Sentences with phrase «water birds from»

During winters the Ramganga Reservoir attracts many migratory bird species, especially water birds from Europe and Central Asia.

This is to address the evidence of the risk to water birds from lead shot.»

Not exact matches

She limits her practice to lizards, ferrets, birds, turtles and assorted creatures, ranging from Chinese water dragons and Chinese pygmy hamsters to chinchillas and kinkajous.

The scents of rose water Sprinkled on sawdust, bird lime, blood, and fungus Commingled in the air, like a chimera Exhaled from broken mouths.

She was usually nude and almost always seen from behind, engaging with nature, animals, birds, water, fish, the elements, but always essentially with herself.

Gannets are diving birds which plunge from the air into the water.

Lions, zebras, deer, and birds will drink from the same water, and while the rains are absent, will not stray too far from the water, for they know that the water is their life.

3 cups water, or skim milk 1 cup Old World Cereal, Old World Cereal from Blue Bird Grain Farms — See Notes for using Steel Cut Oats 1/8 teaspoon kosher salt 1/2 cup fruit, see notes dried fruits 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 teaspoon honey 4 ounces walnuts, chopped

Take the drippings from the bird, transfer them to a pot, and cook it with a slurry made of cornstarch and water.

The CSIRO conducted short - term monitoring on behalf of the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder to assess both the impacts of predators during waterbird breeding and the birds» patterns of movement away from the colony during and after breeding.

Improved outcomes for native fish, birds, frogs and habitat from environmental watering: 2014 - 15 Outcomes Snapshot

For example, incompatible sediment coming from an upland site might cause water to puddle which would create a hazardous nesting site for birds.

With this package you can see 32,000 aquatic animals — 1,500 species of fishes, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates, birds and mammals from waters around the world — during your stay at the Hilton Chicago.

These projects include work to protect water voles in the South West of England from habitat loss and predation by the American Mink; work to safeguard the future of dormice in Cheshire and the creation of wildlife corridors benefitting birds, mammals and amphibians in North Wales.

Researchers from Radboud University in the Netherlands found that in the two decades since Dutch farmers began using the pesticide on a variety of crops, the birds» population declined by an average of 3.5 percent annually in farmlands where local water levels contained high concentrations of the chemical.

HOW SWEET Long before humans inhabited Polynesia, sweet potatoes may have been carried across the ocean from South America to the South Pacific islands by wind, water or maybe even birds.

The city birds bested their country counterparts in one other trait: They have more robust immune systems, possibly from scavenging food and water in dirty places.

Years later, in 2007, the EPA concluded that there were «potential human health risks» from drinking - water contamination, as well as risks to birds and other wildlife.

Data from banded birds eventually revealed that the rise and fall of both penguin species tracked, roughly, with the amount of krill in nearby waters.

The theory is thus that the fish eggs stick to water birds» feathers or feet; the birds then fly from one body of water to the next, where the fish hatch from their eggs.

«The lack of evidence does not mean that water birds are not responsible for the dispersal,» says Dr. Philipp E. Hirsch from the University of Basel.

And knowing that a large percentage of the birds killed are from neighboring states could muddy the management waters.

Normally, the crustacean tries to evade predatory birds by turning away from the sun and diving into the water, note parasitologists Frédéric Thomas of the University of Marseilles in France and Simone Helluy of Wellesley College in Massachusetts.

These and other finds — from the bones of various animals and birds to numerous worked and unworked deer antlers — suggest that the Cetamura well, like other water sources in antiquity, was regarded as sacred.

The transmitters send signals via satellite to Toulouse in France, and from there electronically to Cambridge, 10 times a day, so the researchers can tell where the birds are, how fast they are flying and whether they are in the water.

A recent study from researchers at the University of Montana, National Audubon Society, Oregon State University and East Cascades Audubon Society shows food sources for migratory birds decline with low water levels and high salt content in lakes.

As of Saturday, just 24 oiled birds had been rescued from Gulf of Mexico waters around oil - spill containment ships or on the beaches, where volunteers and experts are on the lookout.

The survey revealed that inland wetlands were more important to both resident and migratory birds than had been realized, and that wetland loss from damming and the diversion of river water for irrigation was at least in part responsible for the shorebird decline in Australia.

Prof Perissinotto and his NMMU colleague Dr Matthew Bird, together with water beetle specialist Prof David Bilton (Plymouth University), collected specimens ranging from 1 mm to almost 5 cm in length (the tadpole eaters).

Your tour price also includes three daytime excursions: A day excursion to a macaw sanctuary; from the lodge & rsquo; s private pier, we set out on a half - day boat tour along the Gulf of Nicoya, visiting a mangrove habitat that & rsquo; s home to many exotic water birds; and we also make a short overland journey to a spectacular lookout point at sunset.

