Sentences with phrase «summer molt»

Spring and Summer Molt April: Females and juveniles return to molt.

During nesting season each spring and during and shortly after the summer molt, adult geese are aggressive and can threaten people — especially children — who wander close to nests or get between the birds and the water.

We see spikes in ticks on pets in the spring and fall — they generally spend the summer molting and this is not an active feeding time.

Not exact matches

Whereas the beluga, the narwhal's nearest relative, is known to enter warmer estuarine waters in the summer to molt, this skin - renewal process had never been scientifically documented for narwhal, in part because no scientist has ever spent sufficient time in remote Arctic locations to record such an event.

Many species of mammals and birds molt from summer brown to winter white coats to facilitate camouflage.

After spending a relatively leisurely winter and early spring luxuriating in warm tropical climates, they migrate north for a brief but highly eventful summer in North America, during which they must complete three energetically demanding and time - consuming tasks: (1) they must build nests, lay eggs, and provide for their offspring until the young reach independence, (2) they must completely replace all the feathers in their plumage as part of the annual molt, and (3) they must prepare for the fall southward migration by eating prodigiously and storing the body fat that will fuel their long - distance flights.

Animals have evolved to be in sync with seasonal change: They bring young into the world just as nutritious green sprouts emerge in spring, and molt to blend in with winter whites and summer green - browns.

Twenty - one species of mammals and birds rely on the ability to change their coat color from brown in summer to white in winter to avoid fatal encounters with predators, but in some parts of their range individuals forgo the white molt and remain brown in winter.

Soft - shell or «shedder» lobsters — that is, adult lobsters in the yearly process of molting — hit Maine's markets in June and become more plentiful as the summer wears on.

During the winter season, their fur is denser and thicker, and after molting, slicker and more lightweight in the summer months.

They molt during the spring and summer, so they will need to be brushed more often to prevent mats.

It's especially important to brush the Exotic in the spring and summer, for they molt in warm weather, and the loose hair can easily form mats if not brushed out.

In the late spring / early summer, it will molt and grow new fur.

Females molt in the spring, juveniles in the early summer, and adult males molt in the late summer.

The bulls return in summer to molt, and the juveniles in the fall.