Sentences with phrase «of number of birds»

There was, of course, witch - hunt pioneer Stan Temple's op - ed in the Sun - Sentinel, referring to the paper as «a new study... provid [ing] a science - based estimate of the number of birds and mammals killed by cats nationwide.»

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

Not exact matches

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.

However, when you consider that the Deep Horizon spill cost 42 Billion US to clean up and they only recovered 3 % of the oil while 250 million of birds, thousands of mammals, unknown millions of fish, and countless numbers of mammals, whales, turtles shellfish, and other marine life were killed.

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.

This is a good year to throw precedent out the window, so I don't imagine that Three Billboards» lack of a Best Director nomination hurts it any more than the relatively low number of nominations for Get Out or Lady Bird hurt them, or Dunkirk's lack of acting or writing nominations hurts it.

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 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.

This should reduce the number of people I hear saying that Bird - Friendly coffee is too hard to find.

Reasons for the higher number and species diversity of birds and bird territories on organic farms include better breeding habitats and better food conditions.

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

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).

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.

For the table we have translated this to an approximate number of birds per sqm, based on an average slaughter weight of 5 kg for adult females and 17 kg for adult males.

When I take a bite, it spills a pile of duck slicked with sugary mole, unloading so much confit that I worry about the number of birds compelled to sacrifice their legs.

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.

With the exception of the guests of the island's small number of hotels, the population seems largely to consist of the graceful Fregata magnificens, or frigate bird.

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

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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.

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.

«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.

However, the mobile app directs users to a number of pertinent destinations, including Laurel Lake Vineyards, Catapano Dairy Farm, South Jamesport Beach and Browder's Birds.

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.

Monies have been approved and so we will consequently work on the percentage because the numbers have to be audited it has to go through a number of things to ensure that a farm was affected with a number of birds..

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.»

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.

«And don't forget we lost millions of birds as West Nile marched across the United States, and we lost untold numbers of horses and other animals, too.»

All of which means that story number 3 about migratory birds being the major cause of the spread of avian flu is TOTALL... Y BOGUS.

The team compared the body structure of a number of early birds and found that some toothed species were more adapted for flight.

But since the 1960s, a growing number of the birds have started migrating to the UK.

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