Sentences with phrase «fall migration in»

Monitoring hummingbird populations during the peak of fall migration in the Chiricahua Mountains helps scientists foresee how these primary pollinators of more than 150 U.S. flowering plant species respond to changes in climate

Fall migration in this area is proceeding normally, and the Texas coast, which usually winters one to 3 million waterfowl, promises best hunting success.

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Population growth rates have fallen in Western Australia and across the country as a whole, with WA experiencing a sharp drop in overseas migration and a net loss of people through interstate movements.

Changes in the flows of interstate migration are generally associated with relative employment opportunities and housing affordability; consistent with this, the sharpest fall in population growth in NSW coincided with a pronounced decline in the state's relative housing affordability and employment growth.

While net overseas migration to NSW has fallen over this period, increased outflows of residents to other states have accounted for around two - thirds of the decline in population growth.

The station, located in Newbury, Massachusetts, is designed to monitor migratory passerines (songbirds) during spring and fall migrations.

To participate in the program, simply agree to extinguish architectural and window lighting between 11 pm and 5 am during spring and fall migration seasons by filling in the form below.

Under this more pessimistic assessment, net migration would fall to 130,000 in 2018 and 99,000 in 2020, finally allowing the Conservatives to hit David Cameron's pledge to reduce the numbers to the «tens of thousands».

«These forecasts don't take into account actual policy changes on migration — such as the possibility of stricter immigration rules in the event of leaving the EU — but instead just consider how migration tends to fall when unemployment rises.

There is more to be done, but under the careful eye of Theresa May, immigration has now fallen to its lowest levels in a decade with net migration from outside the European Union at its lowest level for 14 years.

That already appeared a very difficult target to meet without this additional factor, though migration numbers have come down a little, including a fall in student migration, the largest category accounting for a third of immigrants to Britain (though not one that evokes much public concern).

According to data from the Office for National Statistics, net migration in 2014 - 15 will be 330,000, falling to 256,000 next year and 232,000 in 2016 - 17

Net migration fell significantly in 2012, as the coalition government's crackdown on «bogus» student visas and tighter restrictions on non-EU migrants took effect.

The transition from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages in Europe is marked by two key events in European history, i.e., the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the migration into this Empire by various barbarian tribes such as the Goths, Alemanni, Franks, and Lombards.

After all, plenty of young walruses die each year on the sea ice, and Pacific walruses have come ashore on Russian beaches in past decades during their fall migrations.

Johnson: Yeah, in the fall, it's a little more diffuse, wouldn't you say, that it's the spring migration in Central Park is much more of a hot spot.

After spending a relatively leisurely winter and early spring luxuriating in warm tropical climates, they migrate north for a brief but highly eventful summer in North America, during which they must complete three energetically demanding and time - consuming tasks: (1) they must build nests, lay eggs, and provide for their offspring until the young reach independence, (2) they must completely replace all the feathers in their plumage as part of the annual molt, and (3) they must prepare for the fall southward migration by eating prodigiously and storing the body fat that will fuel their long - distance flights.

The work used upward - facing radar systems and recorded insects flying between 150 meters and 1200 meters high, documenting thousands of mass migrations northward in spring and southward in fall, suggesting the insects know when and in what direction to migrate and pick favorable winds to do so.

- An immature male Hooded Warbler, banded in August 1987 at Hilton Pond during fall migration, was netted the following May on breeding grounds near Chapel Hill, N.C., by a graduate student studying this species.

They found that with no migration, Europe's population is set to fall 17 per cent by 2050 — with a 30 per cent decrease in people of working age.

They discovered that monarchs that fall behind in the migration (and which might not survive) tend to have wings with less - than - ideal designs.

These shorter winters mean the swans — which were hunted to the brink of extinction in the 1800s — now have more time to eat and grow strong before embarking on a long migration to the Pacific Northwest each fall, improving their chances for survival.

In particular, the sixth century coincides with rising and falling civilizations1, 2,3,4,5,6, pandemics7, 8, human migration and political turmoil8, 9,10,11,12,13.

Moreover, unsustainable land use practices, coupled with the effects of climate change, lead to land degradation, falling agricultural yields, rise in rural poverty, land abandonment, forced migration and conflict.

As an example, geese eat a quantity of carbohydrate laden foods in the late summer and early fall which causes deposition of fat including a large deposition of liver fat and glycogen, however, when they begin their migration this carb rich diet pretty much ceases as they spend most of their day flying in migration.

