupting the natural order. Birds delayed in their winter migration could be injured or killed by harsh weather they would otherwise have avoided, or they may miss their chance to pair up with mates because they arrived late to breeding grounds.
In summary, scarcely at all the professor agrees with what is presented in the passage. He claims that , where as the reading passage make the point that
In the reading material, the author cites three reasons to support the viewpoint that bird feeders has a deleterious impact on birds. However, the lecture in the listening material argues that these feeders can be quite beneficial for birds and oppose the points in the reading material.
First and foremost, the author argues that the bird feeder encourages the spread of certain disease. According to the lecture, conversely, the professor holds the view that bird feeder plays no role in spreading disease. The example of house finches is wrong, as house finches tend to form large groups and interact with different groups is the true reason of the disease.
In addition, the lecturer casts doubt on the author's another reason that the bird feeder exposes birds to several dangers like more predators, demonstrating that it actually provides birds with more nutrition. With the help of better nutrition, birds will more likely to raise young birds into adulthood. The increasing number of young birds will compensate for the loss of birds attacked by predators.
Finally, the author's third reason that it disrupts birds' migration routine is also counteracted by the lecturer who points out that feeders have nothing to do with delaying the migration. In fact, birds are able to use sunlight as a standard to judge whether it is the right time to migrate. And the bird feeder actually proved extra nutrition for birds who delay their migration based on different reasons.
In summary, scarcely at all the professor agrees with what is presented in the passage. She claims that bird feeders are beneficial for birds' development, while as the passage make the point that it will have bad effect on birds.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 103, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...presented in the passage. He claims that , where as the reading passage make the p...
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Line 1, column 106, Rule ID: WHERE_AS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'whereas'?
Suggestion: whereas
...sented in the passage. He claims that , where as the reading passage make the point that...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, conversely, finally, first, however, if, so, third, while, in addition, in fact, in summary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 30.3222958057 139% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1566.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 309.0 270.72406181 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.06796116505 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1926597562 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49899875892 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.498381877023 0.540411800872 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 463.5 419.366225166 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.2123049784 49.2860985944 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.857142857 110.228320801 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0714285714 21.698381199 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.64285714286 7.06452816374 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.09492273731 147% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.277657211379 0.272083759551 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.113469235852 0.0996497079465 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0617984607445 0.0662205650399 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.145351032154 0.162205337803 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0739930440426 0.0443174109184 167% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.3589403974 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.2 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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