He tries, and fails, to fashion a walking stick from a dead branch.

Male birds sing from an exposed perch such as a dead branch or the top of a tree.

Dead branches are the favourite calling post for this bird, a relative of the less-colourful collared dove.

Dead branches also encourage diseases so, regardless of how their removal will affect the shape of a plant, chop them out.

Dead branches dried up and the amount of forests on the flood plains decreased sharply.