Sentences with phrase «as breeding grounds»

Sandy beaches serve as breeding grounds for rare species while supporting local tourism economies.

Watersheds throughout Northern Vancouver Island provide critical habitat to many species, serving as breeding grounds and nurseries, foraging grounds, and providing refuge from predators and the elements.

Online dating and meet - up sites are all known as breeding grounds for nefarious individuals.

Kitchen sinks are notoriously known as breeding grounds for harmful bacteria that can make you sick, so save that water for washing dishes.

Dense star clusters may serve as breeding grounds for successive generations of black hole mergers, resulting in gargantuan holes, generating gravitational waves that researchers hope to detect.

«Social media must therefore not be viewed simply as breeding grounds for weight stigma, but also as encouraging and supportive environments.»

«They could serve as breeding grounds and seed banks for many animal and plant species that otherwise may be unable to find habitat due to climate change.»

The flies and fungi use the same plants as breeding grounds and eat the same foods.

Part of the picture is the familiar Tocquevillian claim that liberal egalitarianism generates pervasive suspicion and distrust of competing associations and institutions, which come to be perceived as breeding grounds of special privilege.

Not exact matches

If Madrasahs are breeding grounds for terrorism, then its no differentwhen it comes down to child molestation as reported at no less than 25 different occasions from abbots, monasteries and churches around the world in the past decade.

As for the American birds reported on by Mr. Gouk, Dr. Aldrich said they had been banded and released over the past few years from breeding grounds along the Arctic coast of Alaska and the Yukon Delta.

We were sitting two seats below Monaco fans sitting laughing and taking the piss, and no one seemed to think that that's wrong, I've been to away grounds to watch Arsenal sat in the home team stand and respectfully stay quiets if we score, as a punch in the mouth often offends, I'm amazed at our home games, so many people who don't even speak English and seem to treat the game as a Sunday afternoon tea party, where are the old Arsenal fans born and bred Arsenal, I'm all for a multi cultural look but let's not lose anyone in the race to become global.

LINCOLN — Each March, as spring approaches and birds begin their annual migration to New England breeding and nesting grounds, hundreds of people gather in their own seasonal rite, at the Mass Audubon Birders Meeting.

With US going on rampage around the world and leaving cesspools and terrorist - breeding grounds (just this week we had suicide bomber in Manchester, self - described in past as «fighter against Gaddafi» and later «against Assad») in place of orderly and even relatively prosperous countries you can't really blame NK for wanting to have a proper deterrent against same fate.

Researchers in Russia investigated the map issue in a past study by capturing Eurasian reed warblers on the Baltic Sea as they flew northeast towards their breeding grounds near Saint Petersburg.

Just as bacterial cultures flourish in an agar - filled petri dish, laboratories are ideal breeding grounds for close friendships.

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.

In 2011, as part of a reintroduction program, captive - bred ibises following an ultralight aircraft to their wintering grounds arranged themselves in the shape of a V. Data loggers on their backs captured every position and wing flap, yielding the most compelling experimental evidence yet that birds exploit the aerodynamics of the familiar formation to conserve energy.

As oil slicks continue to lap at the pelicans» breeding grounds in coastal Louisiana, armies of wildlife rehabilitators are frantically trying to catch and scrub the contaminated birds clean.

In order for the shorebirds known as red knots to survive their annual migration from the Southern Hemisphere to the species» Arctic breeding grounds, they rely on a series of site along the way to provide enough food for their stay and to fuel their onward flight.

Unfortunately, as monitoring efforts continue, we may see these pretty patterns cut short: warming temperatures could deplete phytoplankton populations, which means less fish, squid, and krill for the birds to feast on, and could affect whether sooty shearwaters have enough energy to make it back to their New Zealand breeding grounds.

Seasonality of bird migration is shifting in response to climate change and, as a result, birds are arriving at their northern breeding grounds earlier in the spring.

44,000 Average distance, in miles, traveled each year by Arctic terns as they make the round - trip between their summer breeding grounds in Greenland and Iceland and their winter home in Antarctica.

Bar - headed geese travel from Indian wintering grounds and high Asian breeding grounds in China and Mongolia, which means that they have to cross the Himalayan Mountains en route while flying as high as 7,290 m (23,917 ft).

