Sentence examples for nesting cycle from inspiring English sources

It is more properly a postbreeding migration, the result of a successfully completed nesting cycle in the brief northern summer.

Gonshaw must have reached the nest in mid-April, well into the bird's nesting cycle; it appeared that he had removed live chicks.

