Sentences with phrase «in grassland birds»

Linking snake habitat use to nest predation risk in grassland birds: the dangers of shrub cover.

«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.

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 aridlBirds 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 aridlbirds 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.

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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.»