Sentences with word «dormice»

These projects include work to protect water voles in the South West of England from habitat loss and predation by the American Mink; work to safeguard the future of dormice in Cheshire and the creation of wildlife corridors benefitting birds, mammals and amphibians in North Wales.

This is only the third site in Conwy to record dormice.

So called «liminal animals» with whom we have limited but important interactions — urban foxes and birds, dormice reliant on hedgerows for their ecological niche, stray cats and the like — occupy a complex middle ground.

It gives us hope that other woods in the area may also have some and that we can encourage landowners to plant linking hedges and woodlands to enable dormice and other wildlife to move between woods and help expand their populations.»

However, late this year dormice were re-discovered using the boxes in the wood.

One of the other top achievements of BASC's Green Shoots conservation programme was the discovery of the first evidence of native dormice in Cheshire for 100 years.

Tits» antipredator tactics vary in their effectiveness depending on the predator; attacks by Great Spotted Woodpeckers were successful only 60 % of the time, while forest dormice were 100 % successful.

Then, the two zoo dormice were filmed in cages filled with branches (pictured below).

Another classic was a first - century A.D. piece of satire called the «Satyricon,» in which an obnoxiously wealthy man named Trimalchio throws feasts in which he serves dishes like dormice rolled in honey and poppy seeds, a rabbit with wings attached so that it looked like Pegasus, and a huge boar surrounding by suckling pigs, which the guests could take away like party favors.

The project will create an ecological network for dormice and a range of other animal and plant species.

The Looking Glass Wars unabashedly challenges our Wonderland assumptions of mad tea parties, sleepy dormice, and a curious little blonde girl to reveal an epic battle in the endless war for Imagination.

Animal translocation for conservation: performance of dormice in relation to release methods, origin, and season

A licensed volunteer from the North Wales Wildlife Trust took the dormice out and weighed and checked them.»

Management for dormice is complementary to game and rough shooting so BASC members and farmers in the project will see a direct benefit to their shooting interests because game birds will also thrive in the habitat created for the dormice.

With this approach, the author was able to identify the physical attributes of tree cavities that foiled a suite of nest attackers from woodpeckers to dormice.»

«It is conceivable that the terrestrial ancestors of echolocating bats used echolocation in a similar way,» says Jones — although he points out that bats are not closely related to rodents, so the dormice would have gained their ability to echolocate independently rather than from an ancestor common to them and bats.

Monkeypox was imported with Gambian giant rats and dormice.

Book 1 in The Looking Glass Wars Trilogy — The Looking Glass Wars unabashedly challenges the world's Carrollian Wonderland assumptions of tea parties, dormice and a curious little blonde girl to reveal an epic, cross dimensional saga of love, murder, betrayal, revenge and

While hammocks are mostly marketed for ferrets, other animals, especially rats, sugar gliders, flying squirrels and dormice, also enjoy them.

While hammocks are mostly marketed for ferrets, other animals such as rats, sugar gliders and dormice, also appreciate them.