There was also lots of other great wildlife to see in the area around Malham Cove including nesting little owls, green woodpeckers and redstarts. |
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Note that the definition of nesting success includes the effects of both nest predation and hatching success. |
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One of their major jobs was to hunt wild pigs that could devastate the breeding colonies when they were nesting. |
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Most of the sites of ground nesting bees we have examined where made by mining bees or digger bees and posed no hazard to the landowner. |
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A clothesline is the strongest indication that this battered house is occupied, although jackdaws seem to be nesting in the chimney. |
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It is not known if all the burrow nesting species excavate the tunnels or if some use tunnels dug by rodents or other animals. |
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The islands serve as nesting grounds for green sea turtles, home to millions of seabirds, and a refuge for rare monk seals. |
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What we will do with baby parakeets I'm not sure, but with help from a saw, some string, and a bungee cord, the nesting box is now in place. |
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The four females seen mating during two nesting attempts all remated with the same morph. |
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The male gathers nesting material, and the female builds a shallow mound on a shoreline. |
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I see evidence of nesting by fox squirrels, blue jays, American robins, and Baltimore orioles. |
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The evidence of nesting and parental care in ornithischian, sauropod, and theropod dinosaurs is extensive. |
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North Deer is recognized worldwide as having an outstanding concentration of colonial nesting birds, including skimmers, gulls and terns. |
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Recreational boating on nesting lakes, which can flood nests, may also have a negative impact on populations of Forster's Terns. |
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Earlier this month the area between seven and six furlongs was flailed and the nesting skylarks took flight. |
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He can see crows nesting on the underside of tree branches, and leaves fluttering down to the sky. |
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His essay on the desultory efforts made to protect the murrelet and its nesting grounds in oldgrowth forests is particularly acute. |
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If any other species is allowed to settle into a martin house at an unestablished site, those houses will rarely attract nesting martins. |
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The full Boolean is available from the main page search box and supports nesting. |
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The white droppings of birds served as location pointers for eagles and vultures nesting in the craggy reaches. |
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The Sierra Club works with the Oceanic Society to survey nesting patterns of many bird species here, and also aids in spinner dolphin research. |
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Many species of wildlife require openings or cavities in standing trees for nesting or shelter. |
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The different species of Galapagos finches show no differences in clutch size, incubation time, nesting time, or shape of the nest. |
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I'm slightly vexed to find that walking is restricted to footpaths during the grouse nesting season. |
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I hope their nesting was successful and that they raised a healthy brood of chicks. |
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Spotted redshank share their forest-marsh nesting grounds with wood sandpipers, greenshank, whimbrel, jack snipe and broad-billed sandpipers. |
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Not the friendliest neighbor in the rain forest, the goshawk is one of the most secretive of birds when it comes to nesting. |
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In this model, naive females accompany experienced females to nesting beaches regardless of the natal beach of origin. |
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This is a conservative measure because it assumes the nesting male does not obtain any fitness from sneaked spawns. |
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We woke to the merry sound of oyster-catchers and curlews busily nesting in the marshes and tried to trace the haunting drum of snipe in flight. |
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There was blossom on the trees, birds were singing and a stork was nesting in the neck of a rusting water tower on an abandoned farm. |
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The goose-predator interaction is further complicated by the presence of nesting snowy owls in peak lemming years. |
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When possible, grasslands found to be used by upland sandpipers should be managed to avoid disturbance during the nesting season. |
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The other clipped two have disappeared to a nesting site further along the canal, I expect. |
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I've got a jenny wren in the nesting box as well, so it must be my year this year. |
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The nesting population in North America may not be self-sustaining, and is supplemented by an influx of European vagrants. |
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Evening Grosbeaks breed in mixed conifer forests, but will used broadleaved trees for nesting and foraging. |
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East Point has nesting turtles, quolls, echidnas, goannas and other animals, and rich marine life. |
