Sentence examples for nesting burrows from inspiring English sources

These nocturnal birds arrive in the middle of the night to return to nesting burrows in old stone walls on the island.

The fire destroyed the vegetation and several nesting burrows.

In the 1950s and 1960s, natives trapped this ground roller and dug out its nesting burrows.

Each pair digs one to six nesting burrows during the breeding season; the extra burrows are known as speculative burrows.

Its habitat bridges rivers and the riparian zone for both a food supply of prey species, and banks where it can dig resting and nesting burrows.

Breeding adult great shearwaters were accessed from nesting burrows on Inaccessible Island (37°18'S, 12°40'W; Fig. 1), which supports an estimated breeding population of ∼2 million pairs [18].

When behavioral ecologists Andrew Young and Tim Clutton-Brock of the University of Cambridge, U.K., saw dominant females evicting subordinates from the nesting burrow just before the dominant meerkats gave birth, they suspected the underlings may pose a threat to newborns.

These small seabirds make one of the longest migrations of any bird 10,000 kilometres but return to the exact nesting burrow on Skokholm year after year.

The short-beaked echidna incubates its egg in a functional incubatorium pouch on the abdomen (Griffiths et al. 1969), whereas those of the platypus are probably held between the curled tail and the abdomen of the female in the nesting burrow (Burrell 1927; Griffiths 1978).

They dig tiny nest burrows in sandbanks and feed on insects, caught on the wing.

We paused again to watch digger wasps preparing their nest burrows in the grey sand along the path side.