Sentences with phrase «populations of geese»

This suggests that environmental conditions have changed for one of the northernmost - wintering populations of geese.

Also in the vulnerable Arctic ecosystems, an increase in the populations of geese may result in severe damage.

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Coyotes are part of our ecosystem and play a vital role in controlling smaller populations such as rodents, squirrels, mice and even Canada geese.

An expanding ice - free season also means bears» stay on land would overlap the entire caribou calving season and a good portion of a booming geese population's molt and egg - laying season.

A study in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment shows that the birds that took down U.S. Airways Flight 1549 were migrating geese, not a local N.Y.C. population — important info for development of aviation bird avoidance techniques.

«Barnacle goose population continues to grow, triples in the eastern Gulf of Finland.»

The size of the breeding population has also become stable in the Helsinki, Espoo and Sipoo region, where some 1,300 pairs of barnacle geese have been nesting annually during the past three years.

The only population of snow geese in all of Asia breeds on Wrangel island.

The focus of the research team, which includes UD graduate student Clark Nissley, was on the Atlantic brant goose, a bird whose population has been fluctuating and on a moderate decline for many years, to learn if limitations during the summer breeding season have accelerated that trend.

However, the populations of barnacle geese and pink - footed geese, both increasingly foraging on maize fields, are growing in Denmark and elsewhere in Europe.

About ten years ago, only 7 % of the population wintered in Denmark, while the remaining geese continued further south.

They provide control on populations of small mammals and birds, such as beaver, geese and wild turkeys, and can help to provide stability in the composition and numbers of general wildlife populations (Voigt and Berg 1999, Gompper 2002).

Hearing her describe how the work of the Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights, and Law Program translates into real world outcomes by empowering local populations is when the goose bumps start, however.

Fresno's population of wild animals within its borders includes foxes, raccoons, opossums, squirrels, rats, skunks, coyotes, snakes, pigeons, and geese to name a few.

An upsurge in populations of Canada geese makes this turn of events likely, for the honkers are particularly skilled at protecting their nests and young and can be dangerous if cornered.

The H5N1 virus host population (the ducks, chickens, and geese) has decimated large populations of the host species.

(he breeds goats, chickens and geese as well as making cheese), in the Irish town of Cloone, population 327.

New York City has just started another round of killing hundreds of geese, at taxpayer expense, despite that the cull has so far failed to limit geese population growth or improve air safety.