Sentences with phrase «bird habitat on»

Still, it isn't as easy as saying, «That's it, clear all the people out and don't let them back,» since the human race made the mess, we need to help clean it up — the ani would eventually take over most or all of the bird habitat on this island if left unchecked, and that wouldn't do anybody any good.

Mass Audubon and Three Bays Preservation are seeking permits to restore coastal bird habitat on Dead Neck Sampsons Island by renourishing important nesting areas on the island.

Our habitat restoration work includes unique experience creating grassland bird habitat on recently closed landfills.

Not exact matches

The intersection of her research on habitat use by migratory birds and her love of coffee prompted her to explore coffee sustainability issues.

This hidden away natural habitat on the backside of our property has oak, cedar and Douglas fir trees, wild edible greens (including Miners Lettuce as featured in the recipe below), wild strawberries, Indian plums, wild flowers, and is a popular haven for the local wildlife including elk, deer, coyote, bobcat, and a wide variety of birds.

The «Know Your Coffee Birds» series profiles bird species that are often found on shade coffee farms, having adapted to these altered habitats.

The 209 hectares of rice fields on IRRI's experiment farm form a mosaic patchwork of different crop stages and varying degrees of wetland habitats, which make them a bird Keeping a healthy rice ecosystem is a target for IRRI on the farm.

The emphasis of the show was on standards that preserve bird habitat.

I also wrote about our visit, focusing more on the birds and habitat, at my other site Net Results, and about a dragonfly survey we did there on Urban Dragon Hunters.

There, you can read about Hispaniola's great biodiversity, including 30 endemic bird species; the importance of the island to birds that winter and migrate through the West Indies and breed in North America; and the critical role of shade coffee in preserving habitat on an island with a very high level of deforestation.

These fees go to support bird conservation research and education, with an emphasis on coffee as bird habitat....

Reasons for the higher number and species diversity of birds and bird territories on organic farms include better breeding habitats and better food conditions.

A three - year study in Denmark concentrated on the non-crop habitats, such as hedgerows, of conventional and organic farms and their effects on bird populations.

we are about to look in on an exceedingly rare bird, Steve Timmons, in his natural habitat.

Results led directly to control activities focusing on protection of habitat for grassland nesting birds.

The birds, pollinators, land mammals, and marine mammals in Massachusetts have already started feeling the effects of climate change on their habitats and life cycles.

Mass Audubon and Three Bays Preservation are dedicated to restoring habitat on the island to continue protection to these vulnerable coastal bird species.

Jeff is a Field Ornithologist at Mass Audubon, where he focuses on working landscapes and the habitat management of forest birds, including the coordination of Mass Audubon's Foresters for the Birds probirds, including the coordination of Mass Audubon's Foresters for the Birds proBirds program.

Restoring habitat on the island will advance our objectives in bird conservation.

Jeff is a Field Ornithologist at Mass Audubon, where he focuses on working landscapes and the habitat management of forest birds.

Our technical review and assessment of the Cape Wind DEIS primarily focused on the project's impacts on birds and their habitat.

The Academy has a large number of Bailey's photographs in their Archives taken on his trips all over the United States and Canada with the intention of recording a variety of species of birds in their natural habitat.

This year's to - do lists include (depending on the sanctuary) removing invasive species; preparing garden beds to attract a variety of visitors, from birds and butterflies to people; cleaning nature play areas; restoring habitats; maintaining trails; and improving entrance areas.

And the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a few years ago in its fourth assessment in 2007, said to the Europeans — but it could have been to the Americans for that matter in a different context — Europeans if you care for your songbirds, as Europeans really do, look to Africa and how African habitats are doing: 84 percent of the migratory birds in the world are vulnerable to climate change.

Unlike many bird species that are now extinct on the Earth's small islands, the Eastern Bluebird and the Hispaniolan Crossbill disappeared long before the first people arrived, uncoupling their extinction from human actions, such as the introduction of new predators and habitat loss for agricultural use.

Even without avian diseases and climate change, the honeycreepers still face threats from habitat loss, introduced predators and competition with non-native birds (some of whom, such as the Japanese bush - warbler, are thriving on the plateau, the study finds).

Audubon pushed to ensure that the guidelines address habitat fragmentation, one of the biggest potential impacts of wind development on birds.

A Pacific Northwest housing boom is encroaching on songbird habitat, forcing the birds to flee their homes — and their mates.

Using models that replicated the colouration of male and female wall lizards found on the Greek islands of Skopelos and Syros, they found that the male lizard models were less well camouflaged against their habitat and more likely to fall prey to bird attacks.

