Sentence examples for birth grounds from inspiring English sources

Born in gravel-bed nests from central California to Alaska, the fish migrate downstream, spend one to four years in the open Pacific, and then return to their birth grounds to spawn and die.

It is a birth ground for something that is becoming.

The fish return to their hatchery birthing grounds to spawn and are stripped of their eggs, which are used to replenish the fish population.

They had spent three gruelling months zigzagging across Mexico, following the bats as they hopscotched from cave to cave on the thousand-mile journey from their roosts, in central and southern Mexico, to their birthing grounds, in the Sonoran Desert, near the Arizona border.

Both sides agree that what was bizarre animal behaviour a decade ago has now become a real hazard for threatened southern right whales in one of their prime birthing grounds, turning whale-watching from a magical experience to something from a horror movie.

The pattern might be related to the 2-year reproductive cycle, Chapman says, with females heading out to breeding grounds to find mates or to birthing grounds to give birth.

Watch this Robert Redford video about polar bear birthing grounds threatened by Arctic drilling.

Their aim was to educate children about the annual December-April migration of the whales from their feeding grounds in Alaska to their birthing grounds off Baja California.

Nunavut Tourism promotes Nunavut as having a number of short and long hikes available to tourists, with camping possible in the middle of "caribou birthing grounds... [and at Whale Cove,] at the river, teeming with chirping white whales".

The depths of the ocean here are unsafe for divers to safely investigate, but we hope to employ manned submersibles to observe the sharks in their deep water birthing grounds.

As Princess Johnson put it recently: "A birthing ground is no place for a battlefield.