Sentences with phrase «feeding grounds as»

Scientists have found that wind farms can have a positive effect on wildlife, with some species of birds even using the towering pylons as new feeding grounds as small creatures make their homes there.

Some changes are well - known, such as declines in polar bear populations and stresses to walruses being forced out of their shallow feeding grounds as ice retreats into deeper waters.

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But, Pautzke thought, why not raise the fish in ponds until they actually felt the urge to go to salt water, use the streams merely as chutes to send them out to the ocean's rich feeding grounds, wait two years, and — presto — get back hundreds, thousands, even millions of big, healthy trout?

While much of the used grounds go to landfills, some of them are applied as fertilizer, used as a biodiesel source or mixed into animal feed.

«Scientists are concerned that the dolphins will have difficulty adapting as quickly as necessary to find new feeding grounds to sustain their populations.»

Researchers determined the whales» current population numbers by comparing photographic shots of humpbacks in their North Pacific feeding grounds (around the Pacific Rim from California to Kamchatka) to images taken of the whales in their southern, tropical breeding areas — some as far as 3000 miles away.

The plankton, in turn, attracts a vast array of marine life, providing feeding as well as spawning grounds for myriad pelagic species, including some that have migrated across wide oceanic areas.

Inner Fire values beauty, as reflected in the buildings and grounds, which in turn feeds the soul, and an organic and balanced diet, which feeds the body.

This is just my take, and I could be wrong, but it seems to me that the Fed refuses to disclose on the grounds that the documents are sensitive since they contain confidential financial information, or, they involve inter - or intra-agency communication, such as with the Treasury, or inside the Fed itself.

«A lot of times, people think that animals are in need when they're not,» Shipman said, as he hand - fed a baby hummingbird who had been picked up on the grounds of a school earlier that day.

Although this species is capable of migrating huge distances from feeding grounds to it's nesting beach they prefer coastline habitats and are most commonly founds around small islands (such as the Gili Islands), bays and protected shores.

As we explore by ship, by Zodiac, and on foot, keep an eye out for gray whales, which can be found in these prime feeding grounds, and more than 100 migratory bird species.

Gray whales, as described by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), are stated to feed primarily on swarming mysids, commonly called opossum shrimps, tube - dwelling amphipods, and polychaete tube worms in the northern parts of their range, but are also known to take red crabs, baitfish, and other food (crab larvae, mobile amphipods, herring eggs and larvae, cephalopods, and megalops) opportunistically or off the main feeding grounds.

The gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus), [1] also known as the grey whale, [3] gray back whale, Pacific gray whale, or California gray whale [4] is a baleen whale that migrates between feeding and breeding grounds yearly.

The Arctic feeding grounds of the gray whale are critical to their survival, as they must eat enough to sustain them until they return the next year.

During June and July you may be lucky enough to catch a sighting of a humpback whale as they migrate north from their feeding grounds in Antartica to warmer waters.

These fragile and endangered coral reefs act as key feeding and breeding grounds for a myriad of marine life and provide essential shoreline protection.

San Diego is one of the top locations to watch gray whales as they migrate from feeding grounds in the Arctic to calving lagoons in Baja California, Mexico.

Australia's eastern seaboard is affectionately known as the Humpback Highway because it's the route whales take when shuttling between their feeding and breeding grounds.

The Chuchki Sea is home to an estimated 2,000 polar bears and serves as the feeding grounds for migratory gray whales.

Given that tagging studies have shown that the half - ton tuna can roam the full span of the Atlantic in seeking breeding and feeding grounds, the European position is widely seen by fisheries specialists as sending the fabled species spiraling further toward outright collapse.

These changes can mean whales such as humpbacks and blues may have to migrate much further to reach feeding grounds, leaving them with less time to forage for food.

This passive solar greenhouse is designed to house a productive, edible ecosystem which is also combined with a variety of other complementary farming techniques such as producing fish and poultry food from insects, growing mushrooms from used coffee grounds and growing poultry, fed from by - products of the system.

Scientists also expect sea - level rise to alter coastal ecosystems such as the salt marshes and estuaries of Long Island, threatening feeding grounds for migrating waterfowl and nursery habitat for commercial fish.19

As sea ice recedes with increasing spring and summer insolation, feeding grounds once again become available.

Heavy sea ice acts as a barrier that prevents access to their feeding grounds.

Each winter bearded seals in the Pacific sector migrate southward as winter ice prevents access to their favored feeding grounds.

Healthy coastal habitats — such as sand dunes and tidal marshes — can shield communities from storm surges while also providing feeding and nursing grounds for wildlife.

Five western grays have perished in Japanese fishing nets within the last 10 years and their feeding grounds off Japan and Russia include fishing areas, shipping corridors, and oil and gas production — as well as future sites oil sites.

Grow a wildflower meadow Not only are wildflowers beautiful to look at, they're extremely important for our native wildlife, providing hunting and feeding grounds for small mammals such as wood mice, voles and shrews.