Sentences with phrase «breeding areas»

Dogs that are not dried completely are prone to various skin conditions, as a damp coat and skin are prime breeding areas for bacteria.

Currently, a warmer than normal climate has increased the presence of mosquito breeding areas in all 50 states.

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In addition to vaccinations, horse owners also need to reduce the mosquito populations and their possible breeding areas.

There are also puppy mills and kitten breeding areas on the farms.

The spill is right on top of one of the preferred breeding areas.

Humpbacks are famous for their complex and haunting song, sung by the males in their tropical breeding areas of Hawai'I and Mexico.

«This region off the western Antarctic Peninsula has been a known breeding area for Adélie penguins for thousands of years,» said Kim Bernard, a biological oceanographer at Oregon State University and lead author on the study.

The nationally significant Warrego River Waterholes near Charleville are an important breeding area for native fish including Murray cod and silver perch.

They essentially make north - south migrations between cold water feeding areas for summer and temperate to tropical breeding areas for winter.

One big question is whether or not they exhibit «migratory connectivity,» where individuals from the same breeding area also migrate to the same wintering area; strong connectivity means that a population is divided into small subpopulations that are especially vulnerable to environmental changes.

Factors affecting the level of risk of heartworm infection include the climate (temperature, humidity), the species of mosquitoes in the area, presence of mosquito breeding areas, and presence of animal reservoirs (infected dogs, foxes, coyotes).

Most members of this population of Hepatic Tanager live in Mexico, so that should be considered when viewing the projected major shift away from breeding areas in southern Arizona and New Mexico.

It is situated in the game and cattle breeding area of Bandelierkop, 28 km south of the Soutpansberg Mountain, the most prominent feature of...

Features of the new breeding area includes, public access and viewing area, one of the deepest elephant wading ponds in South East Asia.

One of the whales, dubbed Varvara by the scientists, visited the three major breeding areas for eastern gray whales, which are found off North America.

Owing to the isolation of Channel Islands National Park, this bird is provided with the protected breeding area of Santa Barbara Island, and especially Prince Island off the northeast coast and Castle Rock off the northwest coast of San Miguel Island.

2004 — September: Work commences on the spacious new breeding area for the Elephants, and at the same time updating and modernizing the infrastructure of the Elephant food area, waste & rubbish removal, plus the implementing of a brand new Elephant Manure Processing Plant in Renon, Denpasar where the elephant waste is turned into an environmentally friendly fertilizer.

«Drilling near breeding areas would be prohibited during mating season, and power lines would be moved away from prime habitat to avoid serving as perches for raptors who prey on sage grouse,» notes Bette Grande, a research fellow at the Heartland Institute and a former North Dakota state legislator.

Similar attempts are under way to establish the Bermuda petrel on Bermuda's Nonsuch Island, where hurricanes and sea - level rise pose less of a risk than in its native breeding areas.

Maui is the place to whale watch to see humpback whales in their natural breeding area.

The pond is a documented breeding area for the eastern tiger salamander, one of the largest terrestrial salamanders in the United States and a species on the state's endangered list.

A narrower, more achievable goal would be mapping out their annual ranges to identify key breeding areas, like El Bajo once was, and conserving those.

«It's the first long - term study to show climate change having a major impact on chick survival and reproductive success,» said Boersma, who has led field work since 1983 at the world's largest breeding area for Magellanic penguins, about halfway up the Atlantic coast of Argentina at Punta Tombo, where 200,000 pairs reside from September through February to have their young.

Providing artificial breeding areas closer to the ocean to tempt the turtles away is another option, but the problem, Burke says, is that turtles are creatures of habit and it's really hard to change their minds.

Norway's government has approved oil drilling in what environmentalists say is a highly sensitive breeding area for fish and birds.

To see the dolphins, we took a 20 - minute speedboat ride from Ibo Island in the archipelago to a spot known locally as a natural dolphin breeding area and nursery.

Currently, there are only 10 nesting locations, representing a 65 percent decline in active breeding areas.

For the last 40 years, these researchers have visited sea lion breeding areas in the Channel Islands to count pups and take measurements.

In September 2014, Melin and her team, along with veterinary staff from The Marine Mammal Center, visited the sea lion rookeries on the Channel Islands, a primary breeding area, to assess the pups born three months prior.

Elephant seals breed annually and are seemingly faithful to colonies that have established breeding areas.

On many of the cays there are spectacular and globally important breeding colonies of seabirds and marine turtles, and Raine Island is the world's largest green turtle breeding area.

After a couple of hours spent at Lamington National Park they take the four wheel drive track, down through the beautiful Kerry Valley, which is prime beef cattle and horse breeding area, to the country town of Beaudesert where you have a barbecue lunch.

San Pedro's tour guides, who stand to benefit most from the park, are keen supporters, but fishermen also see the advantage of increased protection for vital breeding areas in the mangroves.

Lahani Lodge overlooks one of these lakes, the Bullfrog Pan which is one of the biggest breeding areas of the bullfrog species.

Visit to Ano Nuevo State Reserve: A guided three - mile walk to view the elephant seal breeding area.

Spend the morning spotting manta rays, turtles and sharks at Skipjack Point before driving south to the dugong breeding area of Eagle Bluff, where there's a boardwalk that extends over the ocean offering great views of grazing dugongs (known as sea cows for the hours they spend peacefully munching sea grass) as well as sharks, dolphins, fish and coral.

Audubon's climate model projects a nearly total shift in summer climate space for this species, so it will likely need to adapt to new regions well north of the current breeding areas.

«We're trying to provide enough habitat so that bird populations will flourish and return to their arctic breeding area in really good condition.»

East African Crowned cranes, a subspecies of the Grey Crowned cranes, are endangered due to habitat loss and degradation from human activities including due pesticide use, overgrazing by livestock, drainage of their wetland breeding areas and drought.

The birds abandon breeding areas near tall structures, and the disturbance and fragmentation of their habitat further makes it difficult for them to establish viable populations.

The 262,000 - hectare park, located in the easternmost portion of the country, encompasses all of the leopard's known breeding areas in Russia.

Midway is the most important breeding area for Laysan albatross, a species vulnerable to extinction as pollution and fishing pressures increase.

Factors affecting the level of risk of heartworm infection include the climate (temperature and humidity), the species of mosquitoes in the area, presence of mosquito breeding areas and presence of animal «reservoirs» (such as infected dogs, foxes or coyotes).

Since 2003, the conservationists had trained the birds to follow human foster parents, who led them from breeding areas in Austria and Germany to wintering grounds in the Italian region of Tuscany, using an ultralight aircraft.

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This is a cattle breeding area and we see lots of cows grazing.

Breeding areas include both fresh and saltwater water habitats with a concentrated breeding happening between Courtenay and Campbell River including Mitlenatch Island.

The other major breeding area is the Campbell Islands.