Sentences with phrase «many bird and bat»

A suite of studies are addressing the distribution of birds and bats on the Outer Continental Shelf.

Also, evolutionary theory does state animals sharing a certain characteristic can possess a similarity without sharing an immediate common ancestor like a bird and bat wing.

The giants swing their triple arms or poise, frozen like hazmat signs, on every hill: alien prayer wheels of unending noise or monuments to birds and bats they kill; Shivas, whose dance preserves us and destroys a landscape that no longer can stand still.

«I unexpectedly found the creatures — all manner of birds and bats — washed up along the shoreline of Lake Natron in Northern Tanzania.

Birds and bats are important seed dispersers, eating desert fruits during the wet season and spreading their seeds through droppings.

And in fact, birds and bats, whose ability to fly helps them escape from predators, do have particularly long lives.

Now a doctoral student in biodiversity management at the U.K.'s University of Kent, he is cataloging Iwokrama's iconic and bizarre species, including jaguars, giant anteaters, anacondas, and scads of birds and bats.

Iwokrama offered an ideal opportunity to survey mammals, birds and bats in both unlogged and selectively logged areas, to see if reduced - impact logging put a dent in biodiversity.

The longer - lived animals are also the smarter ones, or the bigger ones, or the ones like birds and bats that evolved adaptations such as wings to make their lives safer.

Insects are in turn a vital food source for fish, river birds and bats, so where there are healthy insect populations these other species also benefit.

Ecologists can reveal the frequency of bird and bat deaths in wind turbines, the traffic of birds around airports and the potential for distribution of disease and disease vectors.

Nectar is a primary food source for many animals but a few, including hummingbirds, honey eaters and sun birds and bats, possess mouthparts specifically designed to slurp up the sweet liquid found in flowers.

There also are concerns about bird and bat fatalities with wind technology, although there may be radar systems that can slow wind turbines as birds approach.

Both the larvae and the fully formed moths are an important food resource for birds and bats.

He's hopeful that other birds and bats that feast on insects in the air and on the trees near the river will become stronger as well.

To make sure that flying pollinators such as insects, birds and bats come to the flowers to pick up pollen, plants evolved special organs, the nectaries, to attract and reward the animals.

In addition to primates, birds and bats are the major animal groups that are responsible for seed dispersal,» says behavioral ecologist Heymann.

One prominent example of convergence is the formation of wings in birds and bats.

Birds and bats then spread the seeds and pollen of these remarkable plants.

THE dragons in the Harry Potter movies fly using wings made from modified forelimbs, just as birds and bats do.

Birds and bats are introducing a surprising number of trees into new forests, a new study published in the journal PLOS ONE shows.

Birds and bats both fly, but they evolved their wings separately.

This virtually ensures that small birds and bats are removed and / or eaten.

«On the largest turbines, researchers continue to use an undersized 75 - meter search radius, even though the much larger turbines are known to catapult birds and bats much further from turbine towers.

Bees, birds and bats make a huge contribution to the high yields produced by coffee farmers around Mount Kilimanjaro — an example of how biodiversity can pay off.

What is the same about a bird and a bat?

Take advantage of the Halloween hysteria to teach students the different characteristics of birds and bats with an Interactive Read Aloud of Stellaluna by Janell Cannon.

~ PETA convinced Mobil, Texaco, Pennzoil, Shell, and other oil companies to cover their exhaust stacks after showing how millions of birds and bats became trapped in the shafts and were burned alive.

A variety of activities can be enjoyed at the ranch, from fishing in the nearby lake, paddleboating, and clay target shooting to bird and bat watching, jeep tours of the area to view the countryside and wildlife.

Species that reached the islands were aerial, such as birds and bats, or rafted across the water on debris and other material.

There are several caves to visit, frolic in white sand beaches, bird and bat watch, or observe giant clams, taklobo, being raised in protected beds.

There is also a wildlife pond and bird and bat boxes.

The authors noted that one area, the 1,600 - acre Tiputini Biodiversity Station, on the northern edge of the park, has unparalleled peaks of diversity in reptiles, amphibians, insects, birds and bats.

Even more absurd and outrageous, the same Obama USFWS has given wind turbine companies permits to kill hundreds of bald and golden eagles — and thousands of raptors, other birds and bats, many of them threatened or endangered — every year for the next 30 years.

Tip o» the hat to M. Kay Barton Robert Johns — March 5, 2015 — American Bird Conservancy American Bird Conservancy (ABC) has called on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to institute a new system of pre-construction risk assessment and bird and bat mortality data collection in connection with hundreds of thousands of -LSB-...]

(It appears supporting industrial - scale wind turbines that kill birds and bats did not deter the Ontario Liberal government from appointing Ms. Saxe as commissioner of the environment.)

The claim of no harm to birds and bats is a broken promise.

So all industrial wind farms do is; destroy pristine landscapes, kill birds and bats and make rent - seeking corporatists very rich.

«Each year the slaughter to millions and millions of birds and bats is being concealed by the wind industry and America's Interior Department.»

Bird lovers have long criticized the number of birds and bats killed by wind turbines and the proposition of humongous facilities makes conservation groups nervous.

We've seen the reports of turbines catching fire and the reports of bird and bat kills.

And they kill birds and bats.

I believe if we're going to invest in greentard energy schemes at least solar doesn't chop birds and bats up.

Wind turbine installations butcher millions of birds and bats annually, but are exempt from Endangered Species Act fines and penalties.

A recent National Wind Coordinating Committee (NWCC) review of peer - reviewed research found evidence of bird and bat deaths from collisions with wind turbines and due to changes in air pressure caused by the spinning turbines, as well as from habitat disruption.

Birds and Bats might disagree — but there's more, courtesy of Howard Hayden Howard is emeritus prof of physics at U Conn..

It's human nature, this ongoing collision course that for several decades now has pitted North America's bird and bat lovers against the still somewhat - fledgling — but rapidly growing — wind industry.

Populations of wild bees and other pollinating species, including butterflies and moths, birds and bats, are being pushed to extinction at startling rates.

PD == That's no good — too many birds and bats are killed Siri: Is that something we can deal with?

Heritage is committed to minimizing the impact of our activities on bird and bat populations by properly planning and siting our wind farms, conducting preconstruction use surveys and post-construction mortality surveys, using only state of the art technology and design, utilizing effective best management practices, and implementing adaptive management.