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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.

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The subtle portrayals of migrating birds in Jochen Lempert's photographs reveal the artist's original training as an animal biologist, as he documents these nomadic animals in their temporary habitats of city streets and concrete architecture.

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.

«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.»

Not exact matches

The ponds of leftover toxic waste threaten millions of migrating birds, and studies have identified health problems in the nearby indigenous communities linked to pollution.

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?

Should I go to church this morning and repent, again, or head out for a hike and enjoy the fall colors, migrating birds, and the chill in the air?

Can science tell you why birds migrate south in the winter?

«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.

And, as far as sweet little birds, when I lived in AZ, the migrating hummingbirds would tap at my kitchen window when the feeder was empty.

2 - Rare Vernal Pools at the Santa Rosa Plateau For the first time in three years, winter rains have filled the large, natural, vernal pools dramatically drawing in migrating birds.

There, you can read about Hispaniola's great biodiversity, including 30 endemic bird species; the importance of the island to birds that winter and migrate through the West Indies and breed in North America; and the critical role of shade coffee in preserving habitat on an island with a very high level of deforestation.

Many of the bird species that nest and breed in the United States, then migrate to Central and South America for the winter.

When the birds migrated last spring there were 26 whooping cranes left — in the entire population of the species.

Until the migrating birds arrive back in Chicago, there's still time to create your own.

Francis R. Dickinson canoeing to bird blind for taking images of migrating birds at the Paul Rainey Bird Sanctuary in Louisiana, ca. 1bird blind for taking images of migrating birds at the Paul Rainey Bird Sanctuary in Louisiana, ca. 1Bird Sanctuary in Louisiana, ca. 1932.

He has campaigned on numerous Animal Welfare causes such as against puppy smuggling [8] and has supported the Dogs Trust UK as well as BirdLife Malta in its campaign against the hunting of migrating birds.

A crucial feeding ground for migrating birds has been almost destroyed by pollution and a bad winter, but help is at hand in the form of an all - you - can - eat buffet

The measurements suggest that for 200 days, all three swifts remained airborne while migrating to and wintering in Africa, implying that the birds can sleep on the wing (Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038 / ncomms3554).

The birds that migrate to the south side of the lake in winter still draw bird watchers, but that is primarily because all the marshlands in the Imperial Valley, where the Salton Sea lies, are taken up by agriculture.

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.

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

• Numerous bird species in both Europe and North America now migrate four days earlier in spring and breed nearly five days earlier.

An ornithologist at the University of Rhode Island who studies the physiological changes that birds undergo to migrate has found that the capacity of a bird's gut to change with environmental conditions is a primary limiting factor in their ability to adapt to the rapidly changing climate.

An ornithologist who studies the physiological changes that birds undergo to migrate has found that the capacity of a bird's gut to change with environmental conditions is a primary limiting factor in their ability to adapt to the rapidly changing climate.

A study in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment shows that the birds that took down U.S. Airways Flight 1549 were migrating geese, not a local N.Y.C. population — important info for development of aviation bird avoidance techniques.

This was in the late 1950s, and the thinking at the time was that migrating birds navigated using the sun, moon and stars.

Much as migrating birds or spawning insects rely on the timing of spring so that there is enough available food when they arrive in a given region, so, too, the salmon rely on the timing of phytoplankton blooms, followed by the zooplankton bloom that then feeds baby salmon.

This tricks the birds into thinking the people are their parents, allowing the team to later guide young birds to migrate south to Florida for the winter by leading them in ultralight aircraft.

The birds have stopped migrating in favor of feasting at garbage sites like this one.

Increased energy consumption of larger flapping birds, such as cranes, geese, and swans that migrate between Japan and Siberia or travel similar distances in other parts of the world, limits their migration to shorter distances.

So ornithologist Thomas Alerstam of Lund University in Sweden and colleagues used the radar on a Canadian icebreaker in the Northwest Passage to measure the direction of migrating birds flying past.

And it is Audubon who in 1833 identified the passenger pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius, as the most numerous bird on the continent, highlighting the point by describing a mile - wide flock of migrating pigeons that passed over his head and blocked the sun for three straight days.

But such fragility could help migrating birds find their way, scientists report in the June New Journal of Physics.

In contrast, migration ranges of soaring birds, illustrated by raptors, vultures, and albatrosses that migrate globally with minimal energy consumption, are larger than those of flapping birds and independent of body size.

«Novel technology reveals aerodynamics of migrating birds flying in a V - formation.»

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

I particularly liked the chapters on «dangerous journeys» (a look at the threats to migrating birds) and «light effects» (the problems of comparing birds in the field to pictures in books), both being well presented and illustrated.

In the introduction, Bill Oddie talks about his schooldays of birdwatching and the lack of field guides, let alone books which were suitable for children covering other aspects of ornithology, he used to «just look up and wonder» at migrating birds.

But there is hope that periodic flows will bring back willow, mesquite, and cottonwood trees, revive insects and dormant crustaceans, give respite to birds migrating on the Pacific Flyway, and ease strains on fisheries in the Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California).

When birds are migrating south in the fall, these pile - ups would happen on the north side of the lakes rather than the south.

The situation with some birds that migrate along coasts seems to be improving, but other shorebirds are in big trouble.

The United Kingdom is closer to blackcap breeding grounds in central Europe than is Spain, so the northwest - migrating birds return home 10 days earlier and start mating among themselves.

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.

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.

There's no dignity in science for a warbler popped head - down in a weighing scale as part of a massive effort to track migrating birds

Each year some 50 billion birds take to the skies to migrate, an often gruelling pilgrimage associated with changes in diet, physiology and behaviour.