Sentences with phrase «eagle population in»

There is a great deal of cover up going on about the decline of the golden eagle population in California.

A pipeline spill could also undo efforts to restore the bald eagle population in the area, he said.

Eagle populations in the lower 48 states, for instance, have increased by 10 % a year for the past decade, to more than 5000 nesting pairs.

According to wind farm operator TRUenergy, there are still active wedge - tailed eagle populations in the hills.

Here in Wisconsin, we have one of the largest American Eagle populations in the country (behind Florida I think), and I have had the great pleasure of spotting one here on occasion.

Not exact matches

The most passionate argument in the book, in a chapter on declining Jewish population, pleads that, after the Holocaust, Jews are an endangered species, deserving protection and enhancement for the sake of diversity, like the bald eagle: «You have friends who work to rescue endangered animal and plant species, so you know why this matters.»

Hikers came across two dead golden eagles in the sheep country of northwest Colorado, a region where eagle populations have diminished sharply, and a Denver laboratory provided the diagnosis: strychnine poisoning.

«Recorded offences are dropping and many raptor populations are increasing, including a recent 15 per cent increase in golden eagle numbers.»

In the mid-1960s fewer than 500 nesting pairs of bald eagles existed in the continental U.S.; today, thanks to the DDT ban and other conservation efforts, some 10,000 pairs of bald eagles inhabit the Lower 48 — that's a 20-fold population increase in just four decadeIn the mid-1960s fewer than 500 nesting pairs of bald eagles existed in the continental U.S.; today, thanks to the DDT ban and other conservation efforts, some 10,000 pairs of bald eagles inhabit the Lower 48 — that's a 20-fold population increase in just four decadein the continental U.S.; today, thanks to the DDT ban and other conservation efforts, some 10,000 pairs of bald eagles inhabit the Lower 48 — that's a 20-fold population increase in just four decadein just four decades!

«We doubt that eagle populations, for instance, have recovered enough in all areas to justify complete delisting,» he says.

Though the states bald eagle population has been steadily increasing since the late 1970s, the birds havent shown a fondness for urban real estate, preferring to nest in forested areas along the Hudson and Delaware Rivers.

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.

For a study forthcoming in The Condor: Ornithological Applications, authors David Nelson of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Todd Katzner of the U.S. Geological Survey (formerly West Virginia University), and colleagues traced individual eagles» movements through isotopes in their feathers to identify their breeding areas and to assess the population's migratory connectivity.

«Methods such as the stable isotope assignment approach in this paper are extremely important because they give us a starting point for making these kinds of assignments, and pave the way for more effective and targeted management of Golden Eagle populations.»

In Hungary, the habitat is right, there are people to supervise, and there's a population of older eagles.

Although they occur at low densities, the golden eagle can be found throughout the western third of North America, from the western edge of the Great Plains to the Pacific Coast and from Alaska south to Mexico; a small population also is present in northeastern Canada.

While other automakers opt to have their driving experiences in Canada, Subaru went with Eagle River, Wisconsin, a small city with a population of approximately 1,419 people, located roughly 30 minutes from Rhinelander.

Early in our service, Dr Hess developed a surgery to help Bald Eagles and other birds of prey overcome a lethal foot disease that was ravaging the population at a time when the Bald Eagle population was struggling to survive.

And, although TWS acknowledges the risks to «reptiles, birds, and mammals [digesting] spent ammunition and lost fishing tackle... potentially leading to population - level consequences in some species (e.g., waterfowl, eagles, condors, mourning doves, and loons),» [12] their position statement on the subject is anemic.

The Channel fox population on four islands — Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, San Miguel, and Santa Catalina — declined dramatically in the 1990s, about a century after settlers first brought pigs to the islands: a move that attracted golden eagles, who found the foxes tasty, as well.

To halt the downward spiral of island fox populations, the Service partnered with the National Park Service, The Nature Conservancy, and Catalina Island Conservancy to launch a series of recovery actions that included relocating non-native golden eagles from the northern Channel Islands; removing the non-native species that provided prey for the eagles; vaccinating foxes against canine distemper; and breeding foxes in captivity and reestablishing them to the wild.

«Return Flight: Restoring the Bald Eagle to the Channel Islands» is an incredible new film that chronicles the journey of the bald eagle's recovery from disappearance on the Channel Islands in the 1960s from DDT contamination, overhunting, and egg collecting to today's population of about 60 birds on four Channel Islands, some that are successfully breeEagle to the Channel Islands» is an incredible new film that chronicles the journey of the bald eagle's recovery from disappearance on the Channel Islands in the 1960s from DDT contamination, overhunting, and egg collecting to today's population of about 60 birds on four Channel Islands, some that are successfully breeeagle's recovery from disappearance on the Channel Islands in the 1960s from DDT contamination, overhunting, and egg collecting to today's population of about 60 birds on four Channel Islands, some that are successfully breeding.