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The birds prospecting for nesting sites were most attracted to areas where other birds had large broods of robust infants. |
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At the jhils the various waterfowl are nesting and each one proclaims the fact by its allotted call. |
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Responsible behaviour is also required on the surface as birds will be nesting on the cliffs and huge rafts of them will also be on the water. |
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The conservationists at the reserve put up nesting boxes in haystacks bordering the grazing meadows. |
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I had a general invite to see Idol at a friend's house, but I was pooped and my nesting instinct was mighty. |
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Where a cover of bracken is found, it provides nesting cover for other bird species, particularly whinchats and wheatears. |
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In the Faroes and St Kilda, the nesting grounds were communal property, so everyone had a stake in leaving enough birds to breed for next year. |
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A man after my own heart, he still hand-codes his site for each entry, nesting tables within tables and thumbing his nose at structured data. |
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The young form flocks with other fledglings and adults when leaving the nesting area after breeding season. |
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Two of the beaches have evidence of more than 100 nesting pits each and appear to be especially important for hawksbills. |
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It is home to 300 species of birds, including 26,000 nesting pairs of herons, egrets, and ibises. |
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At nesting time the parents become bold and pugnacious attacking crows, magpies, cuckoos and kestrels crossing their territory. |
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Once their nesting is over, this ruse will not work, so one intent on rousing a rail in the fall must either wade or pole a boat through a marsh. |
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This development attracts passage migrant waders, nesting lapwing and redshank together with winter wildfowl. |
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These facts suggest that the availability of nesting sites and food are not limiting factors to raven recolonization of the region. |
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They've constructed loon, goose, and duck nesting platforms as well as wood duck and bluebird houses. |
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The nesting practices of Pigeon Guillemots vary from those of other alcids. |
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For example, if one finds reduced nesting success, is it due to competition with an exotic species for a nest site? |
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They are often found in mature and old-growth forests, but will breed in second growth as long as there are some large nesting trees. |
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It added that the contractor had taken care to look and see if any birds were nesting in the trees before starting work. |
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My daughter then pointed out a tree to the right of the cricket green as you look towards the common, where two other similar birds were nesting. |
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Many birds are nesting earlier than they used to, while others are overwintering in this country instead of migrating to warmer parts. |
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Areas scraped out for the embankments filled with water over the wet winter and birds are already nesting there. |
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This protected bird species had nested at the Baltic for many years and had to be moved to specially built nesting areas further down the river. |
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Kettles were extremely durable and easily transported by nesting them inside one another. |
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Permanent 6m grass margins ensure there are plenty of nesting sites and feeding areas for other birds such as whitethroats and yellowhammers. |
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The monogamous pair bond may hold throughout the year and extend into multiple nesting seasons. |
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The pair bond lasts for the duration of the nesting season, but birds do not appear to re-pair with the same mates the following year. |
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In the meantime, strategically placed brush piles in the woodland area supply the resident birds with nesting materials. |
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We wondered what would happen if a female lost her eggs or nestlings to predators and began the nesting cycle anew. |
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Starlings can be aggressive and will persistently harass other species to take over nesting cavities. |
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There is not much information available about where the birds are feeding and their nesting habitat closer to the marsh. |
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Establishing a pair bond is a prerequisite for acquiring and defending a nesting territory. |
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The hedge is teeming with wild bird life and just now, at the height of the nesting season, a model of industry. |
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Avoid nesting material for finches, canaries and other small birds because they may have artificial fibers such as polyester contained within. |
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You'll find eagles on the beautiful Isle of Skye and ospreys at Loch Garten, nesting red-throated divers in Islay, and corncrakes in Lewis. |
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We also have a lesser honeyguide in our garden forest, a species prone to use woodhoopoes and other hole nesting birds as their host. |
