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By John Murawski State officials have approved a proposed 49 - turbine wind farm in Eastern North Carolina that critics worry could kill migrating birds from the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge nearby.

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

Not exact matches

«There are many sorts of knowing from nature around us which give us clues and analogies to the nature of faith in God -LSB-...] Even a bird will migrate year after year to one precise spot, from some inborn power to orientate itself.

Fossil records from Abaco suggest that these birds resided on the island year - round, as opposed to migrating there in winter.

When birds are migrating from south to north in the spring, they are roughly.

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.

Whether blackcaps will eventually diverge into different species depends on the fitness of offspring from crosses between northwest - and southwest - migrating birds, says evolutionary biologist Darren Irwin of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in Canada.

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

Between 2006 and 2014, Nelson, Katzner, and their colleagues trapped 42 migrating and wintering eagles, outfitted them with GPS trackers, and collected feather samples from those same birds.

A trove of scientific notes from the early 1900s suggests a warming climate is driving birds to migrate earlier to New York's Mohonk Preserve.

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.

Their findings reveal that H5N8 was most likely carried by long - distance flights of infected migrating wild birds from Asia to Europe and North America via their breeding grounds in the Arctic.

More than 10,000 migrating birds in the U.S. have died from an outbreak of avian cholera caused by reduced water flowing through marshlands of Oregon and California, according to federal wildlife officials.

There is at least one reason to ban each type of animal from retail sales, but most Michigan communities have a store selling small birds, animals and fish, like Petco, PetSmart and Pet Supplies Plus, that will have to migrate away from small animal sales first.

Other species of birds, such as grebes and loons migrate from Baja California over the nearshore waters, and will stop to fish and feed.

Stop at the Elephant Seal Vista Point area to watch elephant seals as they sunbathe, look for migrating grey whales from the designated Whale Trail viewing spots or take a forest walk to spot unique birds.

As happens from time to time with some Asian bird species, this gull migrated the wrong way.

Visit S'Albufera des Grau wetlands to get up - close to turtles and migrating birds or explore the island's distinctive barrancs (deep ravines and canyons which run from the central part of the island to coast), home to Peregrines, Egyptian vultures and booted eagles.

From the solitary birds of prey such as the Brahminy kite, pictured at top and bottom, to the flocks of migrating terns gathered on the beach to feed and rest before moving on.

With its of over 45,000 acres, Palo Verde National park is home to over 250,000 thousands birds flock to migrate and there are also 15 different kinds of habitats from mangroves to swamps.

He exhibited regularly at the prestigious Willard Gallery in New York from 1949 to 1965, and he was included in numerous museum exhibitions during his lifetime, among them the «Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting» (now called the «Carnegie «International») in 1955, and received the Popularity Prize for a 1953 painting called «Migrating Birds.»

At the bottom edge, a bird that seems to have migrated from a Paul Klee painting offers a great excuse for the display of more color.

«Migrating from continent to continent like a restless bird in search of propitious seasons, casting his glance across all cultures, Mark Tobey was one of the few 20th century artists who was truly cosmopolitan and in fact trans - avant - garde.»

Elsewhere, drawing from a lighter poetic imagery, Barbara Visser and Gintaras Didžiapetris use a flock of migrating birds as a natural metaphor, while Thomas Bakker screens footage of a wandering air balloon and Hella Jongerius contributes an hour - by - hour color changing spectrum.

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However, the targeted coastal plain hosts migratory bird species and endangered wildlife and is considered to be sacred to the indigenous Gwich «in people, who sustain themselves from the caribou that migrate there.

A team of researchers has found that this technology for wind energy is not only deadly to local birds but also those migrating from hundreds of miles away.

More than 10,000 migrating birds in the U.S. have died from an outbreak of avian cholera caused by reduced water flowing through marshlands of Oregon and California, according to federal wildlife officials.

Environmentalists warn that the construction threatens the desert ecosystem, while the heated plumes of air from the towers could singe migrating birds.

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.

These clues include the earlier spring arrivals of migrating birds, earlier blooming of wildflowers and Washington DC's cherry trees, melting glaciers and icecaps, micro-fossils from cores of mud from the ocean floor, and bubbles of ancient air retrieved from cores of glacial ice.

Millions of birds migrate along the Pacific Flyway each year, traveling along an aerial highway that stretches from Mexico up to the Arctic.

This time, the problem is with a species of bird that is staying put in the winter months instead of migrating south.A new report from the U.S. Geological Survey published in Arctic reveals the Pacific brant, a small sea goose, is now wintering in sub-Arctic areas.

Researchers Stephen Matthews and Paul Rodewald from Ohio State University found that «even a small urban forest can help migrating birds... [which] used the patches of greenery to rest and refuel in the middle of their journey between winter and breeding sites,» the BBC reported Friday.

The species feeds primarily on migratory birds that use the island as a rest - stop, so of course potential changes from sea level rise or any changes in the habits of migrating birds could also spell disaster for the species.

«They migrate in family flocks from four or five birdhouses along a trail — some 30 to 40 birds — heading south and then they migrate back here as a family as well,» says Loades.