Sentences with phrase «of spring migration»

The author accuses Stantec of choosing to do a survey only of spring migration for the birds while birds are actually at greater risk in the fall because they are moving more slowly (there is not the push to build a nest and raise this year's offspring), and because there are young birds making the trip for the first time.

As they write in their 2015 publication in the journal Ambio over this longer timeframe of 140 years they measure a change in behaviour of spring migration that they attribute to structural climate change.

We argue that this may reflect a climate - driven evolutionary change in the timing of spring migration.»

This study showed that in fact many European migratory birds do indeed advance the timing of their spring migration in response to climate change [so another study in favour of climate (temperature) over circadian rhythm for migration timing] and that it may actually be the long - distance migratory birds that show better adaption:

One of the most stirring spectacles of spring migration is the American Golden - Plover's northward migration through the Midwest, en route to breeding grounds along the Arctic Ocean's broad coastal plain.

«Our study clearly showed that European migratory bird species with declining breeding populations in Europe in the last decades (1990 — 2000) responded the least to recent climate change as reflected by the temporal trend in spring migration phenology, or even delayed their timing of spring migration, whereas species with stable or increasing populations advanced migration.»

Early on the morning of May 31st, near the end of the spring migration, I met up with Liz Johnson and Felicity Arengo from the American Museum of Natural History.

Recording the unique calls of birds on nighttime legs of the spring migration will let researchers know where proposed wind power turbines should be placed.

Many thanks go to all who participated in this important fund raising event and to the hundreds of birders who enjoyed the pleasure of spring migration on behalf of Mass Audubon.

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In early spring he took off by plane in advance of their migration and intercepted them along the Platte River in Nebraska.

Thousands of grounded migrants that arrived mid-week preceding Bird - a-thon were pinned down by the inclement weather, thus giving more than 600 stalwart Bird - a-thoners an opportunity to appreciate spring migration at its best.

Join us for a night of costumed characters and lantern - lit trails as we celebrate the annual spring migration of salamanders and tree frogs back to the vernal pools where they were born.

Mass Audubon's Challenge was based on five years of project review, including three years of ornithological fieldwork; our assessment and comments on Cape Wind's first federal Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) and literature review; talks with ornithologists, scientists, and engineers; and a visit to Denmark's offshore wind farms during the 2005 spring bird migration.

Shedd Aquarium's conservation research team launched a citizen science project this spring in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin - Madison Center for Limnology and the Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve aimed at documenting long - term shifts in the timing of fish migrations into Great Lakes streams.

LINCOLN — Each March, as spring approaches and birds begin their annual migration to New England breeding and nesting grounds, hundreds of people gather in their own seasonal rite, at the Mass Audubon Birders Meeting.

Other volunteers are taking part in a Shedd Aquarium research project to document migration of native White Sucker fish that use the ravines each spring.

And for five years when I was there opening the mist nets every spring migration we captured the same wood thrush in the same net in the same lower position of the net.

Seasonality of bird migration is shifting in response to climate change and, as a result, birds are arriving at their northern breeding grounds earlier in the spring.

By analyzing some 40,000 images of the tundra landscape, Ken D. Tape of the University of Alaska and David D. Gustine of the US Geological Survey documented the northern spring migrations of both species.

In this episode, Liz Johnson and Felicity Arengo from the American Museum of Natural History take Scientific American podcast host Steve Mirsky for a walk in the park — Central Park — to talk about the spring bird migration and the role that Central Park and other green spaces plays in the lives of birds and other animals.

Johnson: Yeah, in the fall, it's a little more diffuse, wouldn't you say, that it's the spring migration in Central Park is much more of a hot spot.

The researchers found that due to warm spring temperatures on Kodiak, the berries were developing fruit weeks earlier, at the same time as the peak of the salmon migration; 2014 was one of the warmest years on the island since record - keeping began 60 years ago.

«Furthermore we speculate that, during wetter periods, springs may have formed ways of «bridging» longitudinal dispersal of hominins between larger freshwater bodies or rivers providing a critical resource during hominin migration within and out of Africa,» Professor Ashley said.

