Sentence examples for early breeding from inspiring English sources

While most species will still be setting up breeding territories or finding a mate, early breeding species such as blackbird, collared dove and robin, may already have eggs or young chicks.

Whereas some spring crops still provided relative short and sparse field layers when early breeding pairs cared for their nestlings, autumn crops typically had reached dense and tall field layers at that time.

Young Parsees are given lectures about the benefits of early breeding.

Locally, the very early breeding spring peeper and the gray tree frog are abundant examples of this success.

"They even write about this — they say, 'We got on the wrong side of the locals.' " In Iraq, the government is led by the Shiite majority, while a Sunni minority has been Al Qaeda's early breeding ground.

The Cornell golf course, named for its designer, is one of several examples of Jones's work in the Finger Lakes region of New York, an early breeding ground of Jones's work close to his boyhood home, East Rochester.

The fact that they didn't seems to rule out faster growth as the cause of the shift toward earlier breeding.

Also, these individuals may arrive at their destinations earlier or in better condition than conspecifics, which could confer fitness benefits in terms of larger clutches, better territories, mates, and earlier breeding [7], [25], [27].

Warmer spring temperatures and earlier snowmelt lead to earlier breeding for both species, which subsequently affects productivity through greater opportunities for re-nesting [ 13].

In Wilson and Martin [ 13] we showed that warmer temperatures lead to earlier breeding, larger clutches and a greater number of young hatched.

Earlier breeding onset for older males was also associated with a higher frequency of second broods, as 22 of 38 older males initiated a second nesting attempt, but only 2 of 18 young males did so (χ12 = 10.9, p < 0.001).