| Currently there are 23 ongoing ACF projects involving experimentation with mice, rats, hamsters, rabbits, ducks, sandpipers, and zebra finches. |
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| With sandpipers piping on the beach at Monterrey, we find Alison and Elliot at sunset over the Pacific. |
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| Purple sandpipers were not observed during the spring surveys, and those present in August were likely passage migrants from farther north. |
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| Here tens of thousands of semi-palmated sandpipers and other shorebirds feed on the rich salt marshes that dominate the landscape. |
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| Other mowed strips, such as along roadways, are used by upland sandpipers and other birds for feeding. |
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| On a hot May morning, I plodded along the forest track, waving at mosquitoes and hoping that the neurotic wood sandpipers would calm down. |
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| The sandpipers, surfbirds, and turnstones fly in separate flocks with each flock moving as one. |
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| Traditionally, the five species of peeps in North America are the Baird's, Least, Semipalmated, Western, and White-rumped sandpipers. |
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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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| Seagulls keened and skied, pelicans bobbed on the swells, sandpipers left sharp three-toed tracks along the tidal margin. |
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| Overall foraging niches of avocets and dowitchers were segregated from each other and from Least and Western sandpipers. |
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| International birders include four Eurasian sandpipers, called stints, on the peeps roster. |
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| Here breeding grounds are shared with broad-billed sandpipers and sometimes red-necked phalaropes. |
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| Herons, Egyptian geese, stilts and sandpipers are already frequent visitors to the site. |
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| This can be difficult to see and is not diagnostic, as other sandpipers also have these webbed feet. |
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| This stretch of the river is usually good for sandpipers and orioles, yet all we could come up with was a lone Least Sandpiper. |
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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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| Currently, visitors to the flats are likely to see sandpipers, avocets, oystercatchers, godwits, dowitchers, plovers and other shorebirds on their way south. |
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| Often clouds of black skimmers, yellowlegs and a half-dozen species of sandpipers would wheel over our duck decoys, occasionally alighting right in the middle of them. |
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| In the migratory season, waterfowl of different varieties, thousands of sandpipers and shanks and varieties of ducks flock to this feeding ground. |
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| The most common birds found in association with mudflats are dowitchers, plovers, sandpipers, herons, and gulls. |
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| In New York, for example, the number of upland sandpipers declined by an estimated 84 percent from 1966 to 1995, according to the North American Breeding Bird Survey. |
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| In spring and autumn dozens of thousands of geese, ducks, cranes, ruffs and sandpipers rest here en route south. |
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| In the natural world, peeps are sandpipers, pure and simple. |
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| Each spring, more than two million sandpipers feed on the flats as they migrate northward. |
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| Sea ducks and sandpipers can't spread the word about how much their survival depends on wetlands, but you can! |
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| Large flocks of sandpipers are a spectacular sight as they change direction together during flight, looking much like an aerial school of fish. |
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| Like most small sandpipers in Canada, Semipalmated Sandpipers are monogamous, each bird having only one mate at a time. |
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| In North America, most species of shorebirds, especially the sandpipers and allied species, breed in the Arctic or sub-Arctic. |
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| In autumn the mudflats host migrant shorebirds including plovers, yellowlegs, and sandpipers, and warblers are common in woodlands at both ends of the pond. |
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| You can see red knots, dunlins, and sandpipers as they rest and forage for food on the beaches, using the untouched island habitat as a safe haven during their journey south. |
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| The sky is busy with gulls and the exposed sands and stones are playgrounds to coastal waders, including oyster catchers, cormorants and sandpipers. |
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| When we arrived, it was past the peak of the fall shorebird migration, but there were still hundreds of sandpipers and plovers resting and feeding on Monomoy. |
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| Under the shade of a banyan, we train our binoculars on the far side of the lake and Little grebes, Grey herons, godwits, coots and sandpipers resolve themselves into view. |
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| Wagtails and sandpipers squeak and dart amongst the thick glossy hyacinth leaves, and at the muddy edges, bluethroats scuttle this way and that like mice. |
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| Mr Evans fears for the purple sandpipers which migrate to Amble, particularly the smaller variety from Norway, which would be the first to feel the pinch if food supplies ran thin. |
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| Chronology of nesting events in western and semipalmated sandpipers near the Arctic Circle. |
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| They comprise a diverse group of species, including the plovers, oystercatchers, avocets, stilts, turnstones, sandpipers, yellowlegs, snipes, godwits, curlews, and phalaropes. |
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| This amphipod is the major source of food for the hundreds of thousands of sandpipers and plovers that use the Fundy mudflats as their staging area before migrating to South America. |
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| Among the wildlife already recorded on the site are noctule bats, small copper butterflies, kingfishers, common and green sandpipers, redshanks and black-tailed godwits. |
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| Many species of waders, such as gray plovers, the sanderling, and several kinds of sandpipers, migrate to the tundra and breed there in the summer, feeding principally on mosquitoes in the wet areas. |
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| Green and common sandpipers are currently feeding around the pools, often joined by dunlins, little ringed plovers and lapwings. |
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| Typical land and freshwater birds of the Arctic Zone are the redpoll, Lapland longspur, snowbird, wheatear, pipit, certain plovers and sandpipers, loons, rock ptarmigans, ducks, and geese. |
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| The original centers of abundance of upland sandpipers were the shortgrass and mixed-grass prairies of the Great Plains. |
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| Each summer, over two million shorebirds feed on the extensive mudflats and mud shrimp of the Bay of Fundy, including up to 75 per cent of the world population of semipalmated sandpipers. |
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| Pectoral sandpipers breed in North America and Siberia but are extending their range. |
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| The more common-type waders are black-tailed godwit and four or five different types of sandpipers, redshanks and greenshanks. |
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| Varieties of sandpipers, redshanks, ruffs, stints and gulls come all the way from Europe and Siberia usually arrive in the city in late September. |
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| Spotted redshanks were at Porthmadog's Llyn Bach and Morfa Madryn near Llanfairfechan, and two pectoral sandpipers were on the border at RSPB Inner Marsh Farm. |
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| A great northern diver was in Foryd Bay, up to three firecrests remain at RSPB Conwy and a record 23 purple sandpipers roosted at Rhos Point on Christmas Day. |
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| Pectoral sandpipers should spend the winter in South America, but I don't think the Marshside bird will be taking on the Atlantic again this year. |
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