Sentences with phrase «migratory routes»

Part of a major migratory route for birds in the spring and fall, Cape May Point State Park is also home to a World War II bunker.

Whether an amazing glacier in Greenland; the Northern Lights in Sweden or whale migratory route in Iceland, it is important that, while enjoying these amazing destinations on a luxury adventure holiday, we also help preserve them for future generations to come.

Wind turbines along migratory routes have proven deadly for raptors like the golden eagle, but turbines can't hold a candle to domestic cats or building collisions.

Species in the Arctic, such as caribou, may lose vital migratory routes as ice bridges between islands melt.

Some reside here regularly, some pass through on migratory routes, and others only show up to utilize a certain food source.

As migratory species often move annually in response to seasonal climate changes, their behaviour, including migratory routes, is sensitive to climate.

Early works included A Life Full of Holes: The Strait Project (1998 - 2004), exploring everyday life in and around the post-colonial city Tangier, evoking through their absence the perilous migratory routes crossing the Strait of Gibraltar.

«Elephants are using well - known migratory routes into Botswana to flee threats from neighboring countries,» says Mark Hiley, cofounder of the UK - based nonprofit National Park Rescue.

Using data on all the ultralight - trained birds» spring and fall migrations from 2002 to 2009, the researchers found that neither genetic relatedness nor gender had any effect on the whooping cranes» tendency to stay on the shortest migratory route.

Given such uncertainties, researchers are more likely to be persuaded that a mutation has been recently selected if they understand its function and if its rise in prevalence meshes well with known human migratory routes.

Preservice teachers are helping children understand the data (read maps and compare migratory routes) and participate in the online discussion forum.

Here at Golden Gate, several species are in the «running» for completing the most arduous migratory route.

The route combines elephant migratory routes with those of ivory, gold and slave merchant routes, and crosses some of the most beautiful terrain in the country.

Two Pacific Ocean populations are known to exist: one of not more than 130 individuals (according to the most recent population assessment in 2008 [31]-RRB- whose migratory route is presumed to be between the Sea of Okhotsk and southern Korea, and a larger one with a population between 20,000 and 22,000 individuals in the eastern Pacific traveling between the waters off northernmost Alaska and Baja California Sur.

The current migratory routes and wintering areas in the WNP are enigmatic, but historical evidence indicates that

«We intend to use our influence and expertise to protect it, focusing on reef conservation and on creating safe migratory routes for the endangered species that travel this coastline, from turtles to humpback whales.»

Built on a gently sloping hill, this riverine lodge, positioned on the renowned migratory route traversed annually by more than 2 million wildebeests, is a place where you can quite literally expect the unexpected.

In the Chukchi Sea, vessel traffic from the Red Dog Iron Mine has already caused the beluga population to alter their seasonal migratory route.

The B.C. government is currently considering renewing tenures for 20 open net - pen salmon farms in the Broughton Archipelago, a wild salmon migratory route.

There was no sign last fall of such secondary infections occurring along migratory routes.

The diverse geographical locations of the different minke whale subspecies makes it problematic to get a clear picture of their numbers, migratory routes as well as threats to these gentle mammals.

That passage is a migratory route for bowhead whales, and also bearded seals and ringed seals.

Their migratory route overlaps with the general path of hurricanes traveling from the waters off Africa up to the United States, a new study finds.

«It is an unsolved question as to where the cells are redistributed during sleep since we can not follow their migratory route in healthy humans.

Their migratory routes take them through some of the busiest commercial fishing areas along the East Coast of the United States and into Canada.

These responses are appropriate for keeping young turtles within the gyre system and facilitating movement along the migratory route.»

«In short, this is one of the first studies that examines the entire complex of terns breeding in inland US locations, along with migratory routes, stopover areas, and wintering sites.

With a grid of electric coils, they simulated magnetic fields found at three critical points in the turtles» migratory routes.

As Meridian notes towards the end of her own life, «I think about unseen connections, the forces that beckon birds along their migratory routes, that pull people together and split them from each other.»

It's home to more than 27 different types of whales and dolphins, and the Santa Barbara Channel is in the migratory route for gray whales, making this one of the best places for whale watching in the world.

include the migratory routes of these whales.

Blue whales use the Southern California Bight as a part of their migratory routes.

the coastal waters of eastern Russia, the Korean Peninsula and Japan were part of the migratory route and that

The area is a migratory route for whales and dolphins as well as several species of sharks.

This includes taking photo ID of whales flukes which helps in their estimation of population and migratory routes.

Eden is one of the few places in the world where Humpback Whales visit on their migratory route.

See amazing mantas and oceanic sunfish on their migratory routes as they pass Nusa Penida Island, southeast of the Bali Read More...

Critics of windmill farms say they kill birds because they often are located in migratory routes.

A monarch butterfly fed on silky red milkweed at one of the 7,450 Monarch Watch way stations spread along migratory routes.

An example is migratory birds that seasonally inhabit forests as well as grasslands and visit wetlands on their migratory routes.

Turbines and their associated transmission lines dominate scenic vistas, disrupt habitats and migratory routes, affect water drainage patterns, impede crop dusting and other activities, and kill bats, raptors and other birds, including endangered species that would bring major fines if the corporate killers were oil or mining companies.

Changes in bird's migratory routes are also observed under ENSO climatic fluctuations.

Because of regional differences in the expected climatic changes, these could also affect the migratory routes birds take, possibly putting a greater strain on individual species.

In some coastal areas, turtles are altering their migratory routes and nesting sites, the report's authors write.

The Convention also provides a framework for a number of smaller agreements that allow countries to collaborate on conservation efforts for specific species throughout their migratory route.

The impact to the migratory routes in this area will likely be immense and long reaching.

Newly available shipping lanes through the Northwest Passage would greatly shorten the trip between Europe and East Asia, but would likely cross the migratory route of any right whales that occupy the region.It's vital that we know about right whales in this area in order to effectively avoid ship strikes on what could be a quite fragile population.