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Crested Auklet populations are declining due to predation at nesting sites by introduced predators such as Arctic foxes, red foxes, and rats. |
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Green and hawksbill turtles use the beaches for nesting, and the resort has a small hatchery. |
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Some islands provide nesting habitat that is critical to the survival of the endangered roseate tern. |
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Volunteers are planning to make decoys and place them on the island to attract roseate terns in time for next year's nesting season. |
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The work of coding these interfaces involves making loops, splicing loops together, and nesting loops within loops. |
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Within each nesting block, we tallied the number of avian nest predators observed. |
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This unprecedented nesting failure is caused by starvation from the overnight disappearance of the small silvery sand eels the birds feed on. |
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The sandwich terns nesting at Cemlyn have migrated from Africa to raise their young at the colony. |
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Other birds favour nesting on river gorge cliffs and the tops of rock pinnacles in gorges. |
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He's like a Rubik's Cube in a Chinese puzzle in a Russian nesting doll hidden in a maze with no exit. |
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They are easily frightened, and can only be lured out of their nesting grounds with offerings of mandrake root. |
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There's a small hole in the wall and he watched the chickadees go in with nesting material. |
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Their nesting success will depend on whether there is a plentiful supply of tent caterpillars this year or not. |
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For my class project I chose to map the foraging patterns of a nesting Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher. |
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Our boat noses into the tidal marsh, and we spot nesting egrets and barking sea lions. |
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Cape thick-knees mate for life and are protective parents, nesting in a shallow scrape next to a small landmark. |
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Yes, if I were a nesting bird, I'd find a coil of coax to be the perfect shape for a nest. |
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The East is the nesting place of the eagle and hawk, but also the home of mountain sheep and African cheetahs. |
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There is also a small species known as the barnacle goose, arrayed in motley plumage, of whose nesting haunts we have no certain knowledge. |
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For instance, some offshore islands are nesting sites for birds, and seals also bask on some of the inner islands and mainland coves. |
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Judging from the number of bones, pine cones, leaves, and droppings, rodents had used it as a nesting place for a long time. |
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Today, it's not the boll weevil but the pink bollworm that threatens southwestern Pima, nesting inside the bolls, where it is hard to get. |
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Adastus breeds at higher latitudes and elevations where willows are the dominant, and frequently the only, nesting shrub. |
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During the breeding season, Prairie Falcons inhabit dry, open areas with cliffs and bluffs for nesting. |
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In the spring, these British birds can beat their Spanish cousins back to Germany, getting dibs on the best nesting sites. |
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In some less convincing works these disks cluster within concentrically nesting rectangles. |
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In the eastern part of the State where the Swainson's hawks were once a common breeder, the cottonwoods and willows were used as nesting sites. |
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Growth data from otoliths indicate that sneakers and nesting males represent separate life histories. |
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Wild creatures, such as the pied wagtail, use the longer grass for nesting. |
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I cleaned out and disinfected their compartment, and put in fresh bedding and put back some of their previous twigs and straw nesting materials. |
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The great horned owl likes open areas the best or sometimes nesting areas close to the edge of the forest. |
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Total metabolizable energy intake per chick over the nesting phase of 1 to 14 days was 759.4 kj. |
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A calabash cut in half lengthways and attached in a corner of a likely nesting place could also attract swallows. |
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Flickers and bluebirds seek them out for nesting cavities and red squirrels eagerly cache the high-energy pine cones. |
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Raptors, colonial birds, shorebirds, wading birds, and waterfowl can all be found feeding and nesting on various islands in the Bay. |
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Although Alcatraz has no feral cats, which would be a major threat to the nesting birds, Norway rats were seen recently for the first time. |
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We have found a pair of nesting wallcreepers not far from the village and easily reached on foot, The birds are at this site until mid-July. |
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In the barn there are nesting pairs of barn owls, and sparrow hawks, while buzzards and peregrine falcons are regular visitors to the woods. |