Jason Charlwood, a conservation specialist with Ducks Unlimited, points to hundreds of water birds, freshly arrived from the south, sitting on one of the spring's last pieces of floating ice.

He re-told the familiar tale of the evolution of land animals from ancient fish, and then considered the return of various groups of reptiles, birds and mammals to an aquatic existence: ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, crocodiles, sea - snakes, penguins, whales, dolphins and porpoises, manatees and dugongs, and seals — as well as polar bears, otters and water voles, who hunt in water.

A high - resolution image from the CTX camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is draped over topography data to create a bird's - eye view of martian gullies, features thought to represent relatively recent flow of water on the surface of Mars.

Soon, plant - eating animal life followed (including Arthropods such as the scorpion - like Eurypterids that moved from marine waters into brackish then fresh water — some species becoming amphibious and emerging onto land for part of their life cycle after becoming capable of breathing in both water and air — which eventually evolved into insects, and finally, by 379 million years ago, animals with backbones known as «vertebrates» which evolved from Fishes that moved onto land to evolve into Amphibians and eventually into Reptiles, Dinosaurs, Birds, and Mammals — Niedzwiedzki et al, 2010).

Visual signaling from biologically - inspired robots has been used to investigate the behavior of birds [27]--[31], dogs [32], lizards [33], fish [22], [34]--[42], and rats [43]; salient chemical cues have been implemented on a miniature mobile robot to investigate social behavior of cockroaches [44]; audio feedback has been integrated in a model of a robotic squirrel to influence squirrels» behavior [45]; pulsing air currents created by robotic honeybees have been used to investigate honeybees» dance [46]; and hydrodynamic cues from a swimming robotic fish have been considered in [20] to modulate fish behavior in a water tunnel.

Since his discovery of nanobes in Italian hot spring deposits, Folk says he has found nanobes in such things as bird bath scum, decayed leaves in streams, brownish water from old flower bouquets, air filters, tap and well water, hair, feces, blood, gallstones, chicken egg shells, clam shells, and teeth.

More than 10,000 migrating birds in the U.S. have died from an outbreak of avian cholera caused by reduced water flowing through marshlands of Oregon and California, according to federal wildlife officials.

Nature recordings will do in a pinch, but if you can actually listen to crickets, birds, falling water even from an indoor fountain, or the like it can help you feel more centered.

Truth: Throughout the world, primitive peoples sought out and consumed fat from fish and shellfish, water fowl, sea mammals, land birds, insects, reptiles, rodents, bears, dogs, pigs, cattle, sheep, goats, game, eggs, nuts and milk products (Abrams, Food & Evolution 1987).

Lol we seriously had such a fun morning shooting at Sea Port Village with the amazing Shannon from Lil Bird at a local cupcake shop and out and around the shops and water in the area.

The cuddly aquatic water birds steal the show from Jim Carrey in this Friday's hysterical family adventure.

ANNETTE BENING Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool Available from 19th March FRANCES McDORMAND Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Currently unavailable on VOD MARGOT ROBBIE I, Tonya Currently unavailable on VOD SALLY HAWKINS The Shape of Water Currently unavailable on VOD SAOIRSE RONAN Lady Bird Currently unavailable on VOD

Picture: Stana Katic - Photographs from the red carpet at the Los Angeles premiere of Magnolia Pictures» «White Bird In A Blizzard» presented by FIJI Water...

The positives: prestige films from Fox Searchlight's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri to The Shape of Water, NEON / 30West's I, Tonya, A24's The Disaster Artist, Lady Bird and The Florida Project, Sony Pictures Classics» Call Me By Your Name and others have been performing strongly at the box office.

The best picture nominees, from top left: «The Shape of Water,» «Dunkirk,» «Lady Bird.»

Saoirse (23) is up for the Best Actress BAFTA for her role in Greta Gerwig's coming of age story Lady Bird but faces stiff competition from Annette Bening for Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, Frances McDormand for Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri, Margot Robbie for I Tonya, and British actress Sally Hawkins for The Shape of Water.

From The Shape of Water to Lady Bird, the full list of films up for a gong at this year's leading British film awards

Ronan (23) was up for the gong for her role in Greta Gerwig's coming of age story Lady Bird, but faced tough competition from McDormand for Three Billboards as well as Annette Bening for Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, Margot Robbie for I Tonya, and British actress Sally Hawkins for The Shape of Water.

From a list of eleven contenders, «Lady Bird» emerged as the favorite among the staff, while «The Shape of Water» almost nabbed the win.

The splashiest films at T.I.F.F. largely came from directors with minimal Oscar race experience, among them Call Me by Your Name's Luca Guadagnino, The Florida Project's Sean Baker, The Shape of Water's Guillermo del Toro (a previous nominee for his Pan's Labyrinth screenplay), and most thrillingly, two young actors - turned - directors: Lady Bird's Greta Gerwig, and The Disaster Artist's James Franco (a best - actor nominee for 127 Hours).