Sentence examples for as eiders from inspiring English sources

If we assume that murres are eaten three times as often as eiders (as could be indicated by the hunting figures), the lead intake from "an average bird meal" will be 0.25 × 1,220 μg lead + 0.75 × 146 μg lead = 425 μg lead.

The single common eider as well as one of the five common scoters revealed a contamination of 5% of their plumage.

2016 budget co-rapporteurs Mr José Manuel Fernandes (EPP, PT) and Mr Gérard Deprez (ALDE, BE), as well as Ms Eider Gardiazábal Rubial (S&D, ES) in charge of the 2015 budget, call on member states to use the amount to match their promises and provide the money desperately needed to handle the refugee crisis.

The observed decrease in IgY over the course of incubation has previously been reported in common eiders (Bourgeon et al. 2006) as well as in other species (Hõrak et al. 1998) in the absence of disease outbreaks.

Using female common eiders (Somateria mollissima) as a model, it was earlier shown that acquired immunity is negatively affected during the incubation fast, while its activation has a negative impact on females' fitness.

Eiders have similar ΔHg as killifish but much higher δHg, suggesting that there is an internal fractionation of δHg in birds.

This is home to wildlife found nowhere else in the US: polar bears, seals, bowhead whales and numerous fish, plus birds, such as the king eider and gyrfalcon.

Because it is set on the eastern shores of the Atlantic Ocean, Gigha attracts a wide variety of sea birds such as guillemot and eider, which breed on Eilean Garbh.

Only AR and HS of the populations of Lake Constance, as well as HS of Ems and AR of Eider populations exhibited overlap with the CI, and thus were regarded as not significantly different (Fig. 1).

Jeff Miller, a conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity, said several regional bird populations were indeed affected by ingesting lead ammunition or fishing tackle, including the endangered Mississippi sandhilll crane; eiders in Alaska, which are listed as threatened by the Interior Department; and trumpeter swans, considered species of concern in the Rocky Mountain West.

Red-crested pochards (Netta rufina; Gay et al. 2004), common eiders (Somateria mollissima; Tiedemann et al. 2004), sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis), as well as the yellow warbler (Dendroica petechia; Gibbs et al. 2000) have patterns of genetic structure consistent with male-mediated gene flow (i.e., highly structured mtDNA and weakly structured nuclear DNA).