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Ornithologists have recorded single feeding trips of 15,000 kilometers by nesting wandering albatrosses. |
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We attached satellite transmitters to turtles that had just finished nesting. |
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Oddities apart, visitors to the island are currently enjoying the annual spring spectacles of throngs of nesting seabirds and carpets of bluebells. |
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In colonially nesting Razorbills, a seabird traditionally viewed as monogamous with biparental care, both sexes attend mating arenas to obtain extrapair copulations. |
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In the Cavour high school in central Rome, mice run through the halls, nibbling on open wiring and nesting in the lockers. |
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Control of a non-native plant, the sandbur weed, has been very effective in restoring the duck's nesting habitat, which includes native bunch grass. |
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Like the pine warbler, the hermit thrush is an uncommon nesting bird for southwestern Connecticut, keeping to cool, coniferous woods resembling territory farther north. |
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The area is home to a variety of other birds, including nesting bald eagles, hawks, owls, bluebirds and several other songbirds, wild turkeys, herons, and waterfowl. |
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In contrast, nesting males cannot move freely between nests because of the territorial behavior of other nesting males and the risk of losing their current nest. |
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Breeding pairs defend large territories for nesting and foraging. |
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When nesting on a rock ledge, the fulmars do not build a nest, but when they nest on a bank or slope, they make a shallow scrape, occasionally lined with small stones. |
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Fort Hood contains essential nesting habitat for two endangered neotropical migratory songbirds, the golden-cheeked warbler and the black-capped vireo. |
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This can be accomplished by nesting elements under the parent element. |
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Until recently, winter nesting in British birds has been very rare beyond a handful of species that include the wood pigeon, feral pigeon, and collared dove. |
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Cape parrots occur in the moist forests of the southern and eastern parts of South Africa and use yellow-wood trees as roosts, nesting space and as a food source. |
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Eroded stream banks also provide prime nesting sites for the waterthrush. |
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But it also highlights the special relationship between the in-bye pasture, which is used by some birds for feeding, whilst the heather moorland is used for nesting. |
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Yes, I know it's hard to believe we had nature's fastest and most perfect killing machine nesting mere yards from us and we got fascinated by heron feet. |
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Particularly in northern regions, evergreens such as hemlocks, pines, spruces, and junipers provide essential protection, as well as seed crops and nesting sites. |
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But seabirds such as albatrosses and petrels, which have large, tubular nostrils, are known to use scent clues to locate nesting sites and prey out at sea. |
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The finishing touches have included nesting boxes and wildlife havens. |
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His cages are not pretty, but they are very functional, serviced by reticulated water and food at the front, with a door at the rear, adjacent to nesting hollows. |
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Along some nesting beaches 100 percent of the eggs are poached. |
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It is quite possible, even likely, that some studies misclassify fates of nests that are depredated late in the nestling stage, leading to overestimates of nesting success. |
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The thicker scrub and thickets of elder, hawthorn and bramble, meanwhile, provide ideal cover for nesting robins, wrens, sparrows, dunnocks, blackbirds and thrushes. |
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The research shows that birds nesting in areas of the woods where the soil is known to be low in calcium produce eggs that are more heavily speckled. |
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During the breeding season, reproductively active males establish territories around the underside of structures, such as snags, lily pads, and introduced nesting substrates. |
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Come springtime, birds everywhere are busy nesting and reproducing. |
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During one of the most severe dry seasons in the reserve's history, when fires threatened nesting trees, the whole research team turned to creating fire lines. |
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So if you do have swallows nesting, keep an eye open for chats and swifts. |
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Cracids are arboreal birds, nesting, roosting and foraging in the trees. |
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The trumpeter swan, largest and rarest of the world's eight swan species, was once a common nesting bird in north, west, and central North America. |
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They are highly social birds, often gathering in the evenings, except during nesting season, in large roosts that sometimes harbor hundreds of birds. |
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In the case of stock farming and game ranching care can be taken not to overstock and nesting areas of ground nesting bees and wasps can be protected from trampling. |
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These woodpeckers have also regularly attacked colonies of nesting house martins by clinging to the side of the inverted mud dome and chipping away a hold. |
