Sentences with phrase «of migratory bird»

Amherst, well known for its abundance of migratory bird and bat life, is also a Canadian recognized historic centre, a centre for bird tourism, and boasts a windswept coastline with more shoreline than all of the 1,000 Islands combined.

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.

«In fact, having conducted more than 30 years of migratory bird research along Lake Erie, we believe the six - turbine Icebreaker project would pose a significant threat to wildlife — not to mention substantially increased impacts that would be triggered by the planned expansion of the project to more than 1,000 turbines.»

The announcement came after the Center for Biological Diversity issued a notice of intent to sue the Service and affiliated agencies in 2010 for their failure to remediate the hazardous waste hurting the birds, in violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, Endangered Species Act and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.

Finally, there's one last critical point that Robert Bryce conveniently ignores: Climate change threatens hundreds of migratory bird species, which are already stressed by habitat loss, invasive species and other environmental threats.

This case represents the first ever criminal enforcement of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act for unpermitted avian takings at wind projects.

In Ontario the government has failed to protect migratory birds by failing to stipulate that wind turbines must not be placed in the vicinity of migratory bird stopovers, diurnal and seasonal migration routes and important bird areas

The organization wrote last year, «The announcement came after the Center for Biological Diversity issued a notice of intent to sue the Service and affiliated agencies in 2010 for their failure to remediate the hazardous waste hurting the birds, in violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, Endangered Species Act and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.

[FN79] It is quite obvious that cats can be lethal to birds, and if the death of a migratory bird can be traced to a cat, or a cat colony, which can be further traced to an individual or organization, there may be strict liability for that person under the MBTA.

[FN78] In other words, the government must prove there was a natural and continuous sequence of events, without any intervening causes, which produced the death of a migratory bird, without which the death could not have happened, and the death of a bird must be an event which might have reasonably been foreseen.

«In, Feral Cat Colonies in Florida: The Fur and Feathers Are Flying, author Pamela Jo Hatley determined that releasing cats into the wild and supporting feral cat colonies is a violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Endangered Species Act, as well as laws prohibiting animal abandonment.»

«Let's get into some of the other reasons why we need some of this... The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — and because it was made into a cat issue, I'm using cats — cites that cats and other introduced predators are responsible for much of the migratory bird loss.

``... releasing cats into the wild and supporting feral cat colonies is a violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Endangered Species Act, as well as laws prohibiting animal abandonment.»

«It is quite obvious that cats can be lethal to birds,» writes Hatley, «and if the death of a migratory bird can be traced to a cat, or a cat colony, which can be further traced to an individual or organization, there may be strict liability for that person under the MBTA.»

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

Central America lies on the route of many species of migratory birds.

Stolzberg notes that this blanket war against coyotes has resulted in an explosion of ground predators, such as raccoons and skunks, which are responsible for attacking the nests of migratory birds.

Pesticides kill tens of thousands of migratory birds on their wintering grounds.

The reward: Swallow Cliff's 800 - acre preserve offers a wealth of natural beauty, including majestic oaks, glittering streams, wetlands and flocks of migratory birds.

April 25: The long voyage of some migratory birds ends in Chicago.

Arruza: A new exhibit at the Peggy Notebeart Nature Museum in Chicago showcases many of the migratory birds that traverse the Chicago area.

Photographs by Art Fox Capture Ill - Fated Flights of Migratory Birds - Chicago Tonight - March 15, 2016 A new photography exhibit at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum showcases some of the exotic and beautiful birds that meet a sad fate in Chicago.

The long voyage of some migratory birds ends in Chicago.

Exhibit Shines Light On Plight Of Migratory Birds - CBS Chicago - March 3, 2016 An exhibit aimed at bringing public awareness to the number of migrating birds that fall prey to skyscrapers and other buildings has opened at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.

Arruza: An exhibit at the Peggy Notebeart Nature Museum in Chicago showcases many of the migratory birds that traverse the Chicago area.

In partnership with the City of Boston and leading building owners and managers, Mass Audubon is working to turn off Boston's architectural and window lighting at night, saving energy, money, and the lives of migratory birds that can become fatally disoriented by artificial lights.

Despite snow blanketing the North Country in March, spring is near and many of us here in New York are preparing for the return of migratory birds... more

Despite snow blanketing the North Country in March, spring is near and many of us here in New York are preparing for the return of migratory birds...

To expand the scientific knowledge base, a team of UC Santa Barbara scientists set out to estimate the vulnerability and extinction risk of migratory birds, mammals and fishes from different regions and ecosystems around the world.

«The radical - pair mechanism of magnetoreception is still just a hypothesis, and arguably the best evidence we have for it so far is the effect of time - dependent radiofrequency magnetic fields on the ability of migratory birds to detect the direction of the Earth's magnetic field,» says senior author Peter Hore, an Oxford biophysical chemist specializing in magnetic influences on chemical reactions.

And the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a few years ago in its fourth assessment in 2007, said to the Europeans — but it could have been to the Americans for that matter in a different context — Europeans if you care for your songbirds, as Europeans really do, look to Africa and how African habitats are doing: 84 percent of the migratory birds in the world are vulnerable to climate change.

The hypothesis of transport in the guts of migratory birds has repeatedly been pooh - poohed by ecologists.

The domestic duck — determined to be the main carrier of the disease — is a common inhabitant of Southeast Asia's rice paddies, and the movement of migratory birds — a secondary carrier — could be predicted based on temperatures.

The brains of migratory birds tend to be smaller than those of similar - sized species that do not migrate.

Scientists aren't sure how such compass directions appear in the eyes of migratory birds, but team member Dominik Heyers has a guess.

Beginning in early spring, FWS personnel regulate water flows throughout the refuge to safeguard habitat for the hundreds of thousands of migratory birds that use the 76,000 - hectare refuge as a key stopover and nesting ground.

The unusual weather encouraged the early emergence of Eastern tent caterpillars before the arrival of the migratory birds that normally eat them.

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.

Walk or row up to the otherworldly tufa towers — formed underwater by the mixing of calcium - rich freshwater springs with dissolved carbonates in the lake — or watch thousands of migratory birds feast on flies and brine shrimp.

The Refuge is recognized internationally as an important feeding, resting and breeding ground for millions of migratory birds on the Pacific and Central Flyways.

Researchers have already blamed die - offs of migratory birds and sea lions on The Blob; concerns are now that salmon harvests this summer will be depressed as a result of the warm water.

«Millions of migratory birds rely on the flooded agricultural fields each year.

Keeping track of migratory birds that travel more than 1,000 miles in search of warmer climes is a monumental task.

«Tiny plants ride on the coattails of migratory birds: Migrant birds may be virtual dispersal highways for plants.»

First reported in 1937 in Uganda, West Nile virus travels throughout Africa, Eurasia, and the Middle East on various species of migratory birds.

These new techniques are also helping to explain the biology that underpins the uncanny navigational abilities of migratory birds.

This behaviour is reminiscent of migratory birds such as white storks or swallows.

Winger found many cases of migratory birds shifting to a settled existence.

Nearly half of all migratory birds that nest in Britain are nesting earlier.

Cryptochromes are found in the retina of migratory birds and seem to be activated when birds are navigating using the magnetic field.