Sentence examples for birds mortality from inspiring English sources

The Barn Owl Trust said that the bodies of 91% of the birds that had been found dead had contained rat poison, which has heightened fears that the use of rodenticides is having a serious impact on the birds' mortality rates.

As with most small birds, mortality in the first year of life is high, but adults aged three to four years are regularly recorded, and the record is more than seven years.

In the Old World, birds mortality has been sporadically associated with WNV infection [ 4], as in Israel [ 5], Hungary [ 6], and Italy [ 7].

Passive surveillance on birds mortality is carried out throughout the country, and target species include Blackbird (Turdus merula), Starling (Sturnus vulgaris), Jackdaw (Corvus monedula), Magpie (Pica pica), Jay (Garrulus glandarius), Hooded Crow (Corvus corone cornix), and Collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto).

The Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds says that a motorway would cause a tenfold increase in bird mortality.

The Sierra Club, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Audubon Society all recognize bird mortality as a significant problem with wind generators.

Electrocution on power lines is one the most important human-related causes of bird mortality worldwide, especially for raptors.

Bird mortality due to collisions with wind turbines is one of the major ecological concerns associated with wind farms.

A frequent assumption of wind-farm assessment studies is that bird distribution and abundance and bird mortality through collision with turbines are closely related.

Wind-farms have negative impacts on the environment, mainly through habitat destruction and bird mortality, making it urgent to design predictive tools to use in landscape planning.

IN the draft environmental statement, the corporation said the "number of collisions and resulting bird mortality is expected to be insignificant when compared to the total number of birds migrating along the Atlantic flyway".