«Grazed lands play a major, essential role
in grassland bird conservation in South America, and this important research reveals that specialized birds may be limited by habitat quality.
Linking snake habitat use to nest predation risk
in grassland birds: the dangers of shrub cover.
Not exact matches
Mass Audubon has a long history
in working with
grassland birds, a group that is showing steep declines across North America including
in the Commonwealth.
PITTSFIELD, MA — Mass Audubon's Berkshires Sanctuaries will be working this fall to improve habitat for bobolink and other
grassland birds in a field at its Canoe Meadows Wildlife Sanctuary
in Pittsfield.
Spreading across more than 700 acres
in Easthampton and Northampton along the western bank of the oxbow, the wildlife sanctuary offers visitors a range of landscapes and habitats attractive to
birds, from marshes and meadows to
grasslands and forest.
«We know from studying these
birds today that their habitats are pine
grasslands that are found
in cooler, dryer regions.
With the arrival of wind energy projects
in Kansas and throughout the Plains, Sandercock and his team were part of a consortium of stakeholders — including conservationists, wildlife agencies and wind energy companies — who studied how these wind projects influence
grassland birds.
A turkey - like
bird with a vulture's head, the vulturine guineafowl makes its home
in the dry
grasslands of northeast Africa.
«We had a lot of buy -
in from stakeholders and we had an effective oversight committee,» said Sandercock, who studies
grassland birds.
A new University of Illinois study provides video evidence of parental infanticide
in dickcissels, small
grassland birds of the Midwestern US.
The first U.S. State of the
Birds report came out in 2009 and established the precedent of using birds that are confined to specific habitats as indicators of the health of those habitats: oceans, coasts, wetlands, arctic, forests, grasslands, and aridl
Birds report came out
in 2009 and established the precedent of using
birds that are confined to specific habitats as indicators of the health of those habitats: oceans, coasts, wetlands, arctic, forests, grasslands, and aridl
birds that are confined to specific habitats as indicators of the health of those habitats: oceans, coasts, wetlands, arctic, forests,
grasslands, and aridlands.
The low intensity amber light was shown to inhibit, rather than induce, flowering
in greater
bird's foot trefoil, a wild relative of peas and beans that is a key source of food for the pea aphid
in grasslands and road verges.
«Although
birds in this study were shown to compensate by switching to other seed types, the findings suggest that the capacity of grazed lands to support similar numbers of
birds as ungrazed lands may be compromised,» according to the Vermont Center for Ecostudies» Rosalind Renfrew, an expert on
grassland bird conservation who was not involved
in the study.
Saving the prairie chicken: Work
in Kansas has national significance for declining species of
grassland bird
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They have been popular for centuries and are a native of Australia where they live
in the dry
grasslands and are extremely tough little
birds.
The Acana Regionals line is made from start to finish
in their Kentucky DogStar ® kitchens and features flavors like Meadowland (free - range poultry, freshwater fish, nest - laid eggs), Wild Atlantic (wild New England fish, fresh Kentucky greens),
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The North - Eastern region
in particular boasts a vast array of
bird life
in its
grassland, lagoons, forests and woodlands.
Known formally as the Southern KwaZulu Natal
Birding Route its list reads like a who's who of the endangered and rare
bird sightings, boasting all three of the country's crane species as well as the chance of sighting a crowned eagle
in the oNgoye Forest, the globally threatened blue swallow, and the endangered Cape parrot
in the Creighton Valley's mist belt forests and
grasslands.
Rose Cottage lies on the edge of the protected Haenertsburg
grasslands, where there are hiking / cycling trails,
bird watching opportunities / trails, adventure sport destinations, trout and bass fishing, berry picking (
in season) and many annual festivals to attend.
And when the
birds fly by they don't see a flat, ugly tarmac broiling
in the sun, they see a rolling, flowering
grassland that looks like home.
This tiny, straw - colored
bird found
in dense, marshy
grasslands and rice fields is seldom detected, especially
in the winter when it is silent.
The Guardian reports, «The dramatic decline
in butterfly numbers indicates a wider loss of biodiversity, with other insects such as bumblebees, hoverflies, spiders and moths, as well as many plants and
birds, disappearing along with the loss of traditional
grassland.»