Sentences with phrase «like bird habitats»

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Organic farms create friendlier habitats for amazing little creatures like bees, birds and butterflies, which are all crucial to maintaining a healthy environment.

«I think the reduction of habitat definitely decreased their population size,» Hung says, noting something similar may explain the extinction of other outbreak species in North America, like the Rocky Mountain grasshopper in the western U.S. «Our study suggests that the combination of natural population size changes and human disturbances drove the rapid extinction of this bird.»

Secretive marsh birds like clapper rails, king rails and soras — one of which has already been found oiled — frequent brackish and salt marsh habitat.

Wild bird populations, like many wild animal populations, are under extreme pressure worldwide, mostly from human practices and habitat destruction.

Most wild bird enthusiast like attracting a diversity of birds to their backyard oasis, but weather you are trying to help control insect, attract hummingbirds or build a large wild bird habitat, we hope you will find what you are looking for here.

Nevertheless, like other tropical birds, this macaw has seen its natural habitat badly depleted, and many are still captured for the black market parrot trade.

On islands and in fragmented urban and suburban habitats unnaturally high densities of cats are not only capable of reducing or eradicating populations of birds and small mammals, they can out - compete native predators like foxes and weasels.

Campers will participate in daily arts - and - crafts projects, and work on animal projects like creating habitats for feral cats and making bird houses and pet enrichment toys.

The park is home to a butterfly pavilion, a coral reef aquarium, a wildlife breeding farm specializing in the conservation of birds like macaws, parrots, flamingos, and toucans, an orchid greenhouse, a mushroom farm, a sea turtle conservation center and nursery, and mammal habitats for jaguars, spider - monkeys, deer, manatees, dolphins, and tapirs.

The fragile habitat is also home to millions of birds, land mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and marine mammals like the elephant seals that feed, birth, breed, molt, and rest in the lands and waters surrounding the Piedras Blancas Lighthouse.

People who identify birds while they travel are often surprised that the habit causes them to soak in much bigger themes about the world: watching birds inadvertently educates the birding traveler on subjects like geography, habitat and ecology, and in a way that is much more profound than studying the same subjects in textbooks.

It is a unique and special habitat for both year round and seasonal birds like the White Crowned Pigeon, Boobies, Black Catbird, Rufous Necked Woodrail and many others...

It is a good habitat for wild animal like monkeys, bat and bird.

One to one with their habitat, my birds are more like the solitary wanderers of Caspar Friedrich's painting, allowing us to meditate upon our existential dilemma.

An oil spill could devastate endangered species like polar bears and bowhead whales, destroy habitat for millions of migratory birds, and jeopardize the subsistence - based Inupiat culture.

In 2014, we continued support of forest restoration of degraded parcels of vital bird habitat at Tapichalaca Reserve in Ecuador, with 20,000 native trees planted on 61 acres to benefit resident birds like Jocotoco Antpitta and migrants including Swainson's Thrush.

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In 2014, we continued to support habitat restoration at Tapichalaca, with 20,000 native trees planted on 61 acres to benefit resident birds like the antpitta and migrants including Swainson's Thrush.

Whether through our research projects like Costa Rica's Sustainable Coffee (working with local farmers to develop and refine coffee growing techniques that are good for the environment and the local economy), or Macaws of the Peruvian Amazon (seeking data to protect endangered birds and habitats as well as promote responsible eco-tourism practices in the region), to name just two, we try to make sure that emerging and developing local economies don't continue along the unsustainable path we've perfected in the US.

Preferred habitat: Coastal woods, swamps, boggy streams + + + + Foliage / winter appearance: almost evergreen + + + + Soil conditions: loam, clay, tolerates poor drainage + + + + Light conditions: dappled shade to full sun + + + + Plant spacing: 20 feet + + + + Wildlife value: leaves favored by deer; berry - like seeds eaten by many bird species and small mammals; leaves are used in bird nest building

Preferred habitat: coastal woods, along streams, open woodlands, thickets + + + + Foliage / winter appearance: semi-evergreen to dormant in winter + + + + Soil conditions: loam, clay, well drained + + + + Light conditions: shade to full sun + + + + Plant spacing: 3 to 4 feet apart + + + + Wildlife value: hummingbirds, butterflies, and other wildlife are attracted to this plant; hummingbirds like the flowers while birds and mammals enjoy the fruit; attracts Cloudless Sulphur; Gray Hairstreak larvae eat the leaves; also a good butterfly nectar source

Preferred habitat: coastal woods + + + + Foliage / winter appearance: deciduous, leaves turn red in fall + + + + Soil conditions: loam, clay, tolerates poor drainage + + + + Light conditions: dappled shade to full sun + + + + Plant spacing: 15 to 20 feet + + + + Wildlife value: a favorite nesting site for many birds; Fox Sparrows and Cedar Waxwings like the apple - like fruits; butterfly larvae eat foliage; Harvest Butterfly, Northern Hairstreak, and Red Spotted Purple larvae eat the foliage + + + + Note: an excellent accent plant that has several striking features

Not birds with narrow habitat needs like the northern spotted owl, but common, yard birds.

The research provided information to forest managers to help conserve bird biodiversity and keep habitats safe for species at risk, including species like the Canada warbler, olive - sided flycatcher and the rusty blackbird.

«Working lands, like those managed by SFI - certified companies, represent some of the best opportunities for conserving forest bird breeding habitat,» says Jim Shallow, conservation and policy director for Audubon Vermont.

Researchers hope that by finding and tracking the birds, which hide out during the day in their burrows, they can protect them from predators like dogs, cats and foxes, and habitat loss.

Farmed bamboo provides habitat for birds, and isn't the same species that pandas like to eat.