Sentences with phrase «migrating birds did»

And this year, according to Perry Plumart of the National Audubon Society, which has been lobbying states and the federal government to protect the crabs for several years, many migrating birds did not leave at their normal body weight — suggesting that fewer eggs were available.

Squadrons of planes can save fuel by flying in a V formation, and many scientists suspect that migrating birds do the same.

Not exact matches

What can be done to prevent migrating birds from getting drawn into the deadly allure of artificial illumination?

Who do you think invented the migrating birds, the fall colors, the chill in the air and gave us the free will to enjoy creation and / or worship the creator?

Even resident birds that do not migrate in the spring and autumn have a magnetic sense and navigate using their internal magnetic compass.

«The abundance of fossils, the presence of young birds among the fossils, and the evolution of a shorter wingspan in the Eastern Bluebird all suggest that these birds did not migrate to the island but were a resident population.

«That doesn't mean genetics doesn't play a role, but we didn't find that birds migrate similarly if they're closely related to one another,» says Mueller.

The brains of migratory birds tend to be smaller than those of similar - sized species that do not migrate.

Not only do birds flock together but so too do countless examples throughout life, from the macroscopic to the microscopic, including schools of fish, colonies of bacteria, groups of migrating cells and even some proteins.

Working with Duke University neurobiologist Erich Jarvis, Mouritsen compared his birds» brains to Zebra Finches and Canaries, which don't migrate.

Alternatively, the birds may have lost their ability to fly simply because they didn't need to migrate or escape from predators.

This explanation seemed simplest: most songbirds in the Americas, including those that do not migrate, live in the South American tropics, and almost every migratory bird species has close relatives in the tropics.

The study takes a wide view of the world's songbirds, putting empirical evidence behind the observation that tropical birds are more colorful than their cousins from temperate climates, probably because they do not migrate.

Not only did they come up with a fully automatic method to teach users how to identify visually similar species, but they also designed a system that can pinpoint which birds are arriving, departing, or migrating.

«I don't know how it came to be,» he informed her once it became clear she would not be abandoning her streetcar commute, «but it looks like you turned out the migrating bird in a family of pigeons.»

Did You Know: Bird watchers flock to Fort Collins to observe the roughly 60,000 Canadian Geese that migrate through the area each year.

Did you Know that your Yard may be an Important Rest Stop for Migrating Birds?

As you take in the impressive expanse of untouched natural beauty, don't forget to look for migrating whales, frolicking dolphins and a variety of sea birds.

Comparing 100 European migratory bird species — some migrate sooner, some do not, and probably the ones that winter in Africa are most vulnerable to climate change But then of course we have to exclude the possibility that it's just a flycatcher phenomenon — there's always one that oversleeps, right?

This is why these things are decimating migrating birds, best wind sites are also the migration routes for birds flying south in winter, and nobody did the assessments to learn this.

Significant environmental risks are present including the serious impact on migrating birds that congregate in this area; Ontario does not need the power from this project.

I do not really compare pigeons and migrating wild birds.

If clearing is not done by that date it would be a major set back for the company and plans could not proceed until after the migrating birds had left.

The two things Floridians do have in fall is a dry season which makes all our tropicals burst into bloom and an influx of migrating birds.