This region features unique, highly diverse arid and semi-arid habitats inhabited by rare and endangered plants and animals, and provides a vital migratory stopping point for many species of birds and animals on their journey across the continent.

These odd birds spy on how many eggs tits lay; the more eggs, the better the habitat.

One of the management activities that the park is really focusing on is especially on these woodlands, of restoring the forest floor and make sure that leaves remain, not raking them up and when branches fall, letting them remain in place so that they could decompose, this again because it's going to restore the whole forest system and also it's good foraging habitat for all these wild birds we are seeing here, kicking through the underbrush and kicking through the leaves looking for worms and other insects and other invertebrates.

It may have been found in the nick of time: the bird's habitat is threatened by deforestation and Ridgely and others have now launched a campaign to raise enough money to buy the land on which the bird lives.

The agency will publish a draft critical - habitat proposal in May and will make its final decision on the bird's threatened status by the end of the year.

Enduring swarms of biting black flies, numerous flat tires, and even a night spent stranded in the woods with a broken ATV, they also collected a variety of data on habitats where the birds nested, including vegetation density, spruce and fir cone production, and red squirrel abundance.

The bald eagle was nearly extinct in the continental U.S. by the late 20th century, but the population has since stabilized, primarily due to habitat protection and a ban on DDT, an insecticide that weakened the birds» eggs so much that the eagles could not produce viable offspring.

Our destination is the Gulf of Nicoya on Costa Rica's Pacific coast, where our star lodge, set in a prime bird and wildlife habitat, is reserved exclusively for your stargazing and recreational pleasure.

Animals such as white - tailed deer, the Florida panther and migratory birds that depend on native vegetation, such as mangrove, for food and shelter are deprived of that habitat.

Nest site preferences in birds evolve over time based upon nest survival rates in different habitats, and may be confounded by the novel cues introduced by non-native plants,» adds Anna Chalfoun of the University of Wyoming, an expert on wildlife - habitat relationships.

The work relies on and complements the work of Benkman, who has spent his career, the past 30 to 40 years, studying these birds and their habitats.

The results, published in Ecology Letters, not only offer hope to farmers battling the beetle, but also provide an incentive to protect wildlife habitat: the more forest grew on and near a coffee farm, the more birds the farm had, and the lower its infestation rates were.

Your tour price also includes three daytime excursions: A day excursion to a macaw sanctuary; from the lodge & rsquo; s private pier, we set out on a half - day boat tour along the Gulf of Nicoya, visiting a mangrove habitat that & rsquo; s home to many exotic water birds; and we also make a short overland journey to a spectacular lookout point at sunset.

Albert's towhee, an inconspicuous little brown bird, looked to be a good candidate for extinction 50 years ago: it depended on the moist strips along desert streams for habitat, and irrigation, ranching and urbanisation were rapidly destroying its homes.

In an attempt to settle the potential conflict over valuable land before the bird was put on the endangered list, the various groups of conservationists and developers tried to hammer out an agreement in which enough of the bird's habitat would be set aside to protect the gnatcatcher, while the rest of the land would be given over to development.

It's one of the largest intact forest ecosystems left on Earth; it's actually only three or four places that have these large unfragmented habitats left and because of that it holds some of the largest populations of mammals and birds — some of the largest populations of wolves, for example, in, caribou as well as, we estimate one to three billion birds that nest there every year and that's some of the birds that are actually stopping off at Central Park.

You report that bird species are hopping on and off the critically endangered species list due to changes in habitat...

To better understand the interacting effects of habitat degradation and climate on bird populations, researchers from the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station (PSW), Klamath Bird Observatory, and Costa Rica Bird Observatories spent 12 years studying the White - collared Manakin, a fruit - eating tropical bird, in mature and young forests along the Caribbean coast of Costa Rbird populations, researchers from the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station (PSW), Klamath Bird Observatory, and Costa Rica Bird Observatories spent 12 years studying the White - collared Manakin, a fruit - eating tropical bird, in mature and young forests along the Caribbean coast of Costa RBird Observatory, and Costa Rica Bird Observatories spent 12 years studying the White - collared Manakin, a fruit - eating tropical bird, in mature and young forests along the Caribbean coast of Costa RBird Observatories spent 12 years studying the White - collared Manakin, a fruit - eating tropical bird, in mature and young forests along the Caribbean coast of Costa Rbird, in mature and young forests along the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica.

Using bird - bands, photographs, and DNA fingerprinting, the researchers closely tracked the goings - on in a population of buntings living in a shrubby prairie habitat outside Missoula, Montana.

Pimm's team analyzed the birds» habitats using remote - sensing data on forest coverage and elevation.

They also provide habitats for migrating birds, many of which bulk up on brine shrimp before and during their long journeys.