Sentences with phrase «number of birds in»

In the off chance that you miss a particular species, the impressive number of birds in the Belize Zoo is a fantastic backup option.

A study published in Ecological Applications led by Professor John Swaddle, visiting Research Associate at the University of Exeter, found that filling a controlled area with acoustic noise around an airfield, where the majority of collisions tend to take place, can reduce the number of birds in the area by 80 per cent.

Results showed a large decrease in the number of birds in the «sonic net» and areas just outside and found that it was particularly effective at deterring a number of species that were at high risk of bird strike such as starlings.

You have a huge number of birds in lowland tropical rainforests, and no obvious geographic isolation barriers that would nudge lineages to evolve differently.

But neighbors quickly rallied against the proposal, citing, in part, the possible risk of fire if the turbine were installed in the middle of the woods and the large number of birds in the nature preserve surrounding the lake.

These results suggest that limited food availability is a key factor in the reduced number of birds in conventionally farmed areas.

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Tusk Ventures is an investor in Bird, and Bradley Tusk recently told me that the bike and scooter sharing trend «could very well be the source of a lot of fights in the most number of jurisdictions in 2018.»

Shelton was the kind of manager who could recite the details involved in every step of production, from the density of breeding cages to the number of birds processed per man - hour.

Two new studies from Europe have found that the number of farm birds in France has crashed by a third in just 15 years, with some species being almost eradicated.

Do keep in mind attending the presentations during this event is not free of charge — early bird tickets are still available — and the number of available tickets is limited.

According to natural selection the members of the bird species with the smallest useless wing would be the most adaptable and most likely to survive in the largest numbers.

In other words, the individuals of each species of migratory bird are slowly diminishing in numbeIn other words, the individuals of each species of migratory bird are slowly diminishing in numbein number.

I for one am very happy that since we quit the DDT, the eagle has come back in such strong numbers that there is no risk in the taking of a few birds.

Research from the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Centre has demonstrated that the number of bird species found in shade coffee plantations is almost twice that found in sun grown coffee (Smithsonian 19Bird Centre has demonstrated that the number of bird species found in shade coffee plantations is almost twice that found in sun grown coffee (Smithsonian 19bird species found in shade coffee plantations is almost twice that found in sun grown coffee (Smithsonian 1994).

The breeding populations of a number of bird species in Western European farmland have declined in the past decades.

A study by Rhône - Poulenc (1997) has shown a steady annual increase in the number of bird territories on land converted to organic production and a higher overall number of territories on the organically managed land.

The biggest difference between free range farms is the number of birds kept in a certain space.

On about the fourth attempt to move in close, I crossed a small clearing and was about to swing around a bush when over it I saw a number of birds wing into the air with loud chirping.

Blessed with idyllic conditions on Friday evening, many birding teams were fortunate in finding a number of interesting species before sunset.

The land was subsequently renamed Bird Haven because of the large number and variety of birds that sheltered in the area.

The Academy has a large number of Bailey's photographs in their Archives taken on his trips all over the United States and Canada with the intention of recording a variety of species of birds in their natural habitat.

And, in an effort to offer participants an even wider choice in subject matter, the number of submission categories has grown to seven: People in Nature, Birds, Mammals, Other Animals, Plants and Fungi, Landscapes, and new this year, Travel.

The volunteer survey invites participants to list the bird species and greatest number of each seen at one time at their feeders and in their yards during that Saturday and Sunday.

For 2014, in an effort to offer participants an even wider choice in subject matter, the number of submission categories has grown to six: Mammals will now be a stand - alone category, in addition to People in Nature, Birds, Other Animals, Plants and Fungi, and Landscapes.

Climate change is affecting birds in a number of ways.

A limited number of mute swans would be allowed to stay in upstate under the DEC's latest management plan for the species, released last week after years of controversy over the huge white birds.

The early - bird posting of Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy's campaign - finance report shows the Cuomo administration's number two has used his fund to pay for what is described in the filing as «housing,» with payments going to a company owned by a major Republican contributor.

