Sentences with phrase «snow geese»

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

The early bear gets the goose: climate change, polar bears and lesser snow geese in western Hudson Bay.

In the first paper, published in spring 2013 in the journal Polar Ecology, the researchers provide, for the first time, data and video of polar bears pursuing, catching, and eating adult and juvenile lesser snow geese during mid-to-late summer, when the geese are replacing their primary flight feathers.

Oil exploration and development would displace snow geese from areas that are critically important to them.

Today's polar bears are preying more on caribou as well as on snow geese and their eggs.

There are about 100,000 snow geese at Middlecreek Wildlife Preserve and we're headed there today.

Weeds star Mary - Louise Parker is returning to the Broadway stage for new play Snow Geese in autumn (13).

A Guggenheim Fellowship supported Turner's experimentation combining linocuts and serigraphy as seen in the large subtly - colored print Wintering Snow Geese (1968).

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Snow geese feed on small patches of vegetation that are widely distributed across the Refuge's coastal tundra, so a large area is necessary to meet their needs.

Trophic matches and mismatches: Can polar bears reduce the abundance of nesting snow geese in western Hudson Bay?

For geese, to prevent a repeat of the December 7, 2011 massacre of numerous snow geese by wind turbines along upstate New York Route 190, as reported by a motorist?

Managers will also have to be attuned to indirect effects of climate change, not modeled here, on the golden - plover's habitat: everything from surging numbers of tundra - devouring Snow Geese to more humans and infrastructure associated with commerce and energy development.

Skip ahead to 3:50 to see the moment Snow Geese take flight w / Mount Baker in background.

Because of these delays, the brant arrive about 1 - 2 weeks after lesser snow geese and cackling geese causing them to miss out on prime nesting real estate.

Hundreds of snow geese, double - crested cormorants and fish crows were in evidence, but the numbers were very low for the mute swan, canvasback, ruddy duck, horned grebe, sharp - shinned hawk, Carolina wren and hermit thrush, with possibly an all - time low for the American tree sparrow.

It was a sparse report, Dr. Aldrich says, but it did reveal that about 20 of the birds were pintails and the remainder were snow geese and brants.

TEXAS: Nearly 100,000 waterfowl, mainly pintail, blue geese and snow geese, now in Eagle Lake - Lissie Prairie region of Colorado and Wharton counties, with flight almost completed.

Estimated 10,000 snow geese and sprinkling of honkers now in Salton Sea region, and Canadas are beginning to move into lower Colorado River sand bars and grain fields.

Williams said that this was an interesting year for the researchers as weather conditions caused a late thaw, which made it harder for the birds that arrived earlier — the snow geese and the cackling geese — to nest effectively.

Because the brant is smaller than the other two birds that nest in the area — snow geese and cackling geese — it is at a disadvantage when competing for habitat and food.

But this year nothing melted, so the snow geese hung around for a little bit but, ultimately, had almost a complete nesting failure,» said Williams.

The remains suggest that early colonisers hunted birds such as overwintering Canada geese, snow geese, albatross and cormorants — and possibly marine mammals like otters and seals — but also harvested a variety of shellfish from kelp forests, including mussels, red abalone and crabs.

The snow geese arrived first and, in theory, they are trying to time their landing just right in the Arctic when the icy tundra starts to melt.

Snow geese, for example, will fly in groups as large as 5,000.

Mary - Louise Parker will star in the world premiere of the play «The Snow Geese.»

Mary - Louise Parker is coming back to Broadway in the world premiere of Sharr White's «The Snow Geese.»

His first book, The Snow Geese, was published in 2002, and follows the migration of the snow geese from Texas to Baffin Island.

Springers can handle the early season work with retrieving teal, and continue hunting through the late waterfowl season with work on late season mallards and bluebills as well as Canada and Snow geese.

See these beautiful birds in their natural habitat, along with other species including bald and golden eagles, whooping cranes, snow geese, black crowned night heron and many more.

But now they find themselves onshore just as vast flocks of snow geese are nesting, providing an abundant supply of eggs and birds.

One species of bird that could be greatly impacted by oil development is the snow goose.

Large numbers of snow geese, varying each year from 15,000 to more than 300,000 birds, feed on the Arctic Refuge coastal tundra for three to four weeks each fall, on their way from nesting grounds on Banks Island in Canada to wintering grounds primarily in California's Central Valley.

While the two terrestrial diets broadly overlap, polar bears currently appear to be exploiting increasingly abundant resources such as caribou (Rangifer tarandus) and snow geese (Chen caerulescens caerulescens) and newly available resources such as eggs.

Across a 10 - day period of observation, we documented between four and six individual polar bears successfully capture at least nine flightless lesser snow geese (Chen caerulescens caerulescens) and engage in at least eight high - speed pursuits of geese.