Sentences with phrase «over the breeding season»

George has been coming in nightly for his food for many years now but disappears for a few weeks over the breeding season and then returns once more to entertain everyone with his eating manners.

They tended to gain weight over the breeding season, meaning they stayed in better overall health.

Not exact matches

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They may not get more mating opportunities during a single breeding season, says Andersson, but they must have more reproductive success over their lifetime than territorial males.

To prove their assumptions, the research team monitored a population of blue tits living in a forest in central Spain over the course of two breeding seasons.

Although ringed seals move over wide areas during the open water season, especially adults are quite sedentary in the breeding season in the winter.

The researchers studied Eastern Rockhopper Penguins (Eudyptes chrysocome filholi) on New Zealand's sub-Antarctic Campbell Island over two consecutive breeding seasons.

«DNA methylation is a key mechanism by which day length and melatonin levels exert seasonal control over the expression of the deiodinase enzyme known as dio3, and dio3 expression likely acts as a key step for the maintenance of reproductive competency during the breeding season,» said co-author Tyler Stevenson, senior lecturer at the Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.

During breeding season, which takes place over the winter months, groups of male humpback whales will display for potential mates by singing their famously haunting songs, breaching, and performing a host of other competitive displays that depend on speed, strength and size.

To find out how the breeding season plays out, Hudson and his colleague Jinzhong Fu monitored moustache toads living on a 300 - metre stretch of river near Mount Emei in Sichuan, China, over two breeding seasons.

We have collectively driven our Four Season Audi an astonishing 19,198 miles over the past five months, but in this case familiarity with the A7 has not bred contempt.

They're often found in large flocks that can reach over 100 birds, though mating pairs will fly off to find a tree cavity to nest in come breeding season.

She is in heat for five days or so and then out of heat for a couple of weeks, then back in, then back out over and over until she is either bred or the seasons change.

The ward is designed to house over 200 adjustable cages, each with the ability to accommodate a combination of orphaned kittens or a litter and nursing mother, and has the capacity to safely house and care for up to 2,000 kittens during a full feline breeding season (April through September).

[3] Accounting for the first point alone, then, my estimate is reduced to 8,000 birds killed over the 22 - week breeding season.

Providing outdoor cats with resources allows them to breed several times over one season and have large litters that can start breeding at 6 months old.

Over the years, such actions prompted angry protests from municipal leaders and citizen groups upset that sections of their beaches had been fenced off during the shorebird's breeding season.

The researchers write that in a comparison of nine Dutch breeding populations, they found that populations have declined by about 90 percent over the then previous two decades «in areas where the food for provisioning nestlings peaks early in the season and the birds are currently mistimed».

The bird study will include an automated network to record songbird calls over the next five breeding seasons, allowing scientists to track songbird numbers.

Also, many of the colonies where counts do exist were last counted several decades ago, while other counts rely on estimates from late in the breeding season... These concerns over the lack of a baseline population figure for the species have led to the suggestion that emperor penguins should be re-classified by the IUCN from «of least concern'to «data deficient»»