Sentences with phrase «birds die each year»

No wonder a hundred thousand sea animals and a million birds die each year due to plastic consumption.

Not exact matches

Conservationist Norman Myers, author of The Sinking Ark: A New Look at the Problem of Disappearing Species (Pergamon, 1979), estimates that with the advent of technology between 1600 and 1900, an average of one species of bird or mammal (little is known about reptiles, amphibians, fishes, invertebrates and plants) disappeared every four years, compared to one every 1,000 years during the «great dying» of the dinosaurs.

... he's got it right... in fact, just the other day... (well, since a day is like a thousand years to Dad, Me and the Bird, it might have been a thousand years ago)... but just the other day I was saying to Dad, «Dad... Father... hey, might have to go back and incarnated again... seems the way the American Evangelicals are behaving, I might have to die again... I know!

This fast growth has widespread and severe negative welfare impacts on the birds *, causing debilitating physical problems ranging from heart failure to lameness and results in millions of birds dying in sheds every year before they even reach slaughter age (up to 20 million die in sheds each year in Australia).

Feb. 26: An estimated 3,000 birds die or get injured from colliding with Chicago buildings each year.

An estimated 3,000 birds die or get injured from colliding with Chicago buildings each year.

Bald eagles have made a remarkable recovery across the United States since the pesticide DDT was banned 45 years ago, but the majestic birds are still dying from another environmental poison: lead from bullets and shotgun pellets in wildlife carcasses left behind by hunters.

«It is estimated that over one million birds and 100,000 marine animals die unnecessarily each year from plastic debris,» said Dr. Pearson, who noted that plastic bags «do not biodegrade.»

The 62 - million - year - old mousebird suggests that, after the great dino die - off, birds rebounded and diversified rapidly, setting the stage for today's dizzying variety of feathery forms.

The unusually warm waters, which lingered for about a year and a half, have been linked to mass die - offs of birds, collapsed codfish populations in the Gulf of Alaska and altered weather patterns that brought drought to California.

Wilson was perhaps an easy target because he died in 1813, years before Audubon would announce his quest to paint every bird in America.

Any given small building kills only a few birds each year versus the 24 expected to die annually at a single skyscraper.

«We're not saying that birds never die in winter — in harsh years there are bound to be some fatalities,» explained Dr Karl Evans.

The study details that 26 of the 304 grounded birds died over 15 - year period on the Balearic Islands as a result of light pollution.

North American skies see 10 billion to 20 billion resident or migratory birds each year, but many die because of human activities.

Eighteen years and 8,500 species of birds later, Snetsinger further embarrassed her physicians by dying in a road accident while birding in Madagascar.

The last Dodo bird died on the island of Mauritius (located about 1,200 miles off the southeast coast of Africa, in the Indian Ocean) over 300 years ago.

They were part of a bumper crop of best actress hopefuls at the fest this year, which also included Annette Bening in «Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool,» trans actress Daniela Vega in «A Fantastic Woman» and Saoirse Ronan in Greta Gerwig's «Lady Bird» (perhaps the overall highlight of the fest and a scrappy contender for distributor A24 in the wake of «Moonlight's» success).

I don't know much about Bird People, and yet it's something I'm dying to see this year at TIFF.

Answering our call was Annette Bening, who plays former Hollywood leading lady Gloria Grahame romantically linked to a much younger man in her final years in «Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool»; Jessica Chastain, who plays real - life poker entrepreneur Molly Bloom targeted by the FBI in «Molly's Game»; Diane Kruger, who won the Cannes film festival's top acting prize for her portrayal of a woman whose husband and child have been killed by terrorists in «In the Fade»; Margot Robbie, who stars as disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding in the quirky «I, Tonya»; Saoirse Ronan, as a Sacramento teen looking for her place in the world in «Lady Bird»; and Kate Winslet, who stars in Woody Allen's 1950s Coney Island drama «Wonder Wheel.»

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Friday: Guests include Jessica Chastain, star of «Molly's Game»; Timothée Chalamet, star of «Call Me By Your Name» and «Lady Bird»; a musical tribute to Sharon Jones, the soul - funk singer who died a year ago.

Researchers estimate that in the U.S. alone, nearly 100 million birds die from collisions with windows and buildings every year, eighty million birds die from collisions with automobiles, and another 67 million from exposure to pesticides on crops.

Environment Canada research estimates that, in addition to the impacts of climate change and habitat loss, 130 to 433 million birds a year die as a result of people.

SharkSafe was allegedly tested for a year in the Kwa Zulu - Natal (a.k.a. «shark alley» of Cape Town), as well as in Australian waters where 460 sharks, birds and other marine life die yearly in more lethal, physical shark deterrent systems.

Michael Bird writes eloquently at the end of The St Ives Artists about «the Poetry of Departures»: Bryan Wynter and Roger Hilton had died earlier that year, and a whole artistic world seemed suddenly lost.

It is estimated as many as 30,000 birds per year will die this way during huge migrations at just this one green power plant.

Each year, about 10,000 birds die at UBC by colliding with clear and reflective glass.

The newest species benefits from having more fossil remains than most, so we can hope to see more remains in the future, giving us better ideas on how these amazing birds looked, evolved and why they died out, millions of years ago.

Thousands more birds will die each year.

Mr. Mueller soon discovered that a state biologist had said in 1986 that «wind projects should not be built close to areas where birds concentrate,» and reported in 1988 that dozens of California's 1,000 golden eagles died in the pass each year.

Mongabay quotes American Bird Conservancy's president Mike Parr, who gives some important context: Parr says up to one billion birds are killed each year from hitting buildings, another billion get killed by kitty, 50 million die hitting communication towers, 15 million die from pesticide poisoning.

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Over 100,000 birds and marine life die each year, due to an encounter with plastic debris, much of it plastic bags.

When I lived in Glenroy in Victoria in Australia, 7 birds died over 20 years, through hitting my big glass window in my lounge room.

The same thing happened the following year... 1431: following a blotting out of the sky, and pillars of fire, there was a drought — «the earth and the bogs smoldered, there was no clear sky for 6 weeks, nobody saw the sun, fishes, animals and birds died of the smoke.

The commission said that New Year's Eve revelers shooting off fireworks could have startled the birds from their roost and caused them to die from stress.

At least 1 million migratory birds die in Toronto alone each year due to collisions with buildings.