Sentences with phrase «numbers of birds from»

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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.

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).

«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.

Stringer was getting immediate Monday help from that very establishment, with City Council Speaker Christine Quinn dismissing Spitzer and Weiner as a pair — demonstrating the two - birds - with - one - stone strategy a number of Democrats are planning to use.

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.

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.

Over the last two decades, huge numbers of fossils have been collected from the western Liaoning Province and adjacent parts of northeastern China, including exceptionally preserved feathered dinosaurs, early birds, and mammals.

For this study, waterbird data were drawn from the Bureau of Land Management and the East Cascades Audubon Society surveys, which used the time and efforts of dozens of community scientists to document changing bird numbers at Lake Abert.

Self - assembly enables nature to build complex forms, from multicellular organisms to complex animal structures such as flocks of birds, through the interaction of vast numbers of limited and unreliable individuals.

For greater accuracy, the experts limited their study to those birds that had travelled distances greater than 50 km from the place where they had been banded — a distance that exceeds the maximum number of kilometres that these birds tend to travel in a single day (10 - 40 km).

The number of mammal and bird species varies from place to place, but these groups of vertebrates still span much of the world.

Heritage birds differ from broad - breasted whites in a number of ways: They are lighter in weight, leaner, with less muscling, and dark or colored feathers.

With access to museum ornithological collections from areas of South America that Darwin had not visited, Gould corrected a number of taxonomic errors Darwin had made (such as labeling two finch species a «Wren» and an «Icterus») and pointed out to him that although the land birds in the Galpagos were endemic to the islands, they were notably South American in character.

Astroviruses from a number of species, including human, bovine, bird, cow and dog, were detected in monkeys, This «challenges the paradigm that AstV (astrovirus) infection is species - specific,» the authors wrote.

So researchers turned to two different estimation methods — one whereby total mortalities were estimated from the actual number of dead birds recovered, and another in which information on the geographic extent of the oil slick and seabird densities were used to estimate potential mortalities.

Denizens of bottomlands and old forests from the Carolinas to east Texas, the birds dwindled in number as their habitat was logged from the late 1800s through the 1930s.

But new research shows the cuddly bird and the powerful feline share an unfortunate fate: Though their numbers have stabilized or are even rising, some populations are suffering from profound genetic isolation or loss of genetic diversity — enough in some cases to leave them deeply vulnerable to new diseases and other threats.

Although specimens of fishes, marine reptiles, non-avian dinosaurs, birds, and mammals of this age have all been recovered from this now - frozen continent, most fossils, especially those of land - living species, are fragmentary and poorly informative, and a number of major vertebrate groups that likely once lived in Antarctica (e.g., amphibians, crocodilians) have yet to be discovered at all.

The results of our study on the conservation of the number of digits provides an important argument in the current controversy on the descent of birds from dinosaurs between developmental biologists and paleontologists.

Over the past few years, we've seen many strong non-fiction films that are either one or the other: The you - are - there doc Restrepo and its sequel, Korengal, are like visual journalism, embedded in a disputed valley in Afghanistan; and a number of other non-fiction films, from These Birds Walk to 12 O» Clock Boys, have an ecstatic beauty that evoke the term «Malick-esque.»

There is a disproportionate number of films about women in the lineup, which seems to indicate that the film that will benefit most from that would be Lady Bird.

In 1978, when the movie opens, Madeline is starring in a stage musical based on Sweet Bird of Youth, and it's typical of the movie's demeaning approach to women that it cuts from a shot of her face on the cover of a playbill lying in a mud puddle to a closeup of her onstage in an extended production number, «Me» («I see me, I like what I see»), that includes a chorus line of hotel bellboys.

Ten years after moving from Israel to the United States and starting her career with modeling work and acting classes, her latest role as Jenna in Greta Gerwig's celebrated new film Lady Bird has put her on the map, and, with a number of upcoming movies, the young actress is one to watch.

2017 brought a number of great films from female directors, and three of them persisted in the cultural conversation as having awards - season potential: Patty Jenkins for Wonder Woman, Dee Rees for Mudbound, and Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird.

Passing through the hands of a number of different owners over the years, Aston Martin has regularly suffered fiscal implosions — only to rise again from its ashes like that mythic bird.

Seriously, I don't think you guys understand the number of emails I get every single day from BlackBerry users wondering where they can download Angry Birds for their BlackBerry.

When I asked about the current number of apps in BlackBerry App World, I couldn't squeeze a figure out of the RIM reps — though they did remind me of new releases like the venerable Angry Birds and more upcoming titles from EA.

Protein is also an important component of a bird's diet, and it can come from a number of sources, including grains, nuts and seeds, as well as vegetables — especially cooked beans.

