Sentences with phrase «of migrating birds»

The subtle portrayals of migrating birds in Jochen Lempert's photographs reveal the artist's original training as an animal biologist, as he documents these nomadic animals in their temporary habitats of city streets and concrete architecture.

But for millions of migrating birds, nighttime is the only time to travel — they need the dark night sky to navigate thousands of miles home for the summer.

You can also explore the Fucecchio Marshes, Italy's largest inland wetlands, which attract huge numbers of migrating birds.

«Novel technology reveals aerodynamics of migrating birds flying in a V - formation.»

Francis R. Dickinson canoeing to bird blind for taking images of migrating birds at the Paul Rainey Bird Sanctuary in Louisiana, ca. 1932.

He has campaigned on numerous Animal Welfare causes such as against puppy smuggling [8] and has supported the Dogs Trust UK as well as BirdLife Malta in its campaign against the hunting of migrating birds.

These flowers are essential to the health of migrating birds and raptors.

IT IS an annual ritual, as reliable as the spawning of frogs or the return of migrating birds.

So ornithologist Thomas Alerstam of Lund University in Sweden and colleagues used the radar on a Canadian icebreaker in the Northwest Passage to measure the direction of migrating birds flying past.

A tourist boycott might curtail this senseless slaughter of migrating birds.

Wildlife experts worried that without regular mowing and management, the reed beds, meadows, and marshes supporting such a rich collection of migrating birds would soon give way to bushes and willows.

Much of the sea has been labeled a wildlife habitat and it is a safe haven for hundreds of migrating bird species.

Just as William Jones used to forecast the weather by studying the sky or the formations of migrating birds, so the women said they'd been able to forecast the men's sudden departure.

The course's 18 holes are challenging and rewarding, offering tricky hole designs, old - growth palm trees, and native wildlife such as mountain gazelles, humpback dolphins, green and hawksbill turtles, and a rainbow of migrating birds.

Lake Psalidi, on the eastern corner of the island, is a haven for wildlife including masses of migrating birds.

The Yorkey's Knob property has an 18 acre Billabong in the middle of the property which is home to a huge array of migrating birds and animals such as geese, peacocks, ducks and even a resident crocodile or two so make sure you bring your camera along to take some pictures.

A number of works have been developed specifically for this exhibition such as Consider the Birds: On Intimacy, shot during the ringing of migrating birds in Falsterbo, Sweden, this past spring.

Elsewhere, drawing from a lighter poetic imagery, Barbara Visser and Gintaras Didžiapetris use a flock of migrating birds as a natural metaphor, while Thomas Bakker screens footage of a wandering air balloon and Hella Jongerius contributes an hour - by - hour color changing spectrum.

Exploratory drilling will occur just north of the western edge of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in the Beaufort Sea, home to bowhead and beluga whales, seals, walruses, polar bears, and a wide variety of migrating birds.

We live in the path of thousands of migrating birds that will be killed by the blades of the turbines.

These clues include the earlier spring arrivals of migrating birds, earlier blooming of wildflowers and Washington DC's cherry trees, melting glaciers and icecaps, micro-fossils from cores of mud from the ocean floor, and bubbles of ancient air retrieved from cores of glacial ice.

The species feeds primarily on migratory birds that use the island as a rest - stop, so of course potential changes from sea level rise or any changes in the habits of migrating birds could also spell disaster for the species.

The ponds of leftover toxic waste threaten millions of migrating birds, and studies have identified health problems in the nearby indigenous communities linked to pollution.