How To Use Waterbird In A Sentence
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However, the mozzie carrier, called Culex species, only brings the virus to us, the actual host is pigs and some waterbirds.
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This 2,951-acre facility also provides safe haven for some 50 species of waterbirds, shorebirds, and seabirds.
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Three lakes are also found in this park, providing habitat for a variety of waterbirds as well as antelope species with a preference for marshy or open, grassy habitat such as sitatunga, oribi (Ourebia ourebi), waterbuck, tsessebe, and lechwe (Kobus leche).
Angolan Miombo woodlands
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Maggots feeding on the carcasses could pick up the toxin and be eaten by untargeted waterbirds, especially waterfowl, causing additional deaths and creating an outbreak of avian botulism.
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Apparently large numbers of ducks, coots and other waterbirds winter at the lake.
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Fish and crustaceans enter this system, attracting native waterbirds, shorebirds, and seabirds, which regularly forage along the ditch's riparian banks.
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The riparian grasslands are the best tiger habitat in India, and also well suited to the unique wild buffalo herds, gaur and barasingha, elephants and waterbirds.
Manas National Park, India
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It provides winter habitat for 15 million waterbirds, more than 400,000 geese, and 5 million ducks (one-fifth of the continental population).
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There were birds everywhere, waterbirds and shorebirds in the pools, landbirds flying by or sitting on fences.
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Oil causes waterbirds' feathers to clump together, which exposes the animals to cold temperatures.
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Mangroves have been converted to shrimp aquacultural ponds, while intertidal mudflats have been extensively afforested with mangrove or intensely fished by lines of stack nets, which severely impacts their value as feeding habitat for migratory waterbirds and other species.
Biological diversity in Indo-Burma
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When alewives return to the rivers, they provide abundant forage for resident and sea-run fish, waterbirds, and raptors.
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Young waterbirds are taken in hard weather by full-grown birds.
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In Hawaii, cats and dogs as well as the imported mongoose have seriously affected nesting waterbirds and two seabirds - the dark-rumped petrel and Newell's shearwater, according to the National Biological Service.
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Other waterbirds found on Lake Eyasi include yellowbilled stork Mycteria ibis, African spoonbill Platalea alba, avocet Recurvirostra avosetta and greyheaded gull Larus cirrocephalus.
Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
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Most of the postcranial elements belong to continental waterbirds, including pelicans, anhingas, herons, storks, ducks, and rails.
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My lawn has always been weedy, but this spring, it is especially bad: fewer blades of fescue, more eruptions of splotchy, leafy plants that look like they belong in those bags of pre-washed salad you get at the supermarket -- plus one massive dandelion that I expect to climb any day now in search of a waterbird capable of squirting precious metals out of its oviduct.
Weeding lawn myth from reality
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In Hawaii, cats and dogs as well as the imported mongoose have seriously affected nesting waterbirds and two seabirds - the dark-rumped petrel and Newell's shearwater, according to the National Biological Service.
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Among some ground-nesting waterbirds, such as gulls and plovers, research has shown that speckling aids egg camouflage.
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I saw hundreds of Australian waterbirds, including Freckled Ducks (our most endangered duck) in large numbers.
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In monographic detail, the book covers the terrestrial birds in the Quaternary of New Zealand, treating moa, kiwi, waterbirds, raptors, rails, shorebirds, and the remaining land birds in turn.
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However, there were slight trends for waterbirds, birds that breed at Delta Marsh, and short-distance migrants to arrive earlier over time.
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Three lakes are also found in this park, providing habitat for a variety of waterbirds as well as antelope species with a preference for marshy or open, grassy habitat such as sitatunga, oribi (Ourebia ourebi), waterbuck, tsessebe, and lechwe (Kobus leche).
Angolan Miombo woodlands
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Three lakes are also found in this park, providing habitat for a variety of waterbirds as well as antelope species with a preference for marshy or open, grassy habitat such as sitatunga, oribi (Ourebia ourebi), waterbuck, tsessebe, and lechwe (Kobus leche).
Angolan Miombo woodlands
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The scrubland (cotos) and heathland ecotone (vera) are the richest habitats for most animals apart from waterbirds.
Doñana National Park, Spain
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Other waterbirds found on Lake Eyasi include yellowbilled stork Mycteria ibis, African spoonbill Platalea alba, avocet Recurvirostra avosetta and greyheaded gull Larus cirrocephalus.
Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
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Most of the postcranial elements belong to continental waterbirds, including pelicans, anhingas, herons, storks, ducks, and rails.
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Why are grebes, among all the waterbirds, so difficult to maintain in captive environments?
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The 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo, Philippines, caused circumpolar cooling, delayed snowmelt, and resulted in global reductions in productivity of arctic waterbirds in 1992.
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These wetlands are important breeding and migratory stopover sites for many North American waterbirds, including more than 30 species of shorebirds, 9 of which regularly breed in the region.
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Most of the postcranial elements belong to continental waterbirds, including pelicans, anhingas, herons, storks, ducks, and rails.
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Among some ground-nesting waterbirds, such as gulls and plovers, research has shown that speckling aids egg camouflage.
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These include common waterbirds such as bitterns (cinnamon bittern [Ixobrychus cinnamomeus]), herons and egrets (Indian pond-heron [Ardeola grayii], Pacific reef-egret [Egretta sacra]), storks (woolly-necked stork [Ciconia episcopus]), ibis (black-headed ibis [Threskiornis melanocephalus]), ducks (spot-billed duck [Anas poecilorhyncha]), jacanas (pheasant-tailed jacana [Hydrophasianus chirurgus]), pratinoles (oriental pratincole [Glareola maldivarum]), and terns (black-bellied tern [Sterna acuticauda]).
Irrawaddy freshwater swamp forests
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A pair of coots, some moorhens, a little grebe and a single Little Egret rounded out the waterbirds.
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Waterbirds such as the kingfisher suffered very high mortality rates when rivers and streams froze over, while small insect-eating species such as the treecreeper, goldcrest, wren and long-tailed tit died because of widespread "glazed frosts", a layer of ice over the branches of trees which covered up their food supply.
Weatherwatch: 'War winter' took it's toll on Britain's birds
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A pair of coots, some moorhens, a little grebe and a single Little Egret rounded out the waterbirds.
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Among some ground-nesting waterbirds, such as gulls and plovers, research has shown that speckling aids egg camouflage.
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The pond is usually dominated by the usual waterbirds: Mute Swan, Canada Goose, Mallard, American Black Duck, and Double-crested Cormorant.
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Among some ground-nesting waterbirds, such as gulls and plovers, research has shown that speckling aids egg camouflage.
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‘The drainage of the marshlands destroyed the wintering and staging habitat of several million migratory waterbirds,’ he said.
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‘The drainage of the marshlands destroyed the wintering and staging habitat of several million migratory waterbirds,’ Evans said.
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Major seabird and waterbird colonies include those of red-footed booby Sula sula (3,000-4,000 individuals) on Half Moon Caye, brown booby Sula leucogaster on Man O'War Caye, and common noddy Anous stolidus on Glover's Reef.
Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System, Belize
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Now common loons, one of five loon species, are helping scientists better understand the impact of environmental mercury contamination on waterbirds, fish, and other aquatic wildlife.
