Sentences with phrase «migration routes»

We are investigating the best means of monitoring whale migration routes at all three islands.

Furthermore, the time it takes to gain settlement rights is out of line with the time it takes to gain the same rights through other migration routes, such as the employment route.

They invariably conclude that wind farms may be built in the habitat of rare birds, or across migration routes.

The best bet is to open up existing migration routes, acknowledge migration as an acceptable and effective form of adaptation and facilitate it whenever it is possible and safe.

Wind farms are now encroaching into critical habitats of the Peregrine Falcon, Bald Eagles, Golden Eagle, Spotted Owls, Ferruginous Hawks, Great Gray Owl and along primary migration routes of all bird species.

The GTRI team also has plans to work with landowners to ensure the maintenance of migration routes for tortoises as they pass through private farmland.

Your experience begins at the edge of NOAA's Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, and is sandwiched between Highway 1, a National Scenic Byway, and the Pacific Whale Trail, the grey whale migration route from the feeding grounds of Alaska to the breeding grounds of Baja.

At the University of Kansas, Monarch Watch has enlisted supporters to create nearly 7,450 so - called way stations, milkweed - rich backyards and other feeding and breeding spots along migration routes on the East and West Coasts and the Midwest.

Certain points on migration routes are known as «eider passes.»

The aim of this project is to reduce deaths of protected birds along the Via Aristoteles, an important migration route in western Bulgaria.

Shapiro, too, now favours the theory of a coastal migration route for humans.

The AEWA is an agreement to protect waterfowl along their entire migration route between Africa and Eurasia.

«Paleorivers across Sahara may have supported ancient human migration routes.»

By blocking migration routes or changing water levels, dams change seed dispersal patterns, says Sandra Bibiana Correa, a freshwater ecologist at Mississippi State University in Starkville.

The Chukchi Sea is also part of the seasonal migration route for Bowhead whales that supports subsistence hunting by local indigenous communities.

Our Wild sockeye salmon, fresh from the icy waters of the North Pacific, comes only from abundant, sustainable runs and is harvested in specific migration routes to avoid harming less abundant species.

New genomic data suggest that the first human settlers on the Scandinavian peninsula followed two distinct migration routes.

From small transmitters used to study migration routes of butterflies to cameras in nest boxes recording breeding activities of great tits, state - of - the - art and expensive technical equipment is essential for today's ecological science.

GPS tracking devices on 17 birds showed that the landfill life might mean up to 100 - kilometer round - trips to feed — healthy distances, but far shorter than their historic migration routes.

At the Natural History Museum in London, for example, Chris Stringer, an expert on modern human origins, continues to lean toward a terrestrial migration route out of Africa.

This area is an important migration route for wild Pacific salmon, where open net - cage salmon farms can increase pathogen risks to wild salmon.

Gray whales have the longest migration route of any mammal and some of these giants swim as much as 20,000 kilometers (12,000 miles) round - trip from their summer stay in BC and Alaskan waters to the warmer waters off the Mexican coast.

His work on show at Galerie Lelong's space, in turn, deals with migration routes towards Europe.

How that might affect migration routes and whale interaction as coastlines become more urbanized is yet to be uncovered.

Social networking connects the Eritrean child with his cousin in the Netherlands, and then again with potential smugglers, gaining precious information on the best migration routes, incumbent risks and the cost involved in advance.

Are birds» migration routes mainly the result of instinct or do they need practice, learning, and experience?

One of the logical migration routes from Africa to Europe leads through the Levantine corridor.

The effects of building a massive concrete wall range from increased emissions to blocked wildlife migration routes

While it may not include the thrill of the chase inherent in the live tracking of animals, DNA is nevertheless useful for discerning migration routes — especially if those migrations happened thousands of years ago.

After asserting hunting rights tied to historic treaties in recent years, the Nez Perce and three other tribes already hunt those bison that follow ancient migration routes outside the park and into Montana in search of winter range.

It gets us a big step closer to showing that a coastal migration route happened, or was at least possible.»

If scientists map leatherback migration routes, for instance, they can work to keep fishing boats out of those channels.

«The Caucasus region sits almost at a crossroads of the Eurasian landmass, with arguably the most sensible migration routes both west and east in the vicinity.»

After summering in the Delaware Bay, the two males migrated south in the fall and were around other males of about their same size, leading the researchers to theorize that the females took a different migration route in October - November.

They simulated how it would have felt — magnetically speaking — for the eels to have been in four different locations along their larval migration route from the Sargasso to Europe.

(B) Spore transmission frequencies along principal migration routes in the Rift Valley zone for the scenario of large outbreaks.

Some 32 % of deaths occurred outside these zones — including on unprotected migration routes — but during the times of year that the SMAs would be in effect.

Archaeologists are finding discoidal cores all along the Pacific coast — the putative migration route for the first Americans.

The positive impacts are not limited to Finland either, since the restoration benefits all birds that migrate to the north along the Gulf of Finland migration route — all the way to Siberia.

Scientists used a microlight plane to show hand - raised birds their ancestral migration route from Austria to Italy.

In addition, such a network of protected areas could support Flyway, or migration route conservation, as highlighted in international conventions.

«Thus this area was not only a potential migration route between Africa and Eurasia, in either direction, but it could also have been a melting pot on numerous occasions.»

Trucking juvenile fish increases survival by bypassing the high - mortality migration route from rivers to the ocean, but it also increases connectivity among rivers because the fish do not have the experience to know which river to return to as breeding adults.

Pens are normally placed in or near migration routes, where passing wild salmon are susceptible to the parasitic sea lice and viruses that can infest farmed salmon.

The Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance hosts a sea turtle tracking map to help understand migration routes and to educate middle school and high school students through an interactive «Great Migration Game» tracking Jklynn, a female Hawksbill sea turtle.

[39] More than 300 species of birds have been observed in Point Loma, which lies on the Pacific Flyway migration route.