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It took careful and patient observation to work out exactly where they were nesting as they seemed to wait until you looked away before vanishing into their hidey-hole. |
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Warner's Island historically provided habitat for the endangered roseate tern, which prefers nesting on small islands under or adjacent to objects that provide cover. |
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In successful nesting seasons, when floods did not inundate the nesting ground and predation was not severe, many young titanosaurs would survive. |
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Mill Creek foraging parties may have opportunistically harvested a number of resources from these wetlands including nesting waterfowl, muskrats, and arrowhead tubers. |
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Their results suggest that changes in amount or distribution of nesting habitat should result in detectable changes in murrelet numbers for individual drainages. |
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Some 30 damaged trees had to be lopped and pruned in an attempt to preserve them as well as deprive any returning bats of potential nesting sites. |
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He claimed the lighting and netting would ruin residents' views of Canary Wharf, and that nature groups believed owls nesting nearby would disappear. |
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However our parrots, such as lorikeets and rosellas, need weather proof nesting boxes for natural hollow logs fixed a minimum of 3 meters from the ground. |
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At the second pond I found a magpie hopping around near the water, some red-wattled plovers in the field, and a few Dead Sea Sparrows carrying nesting material. |
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Being in the desert was a new experience for me, a native Westerner who had never seen birds nesting in a saguaro nor tasted a prickly pear margarita. |
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Dotted with green islets and set in a spectacular lunar landscape, Lake Myvatn is notable for its luxuriant vegetation and for providing a home for 45 nesting bird species. |
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During the mating season, birds' attention turns toward nesting. |
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This can be achieved by allowing access through existing ventilation slits, louvres and hoods to self-contained nesting areas kept separate from the rest of the interior. |
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It contains historic wetlands that could be restored to provide important habitat for sandhill crane nesting and foraging as well as Oregon spotted frog breeding habitat. |
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We had our first recorded nesting of mute swans at the reserve. |
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Ornithologists estimate that anywhere from 1 to 4 million birds visit the basin on their way to or from their summer breeding and nesting grounds. |
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Wildlife managers say mute swans are destroying significant amounts of submerged aquatic vegetation and chasing other shorebirds away from their nesting sites. |
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It was not until we started working with local fishermen who knew their way into some of the most inaccessible lakes that we hit the mother lode of black caiman nesting sites. |
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However, after previously unbanded birds were banded during nesting, the understanding of territory boundaries and number of territories never changed. |
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Males take up nesting sites before the breeding season, by frequently calling beside them. |
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There are important populations of seals and internationally significant nesting grounds for a variety of seabirds such as gannets. |
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England's only nesting pair of golden eagles can be found in the Lake District. |
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While on the Farne Islands, Cuthbert instituted special laws to protect the ducks and other seabirds nesting on the islands. |
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There are numerous areas set aside to protect the local fauna and flora, including a number of important sea bird nesting sites. |
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Pitcairn Island is recognised because it is the only nesting site of the Pitcairn reed warbler. |
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Disturbance to nesting turtles is an issue in some areas due to activities such as camping, driving on beaches and illegal fishing. |
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Hawksbills have been observed nesting during June and July, and from November to March. |
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Hazards to aircraft include debris, nesting birds, and reduced friction levels due to environmental conditions such as ice, snow, or rain. |
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After the first heavy frost, when acorns were falling, I took a friend into partnership and went nesting. |
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They search for food both near to their nesting sites but also further out to sea. |
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Notwithstanding this, nests are always built close together and ideal nesting sites will not be used if they are some distance from a colony. |
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Northern gannets exhibit many types of aggressive behaviour while they are nesting. |
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Many golden eagles still have white on the tail during their first attempt at nesting. |
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Some vocalization, however, has been recorded, and these normally are centering on the nesting period. |
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Their nesting areas are characterized by the extreme regularity of the nest spacing. |
