Sentences with phrase «on fall migration»

Formerly unheard of in North America north of Florida and south Texas, the species is now a regular in small - to - medium flocks on fall migration north all the way to New England and the eastern Great Lakes.

For over thirty years, the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory's 300 + team of volunteer scientists have counted and banded raptors on fall migration.

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«These forecasts don't take into account actual policy changes on migration — such as the possibility of stricter immigration rules in the event of leaving the EU — but instead just consider how migration tends to fall when unemployment rises.

Net migration fell significantly in 2012, as the coalition government's crackdown on «bogus» student visas and tighter restrictions on non-EU migrants took effect.

On immigration the prime minister asserted that the government's policies were working and that illegal immigration and net inward migration was falling.

Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) use their internal clock and the sun to guide them 4,000 kilometers south on their annual fall migration from eastern North America to central Mexico.

After all, plenty of young walruses die each year on the sea ice, and Pacific walruses have come ashore on Russian beaches in past decades during their fall migrations.

Using data on all the ultralight - trained birds» spring and fall migrations from 2002 to 2009, the researchers found that neither genetic relatedness nor gender had any effect on the whooping cranes» tendency to stay on the shortest migratory route.

- An immature male Hooded Warbler, banded in August 1987 at Hilton Pond during fall migration, was netted the following May on breeding grounds near Chapel Hill, N.C., by a graduate student studying this species.

These shorter winters mean the swans — which were hunted to the brink of extinction in the 1800s — now have more time to eat and grow strong before embarking on a long migration to the Pacific Northwest each fall, improving their chances for survival.

The centerpiece was inspired by the annual fall migration of several birds and butterflies that pass through Texas on their way to Mexico.

«We continue to see migration from 60 - plus - day to 90 - plus - day delinquencies within the 2006 vintage, suggesting that homeowners who experience early delinquencies are finding it increasingly difficult to refinance or work out problems, as opposed to being able to cure falling behind on payments,» the rating agency said.

In the rural areas prices keep on falling because of migration to the cities and demographic developments.

Sooty shearwaters breed on islands near New Zealand, Australia and Chile during September and October before following a figure - 8 migration pattern through the Northern Hemisphere and then southward again — passing through Monterey Bay in summer and early fall to feed.

Beaming faces were abundant on Hawk Hill during the fall 2014 migration season, which featured plenty of «celebrity» raptors, a loopy Redtail, a bald eagle flyby, and 300 intrepid Golden Gate Raptor Observatory volunteers.

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

Below, match up your Myers - Briggs personality type to a bird of prey observed during the fall migration over Hawk Hill in the Marin Headlands (if you don't know your Myers - Briggs type, you can find many versions of the test on the Internet).

After researching San Francisco in the fall of 2011, Lin developed a series of site - specific performances that explore the urban histories of migration and immigration, with particular focus on their political implications.

Their annual migration is one of the most awe - inspiring on Earth: Each fall, millions of these striking black - and - orange butterflies take flight on a 3,000 - mile journey across the U.S. and Canada to wintering grounds in Mexico's Sierra Madre mountains.

Despite the potential collective loss of millions of dollars in electric generation, the U.S. wind energy industry has voluntarily committed to changing how turbines are operated during the bats» fall migration season, slowing blade rotations to fewer than 1 - 3 revolutions a minute, depending on blade length, thereby reducing the risk of collision.

Nicholls et al. [11] tested scenario - driven variations of this «migration factor» with values ranging between one and two and assumed coastward migration to potentially offset falling population trends beyond 2050 for A1 and B1 Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES), resulting in a net increase of population exposed to coastal hazards.

Sophie Barrett - Brown, Head of the UK Practice at specialist immigration lawyers Laura Devine Solicitors, says: «A further fall in net migration may seem to be good news for those with concerns about immigration, but in reality it underlines a growing skills shortage impacting on businesses and public services.

At long last, the most unique, interesting and prospectively game - changing Inbox feature is ready for primetime, i.e. Gmail migration, after essentially getting a slightly wider - scale evaluation push on Allo with the IM app's Android and iOS launch back in the fall of 2016.

Last fall, the Pew Research Center released an interactive map on patterns of global population migration, making it easy to visualize the...