Sentences with phrase «about migratory»

The gathering helped promote knowledge and education about migratory birds, their delicate habitats, and the threats they face.

Come to IMBD and learn more about migratory birds and enjoy some pristine habitat that has already been preserved for future generations of both birds and people!

The story teaches about the migratory behaviors of Canada geese and the urban problems of storm water management — in a format suitable for elementary teaching.

All of which means that story number 3 about migratory birds being the major cause of the spread of avian flu is TOTALL... Y BOGUS.

It might, for example, have more to tell us about the migratory history of our species than about our evolution.

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In March 2006, I posted about the Northwest Shade Coffee Campaign, a Seattle Audubon Society project whose mission is «to protect habitat for wintering neo-tropical migratory birds in Latin America and the Caribbean by increasing consumer demand for shade - grown coffee,»...

«There's nothing to worry about,» said Doug Taron, the curator of biology at Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum and an administrator with the International Migratory Dragonfly Partnership.

In an attempt to learn more about dragonfly migration, the US Forest Service's Wings Across the Americas program has assembled a group of dragonfly experts, nongovernmental organizations, academic institutions, and federal agencies and formed the Migratory Dragonfly Partnership (MDP).

The lands that were lost were also breeding grounds for marine mammals, brown pelicans, turtles, and fish, as well as migratory species such as redhead ducks.Overall, about 20 % of the local marshes were permanently overrun by water as a result of the storm.

Ornithologist Eduardo Inigo - Elias, senior research associate with the conservation science program at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, talks about the challenges of studying migratory birds and how improved relations between the U.S. and Cuba will help his field

First though Eduardo Inigo - Elias will talk to us about the challenges of studying migratory birds and the potential beneficial effects in his field of the thawing of the U.S. relationship with Cuba.

Mirsky: As somebody who really studies migratory birds just what one thing maybe just pops to the top of your head that still after all of these years just amazes you about the physical achievement of some of these creatures?

(The most recent migratory «pulse» ended about 5,000 years ago.)

Yet despite this, little was known about the fish's migratory movements.

Steve: Talk about why the park is so important for migratory birds.

An international team of researchers have now found an important piece of the puzzle: migratory birds about to fly to South America from the Arctic harbor small plant parts in their feathers.

They found a total of 23 plant fragments that were trapped in the feathers of long - distance migratory birds about to leave for South America.

Researchers have long known that migratory birds receive information about magnetic fields from a part of their upper beak called the magnetite receptor, which contains iron - based magnetic crystals.

By itself, the migratory locust is about as harmless as a grasshopper.

Intended for use by land managers, policy makers, restoration practitioners and researchers, this report raises awareness about the importance of California overwintering sites in conserving monarch butterflies and their migratory phenomenon in the West.

Map of sites and postulated migratory pathways associated with modern humans dispersing across Asia during the Late Pleistocene (about 126,000 — 5,000 years ago)

«Migratory species... they're species that move long distances and are exposed to many threats, and they say something about the general state of landscape at a large scale because they integrate space so well,» said Henry.

Then provide each group with a world map and invite each member to show on the map the migratory pattern of the animal s / he learned about.

The student should learn as much as possible about that animal's migratory patterns.

More about Education of Migratory Children

The longest recorded migratory mule deer herd in the world travels about 150 miles (241 kilometers) from the Red Desert in southwest Wyoming to...

Learn about Aboriginal culture from traditional owners the Bininj / Mungguy people, take in thundering waterfalls and witness millions of migratory birds among the wetlands.

This celebration of migratory birds spans from South America to Canada, and enables thousands of people to learn about migrations and why these birds are so special.

To learn more about International Migratory Bird Day festivities across the globe and for more information about specific species and activities, check out www.birdday.org.

Long - term behavior studies on marked animals provide information about reproductive behavior as well as migratory and feeding patterns.

A Palo Verde National Park River Tour takes about 2 hours and you can see river banks and areas with the most diverse animals such as howler monkeys and white facemonkeys, crocodiles, a variety of migratory birds and Iguanas and more.

In his introduction, he explains that his interest in birds first occurred during his childhood when he observed migratory birds in Kansas and then later on when he learned more about a bird's significance in Darwin's theory of evolution.

Beginning with the definition of the highway as an element of connection between the migratory flows moving from the periphery towards the city, Indian Highway speaks about technological development, the economic boom and the growing global centrality of this subcontinent in the world of the arts since the 1990s.

Integrating ideas about regeneration and transformation in art, «Shaping Time» reflects on the aesthetic appreciation of nature and questions about loss, fading, contemplation, and migratory processes in art.

In the tropics is wet and dry - / - in subtropics and temperate climates changes four time a year, WITH EVERY season = migratory birds can tell you that; because they know much more about climate than all the Warmist foot - solders and all climate skeptics combined — on the polar caps climates change twice a year.

The wide range depends on the extent of climate and how much habitat is lost, but researchers say the most likely range of extinctions is between 600 and 900 species, meaning about 10 - 14 percent of tropical birds, excluding migratory species.

Canada's Boreal Forest is also the reservoir for a large fraction of North America's clean, fresh water, home to about 5 billion migratory birds, and some of the largest remaining populations of caribou, moose, bear and wolves on the planet.

Racano's complaints include what effect the turbines» vibrations may have on fish, whales and sharks, and he worries about seabirds that can be killed after hitting the turbines» blades or have their migratory patterns disrupted.

Despite reports about the devastating impacts of oil palm expansion on forests and indigenous peoples, the Peruvian government continues to promote oil palm development, supposedly as a viable economic alternative in the fight against drug trafficking, migratory agriculture, and poverty.

How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate is a very child friendly, easy - to - read book that helps readers better understand the climate crisis by giving solid evidence, such as bird migratory patterns and the melting icecaps, to explain what is happening.

The arctic summer range is also forecast to contract, raising questions about how this migratory bird will adjust to the disruption in both seasons.

More about birds around the world: Rare Birds Raise Secret Brood in Birmingham Map of Bird Habitats Threatened by BP Oil Spill Bird Protection Clashes with Bride Prospects in India 17 % of North American Birds Facing Rapid Decline Woodland Birds Losing Out to Farmland Birds as Australian Rivers Dry Up Madagascar Bird Declared Extinct Bird Spotted Just Twice in 139 Years Found Breeding in Northeastern Afghanistan (UPDATED) 7 Weird and Wacky Endangered Birds Peace Could Prove Problematic For Migratory Birds

Newly available shipping lanes through the Northwest Passage would greatly shorten the trip between Europe and East Asia, but would likely cross the migratory route of any right whales that occupy the region.It's vital that we know about right whales in this area in order to effectively avoid ship strikes on what could be a quite fragile population.

He says that the photographs provide testimony about the disappearance of migratory birds in Europe, because of the use of chemicals in agriculture.

Confronted by the grave warnings thus issuing from courts of great pan-European authority, citizens of countries whose Muslim population is increasing very rapidly by immigration and a relatively high birthrate may ask themselves whether it is prudent, or just to the children and grandchildren of everyone in their country, to permit any further migratory increase in that population, or even to accept the presence of immigrant non-citizen Muslims without deliberating seriously about a possible reversal — humane and financially compensated for and incentivised — of the inflow.