Sentence examples for chick survival from inspiring English sources

Excluding predators through the use of electric fences has led to improvements in nest and chick survival in other habitats.

Of course, there is the possibility that chick survival may decrease if the offspring is unrelated to one or both of its parents.

In mid-February, Harvey estimated 2,500 pelican nests on Anacapa, but during the first week in April she found high nest abandonment and fairly low chick survival.

Inadequate brood habitat may have influenced chick survival and the skewed adult sex ratio may be a result of habitat fragmentation.

This has caused "disastrous chick survival rates", it says, with nesting kittiwake numbers plummeting by 87% since 2000 on the Orkney and Shetland Islands, and by 96% on the Hebridean island of St Kilda.

Current factors believed to endanger the population include rising air temperatures, which may lower chick survival rates, and warming oceans that mean birds must travel further to find food.

And you have to wonder — we never do learn the chicks' survival rate — if the filmmakers really stuck with one family.

I want to nomiate a book that I think is worth recognition: Dalel Khalil's "From Veils to Thongs: An Arab Chicks Survival Guide to Balancing One's Ethnic Identify in America".

More chicks survived to 5 months in broods led by the dominant males (75%) than in broods led by subordinate males (17%), but overall survival rates were higher than in broods of solitary males (22%) (Codenotti and Alvarez 1997).

Antarctic silverfish (Pleuragramma antarcticum), another component of Adélie penguin's diet, have declined coincident with WAP climate changes14,15 and could also influence penguin demographics such as breeding success, chick mass and survival.

Chick growth and survival rates may be affected by the contaminant levels found in the eggs, but the eggs should be safe for human consumption if they are eaten in small quantities.