Sentences with phrase «along migration routes»

Many of these species have benefited from European Union legislation preventing them from being hunted in their wintering and breeding sites, as well as improvements in agricultural land quality, giving them access to better forage along their migration routes.

Unlike gray whales, which generally make a beeline to Alaska, humpbacks slowly move north after giving birth in Mexico and Central America, feeding all along their migration route, Schramm said.

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By sequencing the genomes of 7 hunter - gatherers excavated across Scandinavia and dated to be 9,500 - 6,000 years old, the researchers found that migrations into the Scandinavian peninsula most likely followed two routes; one from central Europe and one from the Northeast along the Norwegian Atlantic Coast.

Existing evidence supports the possibilities of a single trans - Saharan migration, many migrations along one route, or multiple migrations along several different routes.

The AEWA is an agreement to protect waterfowl along their entire migration route between Africa and Eurasia.

They simulated how it would have felt — magnetically speaking — for the eels to have been in four different locations along their larval migration route from the Sargasso to Europe.

Archaeologists are finding discoidal cores all along the Pacific coast — the putative migration route for the first Americans.

The aim of this project is to reduce deaths of protected birds along the Via Aristoteles, an important migration route in western Bulgaria.

Using sophisticated models of weather and human movement patterns, the analysis predicts the worm's entry later this year, accomplished either by its independent migration or as it hitches rides along trade routes.

One of the most stirring spectacles of spring migration is the American Golden - Plover's northward migration through the Midwest, en route to breeding grounds along the Arctic Ocean's broad coastal plain.

Wind farms are now encroaching into critical habitats of the Peregrine Falcon, Bald Eagles, Golden Eagle, Spotted Owls, Ferruginous Hawks, Great Gray Owl and along primary migration routes of all bird species.

The Beaufort's coastline along the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, meanwhile, is designated as critical habitat for that threatened species and is also a migration route for bowhead whales.