Sentences with phrase «of warblers»

Once being the leader of the Warblers on the small screen, the multi-talented actor also gets to utilize his pipes as a tribute impersonator of the Backstreet Boys.

Eggs of warblers and weavers reveal that those from species whose nests have been infiltrated by cuckoo finches have extremely complicated markings compared with those from species whose nests have not been invaded.

But sustaining a population of the birds on a farm is a challenge; because of borers» small size and seasonal population changes, they make up only about 10 % of warblers» diets.

Johnson: One of the really nice things about Central Park is even though you do get warbler neck from veering up for some reason, allow the birds come down low so that you can see a whole array of warblers without even getting warbler neck, because they all stay low down in some of these lower shrubs, and the other fun thing is that the birds who do nest here are pretty tolerant of people.

The agenda will include a range of warblers - centric topics, including climate change impacts; species conservation strategies; genetics and hybridization; and warbler songs and other vocalizations.

«With more than 30 species of warblers annually occurring in Massachusetts, these colorful avian sprites are consistently among the favorites among bird watchers everywhere,» Petersen said.

The 2017 Meeting will feature presentations on a variety of aspects of warbler natural history, from ecology and taxonomy to song and conservation.

A better understanding of the warbler's migratory preferences may help the scientists keep its numbers from declining.

Graves used playbacks of warbler songs to detect these reclusive birds during field surveys throughout the southeastern U.S. Future research will focus on the characteristics of pine stands and soils that promote the colonization of pine plantations by the Swainson's warbler.

I'm infatuated with the colors of the Warbler Post Peasant Blouse ($ 128).

It's a big old Buick of a warbler that lets out a stream of thuggish sounds that are hilarious.

Not exact matches

I remember being on a hike when one of my guides said, «Now up in that tree there's a cerulean warbler.»

From warblers to owls, 15 poems of birds designed to be read aloud by 2.

Examples of North American breeding birds that winter in El Salvador, and which studies have determined return to the same places each winter, include Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris, photo right), Wilson's Warbler (Wilsonia pusilla), Tennessee Warbler (Vermivora peregrina), and Ovenbird (Seirurus auracapillus).

Cerulean Warbler Coffee is being marketed as part of the Save the Cerulean Warbler campaign.

They purchased all of Gaia's current crop, and it will appear in the Wood Thrush variety, and Selva Negra's coffee will be in the Chestnut - sided Warbler variety.

I read a report on Cerulean Warbler from Venezuela, where it is said that the old shade trees are being cleaned from Bromeliads and other epiphytes, as it increases moisture and risk of mold.

While wintering in coffee farms, Black - throated Blue Warblers consume primarily small insects, many of which are coffee pests.

A couple of others are spotted towhees and warblers, and wind.

A coffee farm that is part of the ProAves Cerulean Warbler Reserve in Santander, Colombia was recently certified by Rainforest Alliance (under the cooperative Asociación de Cafés Sostenibles de Santander).

Just to avoid confusion, the ABC / Thanksgiving Cerulean Warbler coffee is from a different part of Colombia, not from farms adjacent to or near the Reserve.

As part of the Save the Cerulean Warbler effort, ABC has also marketed a Cerulean Warbler Coffee, roasted and distributed by Thanksgiving Coffee Company, which we have reviewed here.

The authors, naturally, write most of species found only in the Southwest, like the quaint little red - faced warbler.

Originally hailing from Delaware, Jeff attended graduate school at UMass Amherst, where he investigated the winter habitat of the migratory Golden - winged Warbler as well as the role of alternative coffee farming in the conservation of forest bird species in Costa Rica.

Add to this the opportunity to observe many of the more common signature species of these magnificent forests — Pacific - slope Flycatcher, Steller's Jay, Chestnut - backed Chickadee, Pacific Wren, and Townsend's Warbler — only enhanced their appreciation of this spectacular ecosystem.

The researchers also found that a substantial amount of genetic variation among individual warblers is associated with the different precipitation levels of their respective environments.

«Yellow warblers are an ideal species for this because they are common across most of the U.S. and Canada during the summer, so different birds must inhabit very different climates,» explained Bay.

Some subpopulations of yellow warblers may be genetically better equipped to adapt to climate changes than others, according to a new study in the January 5 issue of Science.

Unfortunately, the results of this study suggest that some yellow warbler populations that are most genetically vulnerable to climate change have already been declining over the past half - century, says Bay.

The team analyzed genetic data from 229 yellow warblers living in 21 sites across North America, looking at how well - suited the genetic variation of individual birds was for their respective environments.

Growing up in southern Vermont, Richard Prum developed an ear for birdcalls and learned from the ladies of the local garden club how to tell a warbler from a migratory hawk.

The CEAP assessment, led by Jeffery Larkin, professor of biology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and forest bird habitat coordinator with the American Bird Conservancy, evaluates the effectiveness of young forest management in creating quality habitat for the golden - winged warbler and other wildlife species.

Most of them occurred in Europe and concerned species that nest close to ground, such as the whitethroat, wood and reed warbler, and chiffchaff.

By using tracer chemicals in experiments with live garden warblers, the researchers followed a circuit of neurons from the cryptochrome molecules to the «cluster N» area of the brain, which is active during navigation, showing for the first time that cluster N uses information from the retina.

Even without avian diseases and climate change, the honeycreepers still face threats from habitat loss, introduced predators and competition with non-native birds (some of whom, such as the Japanese bush - warbler, are thriving on the plateau, the study finds).

Beginning in 1979, when all deer hunting was stopped at Front Royal, McShea and his colleagues watched for 13 years as the warbler disappeared from four of five habitat zones on the reserve.

Like many temperate - breeding migrant birds, hooded warblers in continuous forest cheat on their partners so often that fully one - third of their offspring result from extrapair copulations.

Warblers from the northern part of the breeding range — which extends from Georgia to Canada — winter in Cuba and Jamaica, whereas birds from the south go to Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, the team reports in the 8 February issue of Science.

The good news for avian conservation is that male hooded warblers frequently cross gaps of up to 450 meters, and they don't seem to require corridors connecting forest patches.

A breakthrough technique has allowed scientists to track the migration of the black - throated blue warbler.

Rubenstein analyzed the isotopic signatures of feathers from wintering warblers to reveal the location of their breeding sites.

Just as many kids today remain at home long after they could set out on their own, the female offspring of the Seychelles warbler tend to hang around the nest for a few years, waiting for a chance to breed.

But could the warblers actually order up chicks of the preferred sex?

Team member Kristina Paxton of the University of Hawaii, Hilo, spent 2 months catching warblers in 2008 and again in 2009 as they passed through a stopover site on the Lower Colorado River in Arizona.

The results, posted on 8 August in a preprint on bioRxiv, showed six genetically distinct groups of Wilson's warbler.

Then there are the delicate interactions between warblers and armyworm caterpillars, including what happens when the system breaks down through habitat destruction from logging and the overuse of insecticides.

When yellow warblers heard the noise, these natural enemies of the caterpillars hesitated, jumped back, or flew off.

These observations indicate that Hooded Warblers are acutely sensitive to the costs of providing parental care during molt.

Irked that the music in the trees had all but ceased, a ladies» club called Hui Manu imported the Northern mockingbird, the Japanese white - eye, the Japanese bush warbler, and at least a dozen other kinds of songbirds in the 1930s.

Hooded Warblers have an unusual combination of traits that makes conflicts between parental care and molt likely.