Continuing threats to bald eagle populations include lead poisoning from ammunition in hunter - shot prey, collisions with motor vehicles and stationary structures, and development - related destruction of shoreline nesting, perching, roosting and foraging habitats.

When island fox populations on the northern islands plummeted to the edge of extinction in 1999, Channel Islands National Park and the Nature Conservancy established captive breeding facilities on San Miguel, Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz Islands «as insurance against the loss of foxes from golden eagle predation.»

The golden eagle replaced the bald eagle and began to feed on feral pigs following the decimation of the local bald eagle population due to DDT exposure in the 1950s — the bald eagle would have deterred the golden eagle from settling on the islands while it subsisted on fish.

Return Flight: Restoring the Bald Eagle to the Channel Islands This 13 - minute film chronicles the journey of the bald eagle's recovery from disappearance on the Channel Islands in the 1960s due to DDT contamination, overhunting, and egg collecting to today's population of about 60 eagles on four Channel Islands, some that are successfully breeEagle to the Channel Islands This 13 - minute film chronicles the journey of the bald eagle's recovery from disappearance on the Channel Islands in the 1960s due to DDT contamination, overhunting, and egg collecting to today's population of about 60 eagles on four Channel Islands, some that are successfully breeeagle's recovery from disappearance on the Channel Islands in the 1960s due to DDT contamination, overhunting, and egg collecting to today's population of about 60 eagles on four Channel Islands, some that are successfully breeding.

During the December «From Shore to Sea» lecture National Park Service Wildlife Biologist, Tim Coonan, discussed the latest efforts to save the endangered island fox following a severe, over 90 % decline in the population caused by golden eagle predation.

Skunk populations on both islands have been fluctuating in recent years, apparently in response to a complex dynamic involving island foxes and golden eagles (Aquila chrysaetos), and their future trajectories are uncertain (Jones et al. 2008).

In the waters of the park, visitors can expect to see pristine coral reefs, steep walls dropping from the reef crest to the abyss, large populations of fish including Goliath grouper weighing up to 400 lbs, large schools of multiple snapper species, large rainbow and midnight parrotfishes, eagle rays, sea turtles and much more.

On the other hand, the UK does have a very small remnant population of golden eagles, and it would be quite easy to intentionally site windfarms in such a way as to wipe them out, if that were my goal.

He also states: «On the other hand, the UK does have a very small remnant population of golden eagles, and it would be quite easy to intentionally site windfarms in such a way as to wipe them out, if that were my goal.»

Simultaneous decline in Steppe Eagle (Aquila nipalensis) populations and Levant Sparrowhawk (Accipiter brevipes) reproductive success: coincidence or a Chernobyl legacy?

Troubles keep mounting for a proposed wind farm in Eastern North Carolina that already faces questions about whether it will harm the local bald eagle population.

This Pacific Hydro project was originally for «70 wind turbines and was refused by Minister Hulls in July 2005 due to the potential impact of the development on the Wedge - tailed Eagle population and, to a lesser extent, visual amenity in the Parwan Valley.»

More information on the bogus population studies financed by the wind industry may be found in my editorial of April 2010: «GOLDEN EAGLES FALL PREY TO WIND INDUSTRY».

And while the golden eagle population is stable in the West, any additional mortality to a long - lived species such as an eagle can be a «tipping point,» Millsap said.

We helped to halt one of several wind energy projects planned for the shores of Lake Erie, in one of the most significant bird migration corridors in the Western Hemisphere and home to a large Bald Eagle (shown) population.

The Altamont Pass has the densest population of nesting GOLDEN EAGLES in the world.

John Murawski — The Charlotte Observer — August 31, 2012 Troubles keep mounting for a proposed wind farm in Eastern North Carolina that already faces questions about whether it will harm the local bald eagle population.

The population is reproductively, geographically, biologically, and behaviorally distinct from all other bald eagle populations, since no other bald eagle population occupies habitat so hot and dry... no other population of bald eagles will move in if this population disappears, and that will result in a significant gap in the overall bald - eagle range.

Though the bald eagle as a species was removed from the endangered species list in 2007, unique populations, like the desert nesting eagles, remained due to their status as a «distinct population segment.»

In 2007 bald eagles were taken off the endangered species list and have an estimated population of over 100,000 — 50,000 of which are in Alaska alonIn 2007 bald eagles were taken off the endangered species list and have an estimated population of over 100,000 — 50,000 of which are in Alaska alonin Alaska alone.

when in fact it does not cause spikes to Bald Eagle populations (or something else).

Of course, when the population of an area sees such a spike as Eagle recently has, the risk for being involved in a personal injury tends to increase.