Sentences with phrase «study migrating birds»
The mission of the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory (GGRO) is to study migrating birds of prey along the Pacific coast and to promote public awareness of the state of raptor populations.
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The ponds of leftover toxic waste threaten millions of migrating birds, and studies have identified health problems in the nearby indigenous communities linked to pollution.
But to migrating birds, they're a potentially fatal attraction, according to a new scientific study.
A new study finds that migrating birds take mini-naps during the day but only rest half their brains at a time, allowing them to keep one eye open.
An ornithologist at the University of Rhode Island who studies the physiological changes that birds undergo to migrate has found that the capacity of a bird's gut to change with environmental conditions is a primary limiting factor in their ability to adapt to the rapidly changing climate.
The new study shows that small invertebrates can be transported over hundreds of kilometers by migrating birds.
An ornithologist who studies the physiological changes that birds undergo to migrate has found that the capacity of a bird's gut to change with environmental conditions is a primary limiting factor in their ability to adapt to the rapidly changing climate.
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.
A new study examines the activity patterns of four birds that migrate to northern Alaska and finds that there's no single way they cope with 24 - hour light.
The study takes a wide view of the world's songbirds, putting empirical evidence behind the observation that tropical birds are more colorful than their cousins from temperate climates, probably because they do not migrate.
This plan is advancing despite the fact that U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) radar studies show vast numbers of birds migrating through or wintering in this area.