After spending a relatively leisurely winter and early spring luxuriating in warm tropical climates, they migrate north for a brief but highly eventful summer in North America, during which they must complete three energetically demanding and time - consuming tasks: (1) they must build nests, lay eggs, and provide for their offspring until the young reach independence, (2) they must completely replace all the feathers in their plumage as part of the annual molt, and (3) they must prepare for the fall southward migration by eating prodigiously and storing the body fat that will fuel their long - distance flights.

(The nation's first amphibian tunnel was built in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1987 to aid the spring migration of the spotted salamander.)

The work used upward - facing radar systems and recorded insects flying between 150 meters and 1200 meters high, documenting thousands of mass migrations northward in spring and southward in fall, suggesting the insects know when and in what direction to migrate and pick favorable winds to do so.

Often times, you can just see 50 to 70 species here in a morning, maybe more, you know, during the height of migration and I've been here where there's been thousands of white - throated sparrows, for example, just passing through the tree tops on a spring morning, you know, really important.

A new study uses ancient DNA to suggest that a massive migration of herders from the east shaped the genomes of most living Europeans — and that these immigrants may have been the source of Proto - Indo - European (PIE), the mysterious ancestral tongue from which the more than 400 Indo - European languages sprang.

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Journey North traces the migration of butterflies and other species as they head north each spring.

We've driven every kind of van on the market during our annual spring - break migration to Florida.

Set against the Platte River's massive spring migrations — one of the greatest spectacles in nature — The Echo Maker is a gripping mystery that explores the improvised human self and the even more precarious brain that splits us from and joins us to the rest of creation.

Unable to prevent an estimated $ 5 million to $ 10 million worth of bird damage each fall to a sunflower crop which fetches between $ 330 million and $ 500 million per year, Wildlife Services staff theorized in 1994 that they might accomplish more by poisoning the birds as they migrate north each spring, so that fewer would join the fall migrations southward.

For the Red Knot, the Delaware Bay on the East Coast is a major staging ground during spring migration; it is estimated that over 90 % of one subspecies can be present in a single day.

There is an operational lighthouse at Warden Head on the southern end of the harbour.with uninterrupted views of the coast offering an ideal location for viewing dolphins and the southern right and humpback whales during their winter and spring migration periods.

This is also one of the coast's best locations to watch the winter and spring migrations of Gray Whales.

Spring migrations also offer sightings of many varieties of shorebirds, who make surprise appearances on the beaches.

Many varieties of shorebirds are spotted on beaches and along the Ecola Creek estuary during spring and fall migrations.

Approximately 18,000 Gray Whales can be observed each spring and winter making one of the natural world's most amazing migrations.

In the Spring, the waters around Ucluelet see as many as 20,000 grey whales in one of the greatest annual migration on the planet.

Spring sees the annual migration of the Humpback and Souther Right Whales.

The Gulf Stream current draws a massive migration of pelagic fish every spring and summer.

Depoe Bay, a community of about 1,500 with a tiny, keyhole harbor that it claims is the world's smallest, is a center for whale watching during the winter and spring gray whale migrations.

Spring bursts with gardens filled with over a thousand tulips, lilies and daffodils, rhododendrons and azaleas, the annual whale migration north, the birth of sea lion pups offshore, gourmet breakfast, fresh abalone in the afternoon, and nights in the hot tub watching brilliant sunsets.

View the gray whale migration during the winter and spring months and the giants of the sea, the blue and finback whales during the summer and fall months.

In the winter and spring you'll be able catch magnificent Gray Whales going through their annual migration to breed in the lagoons of Baja California.

These dolphins, birds, and sea lions are also a common and frequent sight during the winter and spring months, but the main attraction during these months is the annual gray whale migration to the lagoons of Mexico's Baja California.

Spring / Break: BKLYN IMMERSIVE presents an art fair in the form of a curated exhibition consisting of curated site - specific installations and immersive works inspired by themes of displacement and migration.

Repeat visitors are rewarded with new experiences and perspectives, from the evolving work and ever - changing roster of artists, to the explosion of wildflowers in the spring and the raptor migration in the fall.

Spring / Break Art Show, March 6 — 12 Curated presentations on the theme of migration and assimilation — this year in an office building.