Sentences with phrase «federal biologists»

Here's a fascinating «Your Dot» followup to my post on the 17 - foot egg - bearing female Burmese python that was caught, tracked and euthanized by federal biologists working to understand the impact of this introduced predator on the Everglades and Florida.

The US Endangered Species Act requires federal biologists to keep close tabs on pelican populations for the first five years after delisting.

Federal biologists hope the birds will remain in their new locations as reintroduced birds from the Atlantic coast formed new colonies in Louisiana in recent decades.

Now, just weeks away from the long weekend that kicks off summer, the big question from federal biologists is this: Can sunbathers, surfers and developers give the western snowy plovers the peace and quiet they need to nest and raise their young?

Following the discovery of the birds in April and this month, federal biologists installed small wire cages around the nesting sites in effort to protect their eggs from harm.

Even when radio tagged, pythons can be incredibly hard to spot, as I discovered when I was out in the Everglades with federal biologists in 2007 to do reporting for «A Movable Beast,» my 2007 feature on the species» adventures in Florida.

UPDATED, 8:00 a.m.: For the first time since the 1930's, federal biologists confirmed that a leatherback sea turtle has nested on a Texas beach, at the Padre Island National Seashore near Corpus Christi.

Nov. 10, 11:55 p.m. Updated Federal biologists are intensifying research on a large and unexplained rise in the frequency of deformed beaks in a wide range of bird species from Alaska through the Pacific Northwest, including British Columbia.

A study in September by federal biologists found that wind turbines had killed at least 67 bald and golden eagles since 2008.

Between 2002 and 2004, state and federal biologists collected over 2,500 fish from 30 locations along the southern California coast, targeting 23 of the most commonly caught recreational fish such as croaker, bass, surfperch, and mackerel.

State and federal biologists gathered over 2,500 fish from 30 sites along the Southern California coast between 2002 and 2004, targeting 23 commonly caught recreational fish — including the bass, surfperch, mackerel and white croaker.

A whooping crane raised by federal biologists and known as L8, was one of two such birds shot on Monday in Louisiana.

Federal biologists are also in the midst of a 15 - year effort to combat invasive carp that have largely destroyed the native aquatic ecosystem of the refuge's two massive, shallow lakes and the Blitzen River that feeds them from the south.

This effort included partners in the USFWS, state and federal biologists, the Czech Science Foundation, and the National Speleological Society of the USA.

[Oct. 2, 2012, 1:23 p.m. Updated Charles Monnett, the federal biologist at the heart of the investigation described below, has been cleared of scientific misconduct over his polar bear surveys (report link), but his case remains a source of disputes at several levels — as described in detail by Jill Burke in Alaska Dispatch.

Steven C. Amstrup, the federal biologist who led an analysis last year concluding that the world's polar bear population could shrink two thirds by 2050 under moderate projections for retreating summer sea ice, is once again in the field along Alaska's Arctic coast, studying this year's brood of cubs, yearlings and mothers.

To understand why such restrictions are vital, revisit my reporting on this remarkable reptile, which — released by pet owners over the years — have been feeding, breeding and spreading in south Florida, where the python has had a catastrophic impact on small mammals and wading birds, according to federal biologists.

Federal biologists have said that this long - term ice retreat is the main reason they concluded that polar bears deserved protection under the Endangered Species Act.

Scott Schliebe, a federal biologist and the polar bear project leader for the Fish and Wildlife Service, said the basic connection between shrinking ice and greater distress for the bears was well established.