Sentences with phrase «species of geese»

Across the four countries studied, the team assessed data from six case studies, involving nine different management approaches, five species of goose and one species of crane.

Not exact matches

Usual heavy concentrations of white fronted geese reported, but blues and snows are crowding them out of feed and water, suggesting need for more lenient limits on these species.

However, top - down input (in the form of the intercountry species management plan) was also deemed essential for ensuring that the focus remained on goose conservation, as opposed to farmer reimbursement.

Julia Clarke, an NSF - funded paleontologist at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), described the fossil as belonging to a new species related to today's ducks and geese, and gave it the name Vegavis iaai.

With the help of fellow researcher Dustin Rubenstein, a behavioral and evolutionary ecologist at Columbia University, Botero collected data for more than 200 bird species that included gulls, geese, ducks, sparrows, bluebirds and falcons.

The government's Environment Agency, which was responsible for drawing up the report, defended its position by saying there was no evidence that the channel would affect Lake Utonai which is home to more than 100 species of waterfowl, including the rare white - fronted goose.

He has observed polar bears eating more than 200 eggs in 2 hours, and last year no chicks or eggs of any species — barnacle geese, eiders, and glaucous gulls — survived.

Here's a goose bump - inducing fact for you: Florida is home to more than 80 species of mosquitoes — more than in any other state or province in North America.

We also see a large amount of other avian species like chickens, ducks and geese.

Mild winters, bay waters, and abundant food supplies attract over 392 species of birds to Aransas, including pelicans, herons, egrets, spoonbills, shorebirds, ducks, and geese.

We often think about members of a species gathered together, such as «a gaggle of geese,» or a «pack of wolves.»

Flightless geese, giant mice, and pygmy mammoths are extinct, while the island fox, spotted skunk, and munchkin dudleya (one of six plant species found only on this island) still live here.

This provides an opportunity to spot a vast range of animals including Kangaroo Island kangaroos, Tammar wallabies, short - beaked echidnas, koalas, Rosenberg's goanna and 260 species of birds, with endangered glossy black cockatoos, hooded plovers, Cape Barren geese, scarlet robins, southern emu - wrens and caspian terns - prime species for enthusiasts.

Magpie geese nest in the bulkuru sedges, and the melaceuca woodland is ideal habitat for a number of woodland species.

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

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This time, the problem is with a species of bird that is staying put in the winter months instead of migrating south.A new report from the U.S. Geological Survey published in Arctic reveals the Pacific brant, a small sea goose, is now wintering in sub-Arctic areas.