Sentences with phrase «during spring migration»

The Bowhead can live deep into a second century if unmolested, it has a gorgeous seven - octave song, and is a keen listener (Cornell's Chris Clark recorded 35,000 vocalizations during spring migration in 1985, with only 19 overlaps!).

Gray whales are reliably found near the Farallones during their spring migration north and the fall / winter migration south.

For the Red Knot, the Delaware Bay on the East Coast is a major staging ground during spring migration; it is estimated that over 90 % of one subspecies can be present in a single day.

Not exact matches

The station, located in Newbury, Massachusetts, is designed to monitor migratory passerines (songbirds) during spring and fall migrations.

This program will reduce energy and help save migratory birds passing through the city during the annual spring and fall migration seasons.

Mass Audubon's Challenge was based on five years of project review, including three years of ornithological fieldwork; our assessment and comments on Cape Wind's first federal Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) and literature review; talks with ornithologists, scientists, and engineers; and a visit to Denmark's offshore wind farms during the 2005 spring bird migration.

To participate in the program, simply agree to extinguish architectural and window lighting between 11 pm and 5 am during spring and fall migration seasons by filling in the form below.

«Furthermore we speculate that, during wetter periods, springs may have formed ways of «bridging» longitudinal dispersal of hominins between larger freshwater bodies or rivers providing a critical resource during hominin migration within and out of Africa,» Professor Ashley said.

After spending a relatively leisurely winter and early spring luxuriating in warm tropical climates, they migrate north for a brief but highly eventful summer in North America, during which they must complete three energetically demanding and time - consuming tasks: (1) they must build nests, lay eggs, and provide for their offspring until the young reach independence, (2) they must completely replace all the feathers in their plumage as part of the annual molt, and (3) they must prepare for the fall southward migration by eating prodigiously and storing the body fat that will fuel their long - distance flights.

Often times, you can just see 50 to 70 species here in a morning, maybe more, you know, during the height of migration and I've been here where there's been thousands of white - throated sparrows, for example, just passing through the tree tops on a spring morning, you know, really important.

Instead, he fears that wild birds may be reinfected during migration the following spring by contact with poultry.

We've driven every kind of van on the market during our annual spring - break migration to Florida.

There is an operational lighthouse at Warden Head on the southern end of the harbour.with uninterrupted views of the coast offering an ideal location for viewing dolphins and the southern right and humpback whales during their winter and spring migration periods.

Many varieties of shorebirds are spotted on beaches and along the Ecola Creek estuary during spring and fall migrations.

Although the high number is due to migrants, infrequent visitors, and rare species that have arrived on the islands only after being blown off course during spring and summer migrations.

Sights are especially good during migrations in spring and winter.

Depoe Bay, a community of about 1,500 with a tiny, keyhole harbor that it claims is the world's smallest, is a center for whale watching during the winter and spring gray whale migrations.

It is on their southern migration during spring (September to late November) that provides the best whale watching opportunities around Eden.

View the gray whale migration during the winter and spring months and the giants of the sea, the blue and finback whales during the summer and fall months.

These dolphins, birds, and sea lions are also a common and frequent sight during the winter and spring months, but the main attraction during these months is the annual gray whale migration to the lagoons of Mexico's Baja California.

Gray Whales make an extensive migration during the winter and spring from the Chukchi and Bering Sea's in Alaska down to three wintering lagoons in Baja Mexico.

During the winter and spring months the gray migration often has multiple gray whales just outside the bay's entrance.

Multiple gray whales are often seen in this same area during the winter and spring months while on their annual migration.

A recent study by David Mizrahi of New Jersey Audubon and Jeff Buler of the University of Delaware, revealed that the Great Cypress Swamp is one of the two most important stopover sites in Delaware for neotropical migratory songbirds during the spring and fall migrations.

In the supporting information (PDF) appendix the researchers show all their data, including the full list of the 100 bird species, whether the date for their spring migration has shifted (days per year from 1970 - 2000), population size has changed (1 = small change, 3 = large change) and during which time interval (either 1970 - 1990 and 1990 - 2000), what their average migration distance is (expressed in latitude change) and whether these birds winter in (southern) Europe or in Africa.