Sentences with word «waterbird»

«For more than 30 years we have carried out an annual aerial survey of waterbirds in an area covering almost a third of the continent.

Last year, the Murray - Darling Basin Authority recommended a reduction in environmental flows of 70 gigalitres per year from the Darling River catchments, including a reduction of environmental flows to the internationally important Macquarie Marshes, which the study shows have also suffered a long - term decline in waterbird numbers across most species.

The first priority was to support waterbird populations by watering habitats that are critical feeding sites.

Residual inundation in the Gingham and Gwydir wetland from environmental water delivered in 2014 - 15 helped maintain native vegetation communities and provided habitat for waterbirds and frogs early in 2015 - 16.

A landmark 30 - year - long UNSW Sydney study of wetlands in eastern Australia has found that construction of dams and diversion of water from the Murray - Darling Basin have led to a more than 70 per cent decline in waterbird numbers.

Specifically, Commonwealth environmental water was released from Hume Dam to support in - channel, wetland and low elevation floodplain habitat along the length of the River Murray to improve the condition and promote the migration of native fish species; support waterbird habitat and breeding events; and, mobilise and export salts from the River Murray system.

Supporting waterbird breeding, where feasible.

Lisa Chalk, Communications Director at Animals Australia, told Mashable with the state election coming up this weekend, the organisation wanted to create awareness about the fact shooting of native waterbirds is still legal in the state of Victoria.

Mass Audubon President Gary Clayton, who will make the award presentation at the Birders Meeting, noted that Mostello's important efforts on behalf of coastal waterbirds align with the legacy of the organization's founding mothers.

There have also been significant increases in waterbird species diversity and total abundance at sites that received environmental water in Gwydir river system.

Between 24 January and 18 February 2017, 17,039 ML of Commonwealth environmental water was delivered in conjunction with 29,374 ML of NSW environmental water to the Macquarie Marshes to support the completion of a naturally triggered colonial waterbird breeding event.

``... large, diving waterbirds with rounded heads and dagger - like bills.

Hakawai melvillei was a small wading bird that lived about 19 million years ago during the Miocene epoch, around an ancient subtropical lake on the edge of a floodplain, with many other waterbirds, waterfowl, crocodilians and bats.

The Marshes are an important breeding site for colonial waterbirds.

Spectacular coastal scenery and inland lagoons home to than two hundred species of migratory waterbirds..

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.

«This fact, along with conservation policies on waterbird densities and flamingos exploiting alternative artificial habitats such as ricefields and fish ponds, has caused an increase in flamingo populations in southern Spain,» the UGR researcher remarks.

Besides, wetlands are the refuge and breeding site of countless waterbirds such as the greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) that inhabits the Fuente de Piedra lake.

Proper management of Lake Abert and other saline lakes in the West is critical to waterbird conservation in the Western Hemisphere.

The DEC is investigating the deaths of waterbirds found along the shores of Lake Ontario in Wayne, Oswego and Jefferson counties.

These ancient structures can be seen around the edges of the lake, together with native plants, frogs and over 100 species of birds — including waterbirds, small «bush» birds, seabirds, waders and some birds of prey.

Flows are reducing in late December, with environmental water continuing to support native fish and waterbirds from January onwards.

In the Gingham and Gwydir Wetlands environmental water deliveries inundated 6,342 ha of wetland, promoting the growth of native wetland vegetation, increasing waterbird presence, and facilitating critical nutrient cycling and metabolic processes to stimulate wetland foodwebs.

You'll discover diverse wildlife and waterbirds along the river, creeks and old oxbow lagoons and learn about the river's rich heritage, including Aboriginal culture, pastoralism, paddle - steamers, locks, irrigation issues and environmental stewardship.

For this study, waterbird data were drawn from the Bureau of Land Management and the East Cascades Audubon Society surveys, which used the time and efforts of dozens of community scientists to document changing bird numbers at Lake Abert.

A diverse range of guided tours operate regularly and, as well as homemade morning tea, can include broad acre day land farming on a working property, the landcare work that has made this property an award winner, spectacular wildflowers and bushland, native fauna, mining heritage from some of Western Australia's first mines, local indigenous history and the peaceful section of protected river with its many waterbirds.

See also: Joint Commonwealth Environmental Water Office and NSW Government media release — Thousands of waterbirds return to the Macquarie Marshes

Of those remaining, Victoria sees more waterbirds killed by shooters than any other location in Australia.

Commonwealth environmental water will be delivered to support wetland vegetation, fish and waterbird colonies in the Macquarie Marshes, if required.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Office contracted the CSIRO to undertake a short - term monitoring project to assess the impacts of predation on breeding colonies, where waterbirds forage and roost, and their dispersal patterns after breeding.

Information collected from the monitoring will inform adaptive environmental water management in the Macquarie Marshes and at other important waterbird locations across the basin.

January 28 — April 14, 2018 Encounter four centuries of art depicting the many and varied waterbirds in this exhibit, a rare opportunity to view artworks from Mass Audubon's extraordinary collection.

Mass Audubon partners with the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife (DFW) on coastal waterbird protection, rare species protection, and planning for climate change, among other issues.

Our avian research was generously supported by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, Foundation M, Island Foundation, Nuttall Ornithological Club, A. J. Stout Foundation, Minerals Management Service, Sea Duck Joint Venture Program, and the Wild Waterbirds Conservancy.

The awardee is Carolyn Mostello, a coastal waterbird specialist for the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife (Mass Wildlife) who has devoted her career to restoring populations of federally endangered roseate terns and other island nesting species in Buzzards Bay.

The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust has released research this week warning that a third of waterbirds suffer from lead poisoning through eating lead shot.

Bald eagles primarily eat fish, but also scavenge for carrion and occasionally eat waterbirds and their eggs.

He points out that, perhaps not surprisingly, «this is the first time anyone has bothered to quantify the passage of [invertebrate] eggs through waterbird guts.»

The study is based on data gathered for more than 25 years at Lake Abert in Oregon, one of the most important stops for migrating waterbirds in the western United States.

«Waterbirds affected by low water, high salt levels in lakes.»

And in June Syncrude was found guilty of violating provincial and federal law when 1,600 waterbirds died in one of its tailings ponds near Fort McMurray (the company may appeal the decision).

The closest cousin of these brightly colored waterbirds is the grebe, a diving bird that looks like a duck.

Meckstroth, A.M. & Miles, A.K. (2005) Predator removal and nesting waterbird success at San Francisco Bay, California.

During this spring semester pilot program, 22 students from SFSU and CCSF were hired as Academic Interns in a wide spectrum of capacities: habitat restoration, aquatic ecology, vegetation ecology and endangered species, waterbird monitoring, education and interpretation, stewardship and volunteer management, new media and community outreach, GIS mapping, library research, business management, facilities management, environmental protection and sustainability programs.

An extraordinary oasis not to be missed is Lake Eyre, a huge shimmering area of dry white salt that occasionally fills when the rivers flow and hundreds of thousands of waterbirds fly in for a feast of tiny brine shrimp.