Plus, Charles Bishop discusses the «roller - coaster» flight strategy of bar - headed geese as they migrate across the Himalayas between their breeding and wintering grounds.

Ayala believes that this may have happened as recently as 10,000 years ago, when humans settled down and started farming; at that time, irrigation and huts would have created ideal breeding grounds for mosquitoes to help the parasites spread.

Researchers determined the whales» current population numbers by comparing photographic shots of humpbacks in their North Pacific feeding grounds (around the Pacific Rim from California to Kamchatka) to images taken of the whales in their southern, tropical breeding areas — some as far as 3000 miles away.

But resistance - breeding grounds like Chinese pig farms or sewage pipes from pharmaceutical companies present yet another battleground and call for a strategy that needs to be innovative as well as multifaceted.

TUESDAY, April 25, 2017 (HealthDay News)-- You might think of public restrooms as scary breeding grounds for germs, but two everyday items can spread colds and the flu as fast as a bathroom doorknob.

Unclean brushes are breeding grounds for bacteria and makeup residues impact their performance as well.

However, you need to be cautious when using chat rooms as these are also breeding grounds for people who are looking for online fraud victims.

Did You Know: Each spring, residents and visitors gather for the Crane Watch Festival to observe hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes as they travel north to their breeding grounds.

Heated, humidified homes can also be terrific breeding grounds for fleas, as well as a place of refuge for flea - carrying rodents.

Relatively tight, confined or small spaces such as veterinary offices, boarding kennels and animal shelters are ideal breeding grounds for passing the disease around.

Do take note that this is not really a flea medicine for cats and kittens but rather as a natural solution that you spray onto various surfaces in your home which you suspect might be breeding grounds and hiding places of fleas.

(Red includes all shades of sable, lemon or orange) or tricolour (Black and white with reddish tan points) As of 11 November 2011, the colors not listed in the breed standard [3] are grounds for disqualification in competitions.

We are attempting to preserve the breeding grounds for fish, crab, and conch as well as protect our blue holes and mangrove areas.

The property makes a critical contribution to the conservation of the natural values within the Great Rift Valley, as an integral part of the most important route of the African - Eurasian flyway system where billions of birds are found to travel from northern breeding grounds to African wintering places.

These beaches are famous as sea turtle breeding grounds and under the shade of trees further up the shore we find deep craters gouged out by the patient effort of scaled flippers.

Gray and Humpback whales migrate through the coastal waters here, usually putting on amazing shows as they traverse back forth from their breeding grounds.

The second largest island, Hon Bay Canh, has turtle breeding grounds, with a chance to see as many as 20 - 30 turtles nesting from April to September.

Seabirds, including the western gulls, bald eagles, pigeon guillemots, and Scripps's murrelets use the islands as well for shelter and breeding grounds.

Seabirds, including the western gulls, bald eagles, pigeon guillemonts, and Scripps's murrelets use the islands as well for shelter and breeding grounds.

The gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus), [1] also known as the grey whale, [3] gray back whale, Pacific gray whale, or California gray whale [4] is a baleen whale that migrates between feeding and breeding grounds yearly.

These fragile and endangered coral reefs act as key feeding and breeding grounds for a myriad of marine life and provide essential shoreline protection.

In fact, he said, they were «almost in captivity, as their protected breeding grounds are nearby and they love the safe lagoon where they always have plenty of food.»

There are regularly sights of pods of dolphin, schools of surface fish such as Tuna and Mackerel and are fortunate enough to see the occasional Humpback mother and calf returning from their breeding grounds in the north.

Australia's eastern seaboard is affectionately known as the Humpback Highway because it's the route whales take when shuttling between their feeding and breeding grounds.

Some species of deep sea stony corals form complex structures that provide similar — although not identical — ecosystem services as shallow tropical reefs: habitat for abundant and diverse associated fauna, commercial fish breeding grounds, and potential medicines for human use.

Given that tagging studies have shown that the half - ton tuna can roam the full span of the Atlantic in seeking breeding and feeding grounds, the European position is widely seen by fisheries specialists as sending the fabled species spiraling further toward outright collapse.