The story and images of that poor Syrian boy was one of the most heartbreaking things I have ever seen... For that one image, there are hundreds and thousands of children also falling victim of the dangers of migration due to persecution in their own home countries.

In the fall, before setting up the scent stations, Friend taught her students about migration, seasons, and all the necessary pre-teaching that would set them up for success with the stations.

Though anecdotal reports in California said teachers from disadvantaged schools fled when new positions opened up in other schools when class sizes were reduced, what the follow - up studies show is that after rising temporarily in all schools, teacher migration rates fell dramatically to much lower levels than before, most sharply in schools with large numbers of poor students.

But like other US publishing groups, the firm is suffering from a steep decline in print advertising revenue, falling circulation and the migration of readers to free news online.

The area is also part of the migration route of Monarch butterflies, which congregate in the fall at Point Pelee before making their way over Lake Erie enroute to central Mexico.

People inevitably remember the fall of the Berlin Wall, which heralded the dissolution of the Soviet Union — even though Tiananmen Square came first (just months earlier, in Jun - 1989), basically forcing an acceleration of China's rural - urban migration & its transition to a capitalist economy (thereby relegating communism to a mere system of political control).

In the rural areas prices keep on falling because of migration to the cities and demographic developments.

Unable to prevent an estimated $ 5 million to $ 10 million worth of bird damage each fall to a sunflower crop which fetches between $ 330 million and $ 500 million per year, Wildlife Services staff theorized in 1994 that they might accomplish more by poisoning the birds as they migrate north each spring, so that fewer would join the fall migrations southward.

August 30: Hawk Hill The views are always sensational from this promontory, but in late August you will also have the chance to see some of the early raptorial migrants in the fall migration, flapping their way over the Headlands.

Every year at the start of Fall more than 60 % of the North Pacific Humpback Whale population will begin their migration from Alaska to Hawaii, with many of them choosing to stay in the waters off of Maui during their visit.

Sooty shearwaters breed on islands near New Zealand, Australia and Chile during September and October before following a figure - 8 migration pattern through the Northern Hemisphere and then southward again — passing through Monterey Bay in summer and early fall to feed.

With tens of thousands of raptors counted during the fall migration, it's the largest flight of its kind in the western U.S.!

Bird watchers enjoy fall shorebird migrations and growing populations of wintering birds in the estuaries and woodlands.

Generally we're talking about the raptor migration through the Marin Headlands each fall, the largest in the Pacific states.

Fall: Fall migration is a great time to view spectacular flocks of shorebirds with numbers peaking in September as they fly south to wintering areas.

Warrnambool is surrounded by rivers, with a short drive bringing visitors to the Hopkins Falls for the amazing annual migration from the Coral Sea of short - finned eels who negotiate the falls in their millFalls for the amazing annual migration from the Coral Sea of short - finned eels who negotiate the falls in their millfalls in their millions.

San Francisco, CA — More than 30,000 birds of prey — hawks, eagles, falcons, and vultures — pass over the Marin Headlands each fall in California's greatest raptor migration.

Overall, more than 1,500 volunteers have participated in the GGRO's fall raptor migration monitoring since the organization's inception in the early 1980s.

Below, match up your Myers - Briggs personality type to a bird of prey observed during the fall migration over Hawk Hill in the Marin Headlands (if you don't know your Myers - Briggs type, you can find many versions of the test on the Internet).

After researching San Francisco in the fall of 2011, Lin developed a series of site - specific performances that explore the urban histories of migration and immigration, with particular focus on their political implications.

Repeat visitors are rewarded with new experiences and perspectives, from the evolving work and ever - changing roster of artists, to the explosion of wildflowers in the spring and the raptor migration in the fall.

A recent study by David Mizrahi of New Jersey Audubon and Jeff Buler of the University of Delaware, revealed that the Great Cypress Swamp is one of the two most important stopover sites in Delaware for neotropical migratory songbirds during the spring and fall migrations.

The number of monarchs that completed the largest and most arduous migration this fall, from the northern United States and Canada to a mountainside forest in Mexico, dropped precipitously, apparently to the lowest level yet recorded.

They undertake lengthy migrations up and down the coast in summer and fall.

Their annual migration is one of the most awe - inspiring on Earth: Each fall, millions of these striking black - and - orange butterflies take flight on a 3,000 - mile journey across the U.S. and Canada to wintering grounds in Mexico's Sierra Madre mountains.