Sentences with phrase «mud flats»

Right now, sticky mud flats are dominated by salt cedar, an invasive species.

The diversity in wildlife is a result of the considerable mud flats that run throughout the area.

Many have to eke out a living on mud flats of the fan - shaped delta, where the river meets the Arabian Sea.

The BTO says the birds need access to uncovered mud flats in daylight, and power generation schemes which change the timing and extent of the water's retreat could reduce the bird population.

The tidal mud flats of the Langebaan Lagoon attract thousands of migratory birds every year, as well as attracting bird watchers who come to view over 300 species of birds found in the lagoon waters.

Always visit an island before buying: you may be surprised to discover it's surrounded by acres of mud flats at low tide, or that it's so far away from grocery stores and parking that it's next to impossible to live on.

The tidal mud flats of the lagoon also attract thousands of migratory birds every year, and resident species are prolific and include greater and lesser flamingoes.

Bird life is plentiful, especially at low tide when shallow mud flats rich in intertidal invertebrates are exposed.

I stomped on low - tide mud flats to elicit the squirt of buried clams.

The beaches here are mostly narrow strips of white sand in calm, shallow bays that transform into mud flats at low tide — thus for most beaches you'll need to time your swim sessions with the shifting of the tides.

This spring, «Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia» will celebrate works from the past, including the Emeryville mud flats sculptures between Berkeley and Oakland and the radical actions of the Dutch group the Provos.

An photo by Robert Sommer of the construction of one of the Emeryville mud flats sculptures, c. 1960s, on view this spring in BAMPFA's «Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia» exhibition.

Bechtel is the construction and engineering contractor on the first LNG export plant built in the U.S. outside Alaska — the Sabine Pass project in the Louisiana mud flats on the Gulf of Mexico.

The waters really would have been parted, with barriers of water raised on both sides of the newly exposed mud flats.

Mud flat organisms become established encouraging other life forms changing the organic composition of the soils.

In 2013, at Happisburgh on the eastern coast of England, wave action revealed human footprints on a tidal mud flat beside an eroding cliff.

At Walvis Bay in Namibia, a scouring wind pushes sand dunes across an ancient mud flat.

Environmentalists have also attacked it for destroying marsh and mud flats used by thousands of birds.

The third is environmental: the natural mud flats and salt marshes of the coast are havens for tens of thousands of birds and other wildlife, but they are being squeezed between rising sea levels and sea walls.

«For example, some members of the community believe that the local mud flats are also a source of PCBs.

«The difficulty,» said Avijit «is that you can only spot a tiger if it come out onto the open mud flats and these are only exposed at low tide».

At times, in the shallow mud flats immediately encountered after leaving San Pedro Lagoon, one will find one of the more ornate smaller murexes spawning, probably Cabrit's Murex (Murex cabritii).

Start off at Phuket's West Coast and drive to the East Coast to see mud flats and mangrove swamps.

The park has 330km2 of underwater forest, bush plains and of course, the centrepiece, Lake Manyara, which has alkaline waters with a pH level near 9.5 during the wet season but turns to a large area of mud flats during the dry spells.

We see electricity towers and car details such as hood ornaments; cracked glass, crazed and flaking paint; desiccated mud flats, striated sand eroded by the surf or strewn with stands of kelp.

In the late 1990s his ongoing investigation of architectural and social space evolved into large - scale interentions, from the 300 closely ranked reinforced concrete blocks of Allotment (1996) to the 100 solitary cast iron figures facing towards the horizon on the coastal mud flats at Cuxhaven, northern Germany (Another Place, 1997).

Then you have light brown mud flat, low reddish - brown succulents like glasswort, mid-green taller rushes and arrowgrass, then finally yellow - green short trees like mangroves.

Fishes that live between the tides are alternately buffeted by waves and isolated in pools and on mud flats.

Most are in East Anglia, but other possible sites could be in the northwest, around the Ribble estuary and Morecambe Bay, which have the greatest expanse of salt marshes and mud flats in England.

The oil may contribute to the roots of these sea grasses being wiped out, and then the banks where they sit transform into mud flats.

• Mud Flat at Low Tide (1912) Private Collection.

The Sundarbans: a near - mythic landscape of forest and swamp, byzantine river channels and tidal mud flats, one of the last strongholds of the highly endangered Bengal tiger.

Anyone stranded on the mud flats would have been at risk of drowning, said the scientists, whose findings are reported today in the online journal Public Library of Science ONE.

Essentially it was a mud flat with the odd patch of grass attempting to show through.

When the river overflows its banks, it carries the soils from the floodplain and eroded upland agricultural soils down - stream creating sand dunes, mud flats, and deltas.»

More than 1.5 million years ago, several human ancestors wandered across a mud flat at what is now Ileret, Kenya.

One is geomorphological: erosion provides the sediment that builds up the natural coastal defences of other areas of coastline, by forming marshes or beaches, shingle bars or mud flats.

Their absence on the mud flats is because many appear to migrate to the upper reaches of the harbour where they cluster around surface water sewer outfalls.

While symbiotic relationships in coral reefs have been known for some time, the discovery of hydrothermal vents in 1977 has spurred an interest in symbiotic relationships, and led to their recognition in many other types of habitats, such as mangrove swamps, mud flats, and sewage outlets.

In preparation for the local release, we chat to the delightful director about movies, music, mud flats, and the titular mad bastards.

Down below I think of the mud flats of the bay.

After my experience in the mud flats, I never complained about the price of a package of frozen bloodworms again, and I realized that the store that sold them must have made a huge percentage of its profit strictly on this one item.

The UF VETS team also recently coordinated the rescue of «Midnight» the horse from a mud flat in Paynes Prairie.

It was magnificent to watch them and also the egrets that mingled nonchalantly among them punctuating the cuppocino hued monkeys, and smudges of dark beige of the mud flats with the bright white of their long white necks and feathers.

It was laying on the mud flat soaking in the rays only giving itself away with a slight movement of the tail before it flitted off.

So it was amid this watery network of tidal waterways, mud flats, small islands and mangrove forests, that I took my chances.

We followed the trail along the mud flats but these trailed off into the mangrove and away from sight.

The region encompasses intraisland lagoons, mud flats, sink holes, mangroves forests, savannahs, semideciduous forest and is home to many different animals.

The black mangrove (Avicennia sp.), recognized by its many pneumatophores sticking up from the roots through the mud flats or supratidal to intertidal sands which generally surround it, usually forms «forests» along more sheltered areas of the shore.