Sentences with phrase «vast numbers of bird»

eBird's goal is to maximize the utility and accessibility of the vast numbers of bird observations made each year by recreational and professional bird watchers.

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.

Not exact matches

Self - assembly enables nature to build complex forms, from multicellular organisms to complex animal structures such as flocks of birds, through the interaction of vast numbers of limited and unreliable individuals.

«There is a vast number of shearwater and petrel colonies for which we have absolutely no idea whether there are hundreds of pairs, or thousands, or tens of thousands,» says Steffen Oppel of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

«The pressure on these birds by market gunners and others in the US and Canada was so relentless that the vast flocks that were en route to the Pampas of Argentina, where they were again shot in great numbers, simply melted like snow before the midday sun.

The story misses this important development, that long before finding the first feathered dinosaur in the mid 1990s, the vast majority of paleontologists and an increasing number of young ornithologists realized and had accepted the mountain of osteological evidence, which Ostrom had pioneered, that frames birds as dinosaur descendants.

Genovesa is often referred to as «Bird Island» for the vast numbers of pelagic seabirds that come here to nest.

Bryce contends that the wind industry kills a «vast» number of birds every year — especially eagles — and insists the administration of President Barack Obama is playing favorites, allowing wind developers to go scot - free while «aggressively» prosecuting the oil and gas industry for the same infraction.

The ABC letter says that in addition to ESA - protected birds, vast numbers of other migrants also move through or breed in these areas.