Sentences with phrase «migrating land birds»

Those enormous blades also exact a toll on many species of marine birds, raptors and migrating land birds, and even bats that are attracted to the turbines as far as 14 km (9 miles) offshore.

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The biodiversity of the tundras is low: 1,700 species of flora and only 48 land mammals can be found, although thousands of insects and birds migrate there each year for the marshes.

This is also major stopover habitat, where migrating birds are not merely flying over, but landing and taking off — often during poor weather conditions.