Sentences with phrase «population of birds»

Islay is a beautiful and fertile Island and hosts a fantastic and varied population of birds and wildlife, due to the varied habitat, large wild areas and generally mild climate it is home to many species that are scarce across the rest of the UK.

The government would provide the initial population of birds.

The threat of global warming could be a far greater threat to the population of birds than wind farms».

The wattled curassow depends heavily on rivers (and the humid lowlands and forests that house them) for the fish, insects, and other small waterlife that it feeds on — and since they're native to South America, the deforestation, hunting, development, and logging that have been built up along the Amazon have also caused a drastic drop in the population of these birds.

The park is home to a surprisingly large population of birds and wildlife, and there are a number of Maya sites.

Islay is a beautiful and fertile Island and hosts a fantastic and varied population of birds and wildlife, due to the varied habitat, large wild areas and generally mild climate it is home to many species that are scarce across the rest of the UK.

Whenever a population of birds, insects, rodents etc... becomes endangered, city officials always choose to make the feral cats the scapegoat, in spite of the fact that it is usually human encroachment, various predatory species other than cats, hunters, climate change, disease or various other non - cat related causes that are to blame.

The loss of 1 cat to protect an ever - decreasing population of birds seems fair to me.

A study based solely on pet owners with birds doesn't come close to representing the vast and diverse population of birds kept in captivity; nor does it adequately reflect the nature and extent of the myriad of issues involved in addressing all aspects of captive bird welfare.

``... the ecological and conservation significance of these kill tallies is difficult to contextualise, because (1) there are no reliable estimates of the total population of birds in Australia; (2) predation may fall disproportionately on some bird species; (3) some bird species may be able to sustain high mortality rates and maintain viable populations but others may not; and (4) as demonstrated here, there is substantial spatial variation in the numbers and proportion of birds killed across Australia.»

A casual boy - meets - girl story takes a turn toward the extreme when the couple lands in the tiny town of Bodega Bay, California, just in time to witness its sizable population of birds attack.

At any given time, a smaller population of birds means less genetic diversity.

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.

ANU research predicted the population of the birds will halve every four years, with a possible decline of 94.7 per cent over 16 years.

«Compared to the enormous population of birds, damaging bird strikes are rare,» according to the report, which concluded the risk to the airspace caused by drones weighing up to two kilograms is minimal.

The trees and soil, the rivers, lakes and estuaries, the populations of birds and mammals, also have a right to life — not an absolute right, but a right that must be considered in relation to human rights.

«It's highly likely that in the future, drones will be used to monitor populations of birds and animals, especially in inaccessible areas where on the ground surveying is difficult or impossible.

Many believe that «naïve» populations of birds and people in the United States have never been exposed to the virus and are thus more susceptible to it, whereas Europeans have been exposed for centuries, potentially giving them some protection.

On other islands with large populations of birds, those birds might help to keep their islands crab - free by eating juvenile coconut crabs, preventing them from colonizing there.

Core sage - grouse states like Idaho and Nevada have scrambled to craft plans to increase populations of the bird so it won't be added to the threatened and endangered species list.

«Rachel was right about the drastic effect DDT was having on populations of birds, fish, and other wildlife,» Robbins says.

In 1959, the world population of this bird stood at just 26 individuals on Cousin, an island in the Indian Ocean less than a third of a square kilometre in area.

To find out, Sean Anderson of the University of Washington in Seattle and colleagues looked at data for 609 populations of birds, mammals and insects.

«Any bird populations on the continents that could not withstand these levels of predation from cats and other predators would have disappeared long ago, but populations of birds on oceanic islands have evolved in circumstances in which predation from mammalian predators was negligible and they, and other island vertebrates, are therefore particularly vulnerable to predation when cats have been introduced.»

Any individual or organization that promotes TNR or other methods of dealing with feral cats while letting them remain outdoors is promoting the decline of native populations of birds and small animals and then the eventual EXTINCTION of same.

Doves they can catch and occasionally an adorable little white eye however even if they got one per day (which they don't) they could never put a dent in the population of ANY bird species unless it was a protected species.

Hawkins has no idea what the cat area was like prior to his arrival; he merely assumes the populations of birds and rodents would have been identical to those found at the no - cat area, and makes his comparisons accordingly.

Scapegoating cats may seem like the easy answer, but in reality, killing more cats will not save populations of birds or small mammals.»

On islands and in fragmented urban and suburban habitats unnaturally high densities of cats are not only capable of reducing or eradicating populations of birds and small mammals, they can out - compete native predators like foxes and weasels.

Feral and outdoor cats are simply devastating populations of birds and other wildlife,» said Clare Nielsen, Director of Communications for American Bird Conservancy, one of the leading bird conservation organizations in the U.S.

Outdoor cats that hunt and kill native wildlife are so good at it, that they are considered invasive species and detrimental to native populations of birds.

GGRO volunteers have worked for more than three decades to track the populations of these birds of prey during fall migration.

Low species diversity and abundant resident populations of birds and other animals make the soda lakes of the property especially important environments in which to conduct investigations of trophic dynamics and ecosystem processes.

In autumn, hawks moving south are funneled over Hawk Hill in the Marin Headlands, where the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory conducts long - term citizen science projects in an effort to monitor the populations of birds of prey.

Unique to Isla Seymour Norte, cliffs located only a few feet from the shoreline are a big attractant for the islands large populations of birds, as is its small forest of palo santo trees.

Some species of marine mammals will be able to take advantage of increases in prey abundance and spatial / temporal shifts in prey distribution toward or within their primary habitats, whereas some populations of birds and seals will be adversely affected by climatic changes if food sources decline or are displaced away from regions suitable for breeding or rearing of young.

Not exact matches

The collapse in the bird population mirrors the discovery last October that over three quarters of all flying insects in Germany have vanished in just three decades.

Water entitlements are used by environmental water managers to improve water quality, increase native fish and bird populations and promote the growth of native vegetation, among other benefits.

Special emphasis is given to the protection of trees as a habitat for migratory and local bird populations as well as other wildlife.

Special emphasis is given to the protection of big trees as habitat for migratory and local bird populations and other wildlife species — a requirement not present in SAN's current 2010 standard.

Worldwide, habitat destruction is the leading cause of bird population declines and loss of biodiversity.

Organic farmers also rely on diverse populations of soil organisms, beneficial insects, and birds to keep pests under control.

choice of bird, as many populations are not migratory, and those that do winter in the northern tropics are found in lowlands and avoid higher elevations, where most coffee would be grown.

They used information on birds and trees in landscapes with different levels of production output to project how different species» population sizes would respond to different ways of using the land.

A three - year study in Denmark concentrated on the non-crop habitats, such as hedgerows, of conventional and organic farms and their effects on bird populations.

Worldwide, habitat destruction is the leading cause of bird population declines.

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

When the birds migrated last spring there were 26 whooping cranes left — in the entire population of the species.

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.

Focus on Feeders helps us understand the changes in populations during this stressful time of year for birds.»