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The most important nesting ground for northern gannets is the United Kingdom with about two thirds of the world's population. |
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The Atlantic puffin acquired the name much later, possibly because of its similar nesting habits. |
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The current English name was first recorded in 1835 and refers to the former nesting of this species on the Isle of Man. |
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European hedgehogs eat the eggs of nesting seabirds where they have been introduced. |
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The eerie nocturnal cries of nesting shearwaters and petrels has led to associations with the supernatural. |
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They breed in large colonies on coastal cliffs or offshore islands, nesting in crevices among rocks or in burrows in the soil. |
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It lives in crevices, burrows at the base of trees, holes in tree trunks, hollow logs and bird nesting boxes and sometimes enters buildings. |
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They usually indicate desertification or soil erosion, and serve as nesting and burrow sites for animals. |
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However, only a few beaches on both sides of the Atlantic provide nesting sites. |
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In Costa Rica, the beaches of Gandoca and Parismina provide nesting grounds. |
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The beach of Rantau Abang in Terengganu, Malaysia, once had the largest nesting population in the world, hosting 10,000 nests per year. |
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The typical nesting environment includes a dark forested area adjacent to the beach. |
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The eastern Atlantic nesting population was threatened by increased fishing pressures from eastern South American countries. |
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Mayumba National Park in Gabon, Central Africa, was created to protect Africa's most important nesting beach. |
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The last official count of nesting leatherback females in Brazil yielded only seven females. |
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The Kemp's ridley sea turtles were on the brink of extinction in the 1960s with low numbers of 200 nesting individuals. |
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The olive ridley sea turtle is considered to have the most abundant numbers today, estimated as 800,000 nesting individuals. |
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The threats to their survival is loss of nesting habitat, direct harvest of the eggs and adults, and getting caught in fishing gear. |
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Many islands worldwide are known as Turtle Island due to green sea turtles nesting on their beaches. |
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In addition, many countries have laws and ordinances to protect nesting areas. |
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Also, real estate development often causes habitat loss by eliminating nesting beaches. |
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Each population is genetically distinct, with its own set of nesting and feeding grounds within the population's known range. |
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In recent years there are signs of increased nesting in the Cayman Islands. |
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One of the region's most important nesting grounds is in Tortuguero in Costa Rica. |
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In contrast with the sporadic distribution of nesting sites, feeding grounds are much more widely distributed throughout the region. |
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Major Indian Ocean nesting colonies include India, Pakistan, and other coastal countries. |
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The east coast of the African continent hosts a few nesting grounds, including islands in the waters around Madagascar. |
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Indonesia has a few nesting beaches, one in the Meru Betiri National Reserve in East Java. |
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Major nesting sites are common on either side of the Arabian Sea, both in Ash Sharqiyah, Oman, and along the coast of Karachi, Pakistan. |
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Entire generations often migrate between one pair of feeding and nesting areas. |
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Warm nesting sites above 30 degrees Celsius favor the development of females, whereas nesting sites below 30 degrees Celsius produce males. |
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On the nesting beaches, the green sea turtles provide key nutrients for the ecosystem through their hatched egg shells. |
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In the Atlantic, conservation initiatives have centered around Caribbean nesting sites. |
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The Tortuguero National Park was formally established in 1976, in part, to protect that region's nesting grounds. |
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On Ascension Island, which contains some of the most important nesting beaches, an active conservation program has been implemented. |
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The nocturnal nesting behaviour of some seabirds has been interpreted as arising due to pressure from this aerial piracy. |
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Individual nesting sites can be widely spaced, as in an albatross colony, or densely packed as with a murre colony. |
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It has since been eradicated on the island, in order to protect the nesting seabirds. |
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A random assemblage of fish merely using some localised resource such as food or nesting sites is known simply as an aggregation. |
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Occasionally a peregrine falcon disturbs nesting kittiwakes as it swoops by the cliff edges. |
