Sentences with phrase «migratory bird populations»

«This legislation is urgently needed to help the Americas» diminishing migratory bird populations,» said Jennifer Cipolletti, ABC's Deputy Director of Policy.

The agency enforces Federal wildlife laws, administers the Endangered Species Act, manages migratory bird populations, restores nationally significant fisheries, conserves and restores wildlife habitat such as wetlands, and helps foreign and Native American Tribal governments with their conservation efforts.

«This legislation is urgently needed to help the Americas» diminishing migratory bird populations,» said Jennifer Cipolletti, ABC's Deputy Director of Policy.

To investigate the impacts of climate fluctuations on Northwestern migratory bird populations, ecologist M. Philip Nott and colleagues at the Institute for Bird Populations in Point Reyes Station, California, captured birds in «mist» nets at 36 stations in forests of Oregon and Washington between 1992 and 2000.

Not exact matches

Special emphasis is given to the protection of trees as a habitat for migratory and local bird populations as well as other wildlife.

Special emphasis is given to the protection of big trees as habitat for migratory and local bird populations and other wildlife species — a requirement not present in SAN's current 2010 standard.

choice of bird, as many populations are not migratory, and those that do winter in the northern tropics are found in lowlands and avoid higher elevations, where most coffee would be grown.

The average age of this whooping crane population is increasing and as generations of birds learn these migratory paths, their numbers may continue to rise.

The agency concluded that the farm will have minimal impact on the population of migratory birds, the activity of local sea life and the ocean views of the politically powerful.

Once there, oil could hammer marsh dwellers, nesting shorebirds, migratory shorebirds on heroic migrations from South America traveling to as far north as the Arctic, and some fishing birds whose main populations thrive in the Gulf.

The Migratory Bird Center's Website, too, suggests the outlook for the catbird population is quite good:

Director of the Smithsonian Institute Migratory Bird Center Peter Marra points out reliable estimates of unconfined cat populations are as difficult to formulate as, well, herding cats.

These stopover sites throughout the Americas are of vital importance to the survival of migratory birds — on an individual level as well as for entire populations of species.

Along with the largest population of West Indian flamingos in the world, the park has over 140 species of native and migratory birds, wild donkeys and hogs.

They are home to over 100 species of migratory birds and support globally important populations of Black - Necked Grebe, African Spoonbill, Pied Avocet, Little Grebe, Yellow Billed Stork, Black Winged Stilt, Grey - Headed Gull and Gull Billed Tern.

Meanwhile sanctuaries such as the La Tovara National Park and mangrove ecoregion in San Blas is «one of the most important winter habitats for birds in the Pacific, home to 80 % of the Pacific migratory shore bird populations.»

The range is home to a number of important conservation targets which include, but are not limited to, at least 2 marine fish spawning aggregation sites, a breeding population of the endangered American Crocodile, and a number of threatened coastal marine habitats including the greater reef complex itself, beach forests that support several important species of resident and migratory birds and at least 2 species of marine turtles are believed to nest on the range.

Canada's Boreal Forest is also the reservoir for a large fraction of North America's clean, fresh water, home to about 5 billion migratory birds, and some of the largest remaining populations of caribou, moose, bear and wolves on the planet.

«Our study clearly showed that European migratory bird species with declining breeding populations in Europe in the last decades (1990 — 2000) responded the least to recent climate change as reflected by the temporal trend in spring migration phenology, or even delayed their timing of spring migration, whereas species with stable or increasing populations advanced migration.»

Well, the temporal mismatch is probably a broad phenomenon, leading to various population declines among European migratory birds, although some species seem to adapt better than others.

And then imagine the delayed arrival of a migratory bird, hoping to feed on that local caterpillar population, finding it is starving due to its own temporal mismatch.

A migratory bird with even stronger continued population decline is the Black - throated loon (Gavia Arctica) also known as Arctic loon.

Other long - distance migratory birds with population declines are the spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) and the common redshank (Tringa tetanus) a wader that breeds along intertidal habitats in northern Europe, and that splits in subpopulations during winter months, some birds staying in Europe, others flying to Africa.

Influences outside the breeding season can matter a lot for the population health of migratory birds, but it's tough to track what happens once species scatter across South America for the winter months.

Seabirds and migratory birds have been found to drop in population and move nesting times in efforts to counter the lack of water.

Birds are resourceful creatures when it comes to finding places to nest or roost: In Portland, a migratory population of up to 14,000 swifts stops off every year in an old chimney at a local school.