Sentences with phrase «regions around bird»

The Waigeo and Misool regions around Bird's Head Peninsula have scores of dive sites that have a profusion of spectacular corals and critters, as well as a couple of signature manta ray cleaning stations too.

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To expand the scientific knowledge base, a team of UC Santa Barbara scientists set out to estimate the vulnerability and extinction risk of migratory birds, mammals and fishes from different regions and ecosystems around the world.

A study of birds around Chernobyl suggests that nuclear fallout, rather than stress and deteriorating living conditions, may be responsible for human birth defects in the region.

For the study, Pimm, along with study lead author Natalia Ocampo - Peñuela and colleagues, looked at 586 species of birds (the team is composed primarily of bird researchers) currently on the IUCN Red List from six bird - rich regions around the world, including the Western Andes of Colombia, Southeast Asia, and Brazil.

Many birdwatchers from Canada, the United States and from all around the world visit the region to see the birds.

Climatic fluctuations may play a large role, as this bird favours the eastern Sahel region for its winter stay — an area that experienced strong droughts in and around the 1980s.