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The birds nest in large colonies Recently, they have started nesting on rooftops and buildings. |
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Within colonies, gull pairs are territorial, defending an area of varying size around the nesting site from others of their species. |
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Species that nest in marshes must construct a nesting platform to keep the nest dry, particularly in species that nest in tidal marshes. |
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Both sexes gather nesting material and build the nest, but the division of labour is not always exactly equal. |
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On these occasions, large numbers of birds travel north or south to wintering or nesting locations. |
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Nest building is sometimes interrupted by another flamingo pair trying to commandeer the nesting site for their own use. |
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For the first six days after the chicks hatch, the adults and chicks stay in the nesting sites. |
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The species is susceptible to bioaccumulation of toxins and to the destruction of nesting trees by logging. |
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Alcatraz Island was given its name by the Spanish because of the number of large numbers of brown pelicans nesting present. |
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They are protected from nesting birds, rutting mammals, and wayward buckshot. |
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When this happens, each family occupies its own passages and nesting chambers. |
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The young are born in a nesting burrow dug by the female, to which she returns once a day for four weeks for them to suckle. |
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During this period, the sett is cleaned and the nesting chamber is filled with bedding. |
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In continental Europe, and elsewhere, nesting colonies sometimes include nests of the purple heron and other heron species. |
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Grey herons have the ability to live in cities where habitats and nesting space are available. |
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In open nesting sites, breeding success tends to be lower, since breeding begins late and the nest can easily be destroyed or damaged by storms. |
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Important resources include basking, feeding, and nesting sites as well as refuges from predators. |
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Lichens are also used by the Northern Flying Squirrel for nesting, food, and a water source during winter. |
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The rocky shores of mainland Antarctica and its offshore islands provide nesting space for over 100 million birds every spring. |
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Albatrosses are colonial, nesting for the most part on remote oceanic islands, often with several species nesting together. |
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The treaty requires these countries to take specific actions to reduce bycatch, pollution and to remove introduced species from nesting islands. |
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The latter treats of their habits, songs, nesting, and other facts pertaining to their life histories. |
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Vladimir Dinets of the University of Tennessee, observed that crocodiles use twigs as bait for birds looking for nesting material. |
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Crocodiles only do this in spring nesting seasons of the birds, when there is high demand for sticks to be used for building nests. |
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This trophic parasitism is thought to have arisen from plesiobiosis, the habitual nesting of two species in very close proximity. |
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Schooling fish probably mix in this fashion on occasion, an association analogous to the plesiobiotic nesting of social insects. |
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Thus polydomy ensues when an entire colony breaks up into several nesting aggregations. |
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Large colonies, with over a million individuals, of crested auklets use the Sea of Okhotsk as a nesting site. |
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The driving of vehicles on beaches can crush nests buried in the sand and such activity should be avoided in nesting areas. |
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The osprey tolerates a wide variety of habitats, nesting in any location near a body of water providing an adequate food supply. |
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If there are no nesting sites available, young ospreys may be forced to delay breeding. |
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In some regions, as in parts of Australia and on the west coast of northern North America, large tree hollows are used for nesting. |
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Many of these nesting birds are encouraged, sometimes gathering media attention and often monitored by cameras. |
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In 2014 eight young were fledged and by 2016 there were four nesting osprey pairs fledging eleven young. |
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She takes all responsibility for nesting and caring for the chicks, as is typical with gamebirds. |
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For me, the highlight of the series was probably filming nesting water rails. |
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The white maggot, which has been nesting in his scalp for six weeks, yesterday stuck out its head for the first time. |
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The estate also cultivates crops, such as white mustard with kale, which encourage bees, insects and provide cover for ground nesting birds. |
