Sentences with phrase «roost rittenhouse»

They used to roost and nest in such dense flocks that they broke branches and produced thick layers of dung in large areas.

Logging not only removes roost trees, but also opens up the forest canopy.

If the roost sites are destroyed through these activities, Monarch populations are likely to drop precipitously.

So when you turn off appliances, you can see your happy chickens come home to roost.

That may be because females form close associations with their roost mates and may forage near familiar individuals, while males often roost alone or in small bachelor colonies and may be less familiar with others foraging nearby.

They'll roost in the wetlands during the day and they fly out to agricultural fields — primarily flooded rice fields in California — at night.

The journeys included four flights of about 15 kilometers back to the birds» roost and 11 flights roaming freely around their home base outside Budapest.

A charismatic owl iconic to Pacific Coast forests is no longer ruling the roost, and scientists now have another tool for understanding its decline.

These structures are especially important in a crowded forest, allowing the pitcher plant to stand out among dense vegetation that otherwise masks the potential roost.

The structure's reverberations enable the bats to distinguish this roost - friendly pitcher plant from other closely related plants that lack the reflective piece.

As the bats search for a place to roost, the structure acts as an acoustic flag, bouncing back the ultrasonic calls the bats emit to navigate (a process known as echolocation) and waving the bats down to a comfortable home.

So how did modern birds come to rule the roost?

Nepenthes hemslayana is a Paleotropic carnivorous pitcher plant that provides a safe place for bats to roost; it's cool and free of parasites and other bats.

A space - age relic comes to rest in a sheltered roost after a relentless assault by winged marauders

When a hungry bat can't find a meal for a night, the accomplished blood seeker may get a bit of blood from a luckier roost mate.

In captivity at least, a vampire will help a starving roost mate who's not a relative.

Talk about chickens coming home to roost.

But with the economy in a state of collapse, and long - neglected problems with energy, climate, health and infrastructure coming home to roost, these are extraordinary times, and they have prompted extraordinary action.

They also roost in urbanized areas such as New York City and Chicago where they form large, noisy flocks that can be heard for great distances.

Mowing phragmites, a tall and sturdy invasive grass, also dispersed a host of bird species that liked to roost in the grass, Allan said.

After letting the bats experience sundown at a site near their typical roost, the team waited until after midnight (when polarized light was no longer visible in the sky), transported the animals to two sites between 20 and 25 kilometers from the roost, strapped radio tracking devices to them, and then released them.

The researchers suspected that a bird roost near a mosquito nursery might increase the West Nile virus risk to people living nearby.

«Instead, we found that the presence of a communal bird roost actually decreased West Nile virus risk,» Allan said.

The researchers counted the largest numbers of vultures in late afternoon, but location mattered: Power plants near areas where the vultures tended to roost had more visitors in the early morning and late afternoon, whereas power plants near feeding sites had more at midday.

• Extra: In this activity you looked at the general lifestyle of birds, but there are many aspects that go into birds» lifestyles, such as where they nest, where they roost and how they get food.

But homing pigeons can also build collective knowledge banks, behavioral biologists have discovered, at least when it comes to finding their way back to the roost.

Stony Brook evolutionary biologist Liliana Dávalos (in tree) and Miguel Núñez Novas from the Museum of Natural History in Santo Domingo examine a bat roost in the Dominican Republic.

Another, the lesser flat - headed bat, is so tiny that it can roost inside the hollow spaces inside bamboo stems.

Kunz concludes that such cooperative behaviour is probably common in bats that roost in colonies.

Since the bats hunt by night and the birds only roost by day, the capture must happen mid-flight, they argue in the 7 August issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The authors suggest that the bat hosts, which roost in trees, may have been exposed to the same mosquito vectors that transfer the parasites between the tree - dwelling rodent hosts.

Though many species of bats roost in groups, vampire bats are unique in their sharing of blood meals and in their propensity for social grooming.

Subsequent field surveys of more than 16 square miles of Big Woods forest around the area in which observers initially saw the bird failed to turn up any occupied roost holes.

Male bats roost alone and defend their mating territory.

Female vampire bats usually roost together in small groups of eight to 12.

It would also help me cull the flock of equally repulsive, unwanted bald - headed Chicago penguins that roost in my backyard every winter.

Small to medium - sized enterprises, or SMEs, rule the roost in the biological job market.

The long digits on both species» feet suggest that they were strong climbers and may have even been able to roost while hanging beneath limbs or on rocks, as modern - day bats do.

These megabats leave the roost about an hour after sunset and will often fly up to forty miles at night to forage for figs, mangoes, bananas, and other ripe fruit.

Insect - eating bats often roost in houses, and people may encounter the animals more frequently as settlements push deeper into previously wild areas.

Nixon's good friend and Cuomo political foe Mayor de Blasio said the deal is a result of «the chickens have come home to roost, with more and more progressive energy over the past few years.»

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During a wide - ranging speech to the chamber, Gibson didn't mention that those huge increases in local electricity rates he was fighting to rescind had come home to roost in consumer bills this month.

Those changes will finally come home to roost next week, when voters in Lloyd, Plattekill and Marlborough get to decide who will represent them in the new District 9 and District 10.

Much as I like his effect on the internal manouvres of Labour I suspect that Corbyn's idea of a Federal republic is one where the Labour party rules the roost in every province.

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«There is substantial reason to believe that multimillionaire Chris Collins has shamelessly and unapologetically abused his position to enrich himself and his Republican colleagues, and now the chickens are coming home to roost,» the DCCC spokesman Evan Lukaske said.

Since he became leader he's encountered, possibly for the first time, those who disagree, sometimes fundamentally, with his positions and undergone scrutiny from the media; at the risk of mixing metaphors he's been found out and the chickens are coming home to roost.

Brown's economic chickens are coming home to roost.

As Clio Chang writes in The New Republic, «Cuomo's chickens are coming home to roost.»