«With a recent government funded study showing low compliance with existing regulations in England on lead shot use, it's not surprising unacceptable numbers of wildfowl are still dying avoidable deaths from lead poisoning,» the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds» director of conservation Martin Harper said.

Dr Conor O'Gorman, BASC's policy development manager, said: «The UK section of the report is short on facts, estimating the number of birds illegally killed in the UK as anywhere from 300 to 14,500.

That song appears to keep the chicks from growing too large after they hatch if the weather is toasty — and it even affects the number of baby birds in the next generation, though researchers aren't sure exactly why.

Citizen scientists then tallied the number of birds they could see in the photos.

The study results were published online in a paper titled «Birds have primate - like numbers of neurons in the forebrain» in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences early edition on the week of June 13.

«In designing brains, nature has two parameters it can play with: the size and number of neurons and the distribution of neurons across different brain centers,» said Herculano - Houzel, «and in birds we find that nature has used both of them.&raquIn designing brains, nature has two parameters it can play with: the size and number of neurons and the distribution of neurons across different brain centers,» said Herculano - Houzel, «and in birds we find that nature has used both of them.&raquin birds we find that nature has used both of them.»

Among the questions that this study raises are whether the surprisingly large number of neurons in bird brains comes at a correspondingly large energetic cost, and whether the small neurons in bird brains are a response to selection for small body size due to flight, or possibly the ancestral way of adding neurons to the brain — from which mammals, not birds, may have diverged.

That is one of the surprising results of the first study to systematically measure the number of neurons in the brains of more than two dozen species of birds ranging in size from the tiny zebra finch to the six - foot - tall emu, which found that they consistently have more neurons packed into their small brains than are stuffed into mammalian or even primate brains of the same mass.

Hurricane Katrina destroyed the habitat of breeding colonies in Louisiana's Pearl River Basin, for instance, but bird numbers held steady, researchers noted in the journal Forest Ecology and Management.

Story number 3: Migratory birds appear to be the major cause of new cases in new regions of avian flu.

Researchers in Queensland, Australia, assessed the condition of fragmented eucalyptus forests at 10 sites using conventional measures — including the size of forest patches, vegetation characteristics and the number of bird species detected — and sound recordings.

At the time of posting 442 oiled birds had been captured and roughly a dozen brown pelicans had been released while a large number remained in holding pens.

Volunteers for the aptly named AMBLE regularly walked beaches in Door County in Wisconsin, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, recording the number of sick and dead birds of different species.

«We were staggered by the number of birds moving through this trade,» says Martin Gilbert, a veterinarian at the Wildlife Conservation Society who recently co-authored a study in Biological Conservation on merit releases.

The researchers suggest that the preferred direction of the number line could originate in brain asymmetries that are common to birds and humans.

After two years, as expected, data showed that the number of birds and other species in each patch was diminishing.

H7N9 is a strain of flu virus that normally infects birds but has spread to at least 779 humans in a number of outbreaks related to poultry markets.

But no one had seen large numbers of them in action until 2007, when Benoit - Bird — an Oregon State University oceanographer — found a way to use sonar to probe the 3,000 - foot depths of the squid's stomping grounds in the Sea of Cortez.

An even bigger problem, he says, is that competitive displays by male birds seeking to mate with females are «only observed in a small number of species around the world.»

Based on a peatland model developed at the University of York and latest climate change predictions, the researchers warn that by 2051 - 80 the dunlin could see a 50 % decline in numbers, with the golden plover down 30 % and the red grouse down by 15 %, all driven by declining abundance of the birds» crane fly prey.

Last century, the number of wild whooping cranes (Grus americana), the largest bird in the US, plummeted to less than 20.

Some of these regions, such as the southern Andes and certain isolated mountain ranges in the north, are also home to high numbers of endemic and threatened bird species, she finds.

The team found bird feathers in a substantial number of their 14,000 samples, as much as 70 % during peak autumn migration.