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There are moor hens nesting here, and we've had sightings of mallards, a Canada goose, herons and willow warblers. |
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His service project, completed for Oregon Fish and Wildlife, involved building 12 wood duck nesting boxes to replace old ones. |
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Sandwich, common and Arctic terns all had a fantastic nesting season last year, with a good survival rate of the chicks. |
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The beach is home to nesting Arctic terns, who are fiercely protective of their young. |
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Over the past several weeks, a Killdeer Plover was seen nesting at the construction project site for Robertet Flavors Inc. |
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Redpoll season arrives in the Northeast, and brown pelican nesting season commences along the Gulf of Mexico. |
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The land is visited frequently by feeding ducks, including green-winged teal, and is a popular nesting area for redwing black birds. |
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It is believed there are 116 nesting kittiwake pairs that use the bridge, with more birds on the Baltic. |
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Last February, landscapers discovered this refrigerator-size bee colony nesting in an oleander bush in Phoenix, Arizona. |
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Unnaturally high water levels soak sparrow nests, make eggs vulnerable to rice rats and snakes, or otherwise halt nesting. |
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Another little gem to be found alongside our Lakeside Hide is a nesting little ringed plover. |
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A pair of little ringed plovers at RSPB Conwy is raising hopes of nesting this year for the first time in years. |
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It gives us the chance to go where a nesting chaffinch goes, or a rootling mole. |
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The loss of essential patchy-sand habitat that common and roseate terns in the area require for nesting has hurt their populations. |
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Whether riding or walking, you'll pass historic forts, coraltinted beaches, and bird sanctuaries, where you might see nesting longtails. |
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An eagle-eyed foreman was first to spot the exotic birds flying among the site's colony of nesting sand martins. |
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Our observations indicate that cavity nesting is a distinct variation in behavioral form that can arise in Black-billed Magpie populations. |
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We provide the first recorded case of Black-billed Magpies nesting in a fully enclosed, pre-formed cavity. |
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These are nesting burrows of the Manx shearwater, but unless you are here around dusk it's unlikely you will see any activity. |
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Manx shearwaters flew over the waves, waiting for darkness before returning to their nesting burrows on the island. |
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Chronology of nesting events in western and semipalmated sandpipers near the Arctic Circle. |
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This project advances the Conservation Framework s goal of stabilizing Gulf Coast populations of beach nesting shorebirds and seabirds. |
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In this paper, we report the first occurrence of sibling pairing and nesting in the wild for Canada Geese. |
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Along the Columbia River are numerous nesting sites set aside for Canadian geese. |
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The nesting sites of Montagu's harriers are a close-kept secret to prevent theft by egg collectors. |
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The structures will resemble chimneys and will make suitable nesting habitats for the Chimney Swift. |
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Hands-on educational programs and the creation of nesting habitat for nighthawks and chimney swifts at Title 1 schools in Indianapolis. |
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The alleged transportation of its eggs or young by the Chuck-will's-widow.Incubation and nesting behavior of the Chuck-will's-widow. |
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Use your drill driver and 45mm screws, fix one side of your nesting box to the base and then fix both to the back section. |
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Because this bird adapts to a nesting box he is more accessible than one might think. |
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In 2000 the RSPB began providing wooden house-shaped nesting boxes in terraces for the roseate terns. |
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Three years ago, 30 nesting boxes were put up by volunteers from BASC and the North Wales Wildlife Trust. |
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We have a long tradition of designing and creating nesting boxes for British birds and mammals. |
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You may also want to enhance your garden's biodiversity by adding nesting boxes too. |
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The Common Goldeneye duck and the role of nesting boxes in its management in north-central Minnesota. |
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A campaign to provide nesting boxes for birds is set to receive a local boost. |
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Diurnal and nocturnal ranging behaviour of Stone Curlews Burhinus oedicnemus nesting in river habitat. |
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This has reduced the population of trumpeter swans, which rely on the bodies of water not just for nesting but also as a refuge from predators. |
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We also compare our findings with previous nesting information for Myiotheretes and other related tyrannid species. |
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