wintering in English
birds wintering in the Caribbean
Use "wintering" in a sentence
1. Increasing numbers of retired people are wintering abroad.
2. There, in the far distance, were wintering geese.
3. Continue aerial population surveys on nesting and wintering areas.
4. Breeding on tundra and moors, wintering mainly on coasts.
5. The UK holds internationally important wintering numbers of Cormorant.
6. Most Barrages would lead to a reduction in wintering bird populations
7. Dongtan Nature Reserve is the largest natural wintering site in the world.
8. Wintering areas were located and mapped during aerial surveys in 1975 and 1987–1989.
9. Maynard Bolster, wintering from Kalispell, Mont., is in his customary seat, dutifully keeping score.
10. Between October and March, the Buntal River becomes an important wintering ground for bird migration.
11. Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) wintering in Hawaiian waters engage in strenuous aggression toward con-specifics.
12. In such instances, the over-wintering site is typically accessed by all terrain vehicle or snowmobile.
13. Many of the birds were wintering on France’s shores after migrating from England, Ireland, and Scotland.
14. Most of our Blackberries are summer bearing, which carry one crop of berries on the over-wintering canes during the summer months
15. Antonyms for Aestivating include hibernating, sleeping, wintering, overwintering, lying dormant, vegetating, hiding, immuring, holing up and lying torpid
16. The Bobolink encounters challenges on its breeding grounds as well as during migration and on its wintering grounds
17. As compared to wintering programs, Backgrounding emphasizes a faster rate of gain, with relatively more grain and less roughage.
18. The second Bittern project, from 2002–2006, was developing a wider network of reedbeds suitable for breeding or wintering Bitterns.
19. 1 Rare species like the roseate tern, which breeds on our rocky islands, are severely threatened in their wintering areas.
20. The highest Coot breeding density exists in the nothern Prairie Pothole Region and wintering numbers are highest in the southern Mississippi Flyway
21. Wintering male Bobolinks in central South America have a plumage much more modest in appearance and similar to that of the female.
22. The white stork is a long-distance migrant, wintering in Africa from tropical Sub-Saharan Africa to as far south as South Africa, or on the Indian subcontinent.
23. "As regards wintering, the place was certainly `not Commodious,' but as regards shelter from some winds (including Northwest), it was a good anchorage" (Code of Hammurabi, XXIII, 639).
24. The most migratory of the Accentors, moving from its breeding territories in Russia to its wintering grounds in northern China and the upper Korean peninsula
25. In the western United States, American Avocets may migrate south for the winter, or they may migrate west from inland breeding sites to coastal wintering sites
26. These loci have been used in parent-age determination, genetic diversity and population structure, population introgression , as genetic marker gestation length and wintering survival et al.
27. At three of the breeding sites, males showed significantly higher δ2Hf values compared to females, suggesting possible allopatric separation (with an altitudinal component) on the wintering grounds.
28. 300 Migration and Wintering Areas of American Bitterns (Botaurus lentiginosus) that Summer in Central North America as Determined by Satellite and Radio Telemetry, 1998-2003 GARY HUSCHLE1,*, JOHN E
29. Since Florida is an important wintering area for migrating birds, the Bobcat's winter diet reflects this abundance and includes ground-dwelling birds such as towhees, robins, catbirds and thrashers.
30. "As regards wintering, the place was certainly `not Commodious,' but as regards shelter from some winds (including Northwest), it was a good anchorage" (Code of Hammurabi, XXIII, 639).
31. The abundance and distribution of acorns and beechnuts in regions further south are believed to influence the start of migration and the selection of wintering sites (Smith and Scarlett 1987).
32. After Paolo's death Dec 2, 1962, the widowed Queen Italia Murru retired to Porto San Paolo on Sardinia, wintering at Capo Testa, until her death in 2003 at age 95.
33. Aestivation (ĕs`təvā'shən): see hibernationhibernation [Lat.,= wintering], practice, among certain animals, of spending part of the cold season in a more or less dormant state, apparently as protection from cold when normal body temperature cannot be maintained and food is scarce
34. Within ten years those same reaches of the river were to be transformed from a virtual avian void to a refuge for many species of water birds, including a wintering population of up to 10,000 wildfowl and 12,000 waders.”
35. 2 days ago · "An Antarctic wintering-over station is a unique environment as a small, isolated society facing the extreme margins of survival," said first author Tomoko Kuwabara, professor emeritus in the
36. In this paper, we present a natural experiment by comparing the body mass variation of resident and transient Siskins between a period of the wintering season without avian predators and another period with a Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) that was hunting regularly.
37. The Canvasback population is continuing to rebound from the low levels experienced in the late 1980s and early 1990s caused by loss of breeding and wintering habitat and lead poisoning due to ingestion of spent shot while feeding (this threat should gradually disappear with the lead shot ban).
38. If management actions are not able to reduce the population growth rate λ to less than 1.0, the population will continue to grow until it is limited by external factors, such as reduced availability of food on wintering or staging areas, loss of habitat on the breeding areas, or large-scale disease outbreaks.