A store with little space should stay away from large parrots like cockatoos, macaws and Amazons, as the bird has to be housed in a cage of the right size, and a number of large cages in different styles and colors must be offered on the sales floor so customers feel they have options.

In order to protect the exotic birds that live on the Ogasawara Islands, a clutch of tropical islands 620 miles south of Tokyo, from being predated by an overwhelming number of feral cats, the Japanese government has ordered the capture and rehabilitation of the cats.

KISSIMMEE - A rising number of pet - maltreatment cases in Osceola County has kept Animal Control officers busy in the past week, including the confiscation of 21 dogs, seven cats and 13 exotic birds from two homes.

As the UK's Royal Society for the Protection of Birds notes, in refreshingly straightforward language: «Despite the large numbers of birds killed, there is no scientific evidence that predation by cats in gardens is having any impact on bird populations UK - wide... It is likely that most of the birds killed by cats would have died anyway from other causes before the next breeding season, so cats are unlikely to have a major impact on populations.&rBirds notes, in refreshingly straightforward language: «Despite the large numbers of birds killed, there is no scientific evidence that predation by cats in gardens is having any impact on bird populations UK - wide... It is likely that most of the birds killed by cats would have died anyway from other causes before the next breeding season, so cats are unlikely to have a major impact on populations.&rbirds killed, there is no scientific evidence that predation by cats in gardens is having any impact on bird populations UK - wide... It is likely that most of the birds killed by cats would have died anyway from other causes before the next breeding season, so cats are unlikely to have a major impact on populations.&rbirds killed by cats would have died anyway from other causes before the next breeding season, so cats are unlikely to have a major impact on populations.»

The number of orphan birds brought to the center rises from spring to midsummer, often by well - meaning people who believe the bird is injured or abandoned.

Unlike many other animal hospitals in the area, our Homer Glen animal hospital is proud to see a number of pets, ranging from your typical dogs and cats to even exotic animals, such as birds, reptiles, and small mammals.

Biologists also have used the studies from Marra, Temple, and a number of others to estimate the total U.S. death toll for birds due to cat predation as more than a billion per year.

The conservationists argue that scientific studies show that cats kill huge numbers of birds, and that therefore cats must be removed from the environment to protect birds.

«This was clearly not realistic, as the estimated maximum numbers of birds killed typically exceeded breeding density and productivity combined, such that the prey populations studied would probably have gone extinct rapidly at a local level or acted as a major sink for birds immigrating from neighbouring areas.»

The method employed in «Landowners and Cat Predation» — asking owners of cats to recall the number and species of birds over the previous six - month period — invites overestimation from the very outset.

The number of pet birds in the U.S. totally crash landed in this most recent survey, falling about 26 percent from five years ago to 8.3 million.

Bird warns retailers to beware of what she calls «dodge - ball» ingredient listings — listings that are ambiguous, such as «mild coconut oil base,» which could be anything as most detergents are derived initially from coconut oil but go through a number of chemical processes to become sodium lauryl sulfate, sodium laureth sulfate, or other detergents.

An eight year old garden that was started from scratch by the couple, the main feature is an ornamental dam which is also home to a number of ducks and birds.

Natures Valley is also located less than 30 minutes drive from some of the top activities in The Garden Route, Bungy Jumping, Monkeyland, Birds of Eden, Tenikwa Wildcats, Elephant Sanctuary, and a number of whale and dolphin watching options.

Located two kilometres from Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve, Eden at Fogg Dam is internationally recognised as a premier bird watching location, close to a number of tourist attractions and situated en route to both the Adelaide and Mary River wetlands.

The second half of the day is for exploring Panaji or Panjim - the state's capital city, it has wide roads that offer a nice view of the River Mandovi and leads to a number of attractions like river cruises and Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Church, Miramar beach - popular beach of Panjim, it is ideal for leisure walks and bird watching in winters and Dona Paula - a popular tourist attraction, Dauna Paula beach offers water sports and has a bridge - like structure from where one can click memorable photographs.

Especially the late August and September trips as this is when we large numbers of Steller sea lions usually return to the area from their remote breeding rookeries, high numbers of sea birds congregate in the area, and humpback whales become more surface active as they feed on small schooling fish.

There are various sceneries and especially the mountains of the Flinders Ranges as the colours change from dawn to dusk, with abundant wildlife, especially the large numbers of different species of kangaroos and native birds.

Six endemic species Saint Lucia has six endemic species, one of which is the islands national bird, the Saint Lucia Parrot (Amazona Veriscolor), a species that recovered from dangerously low population numbers in the early 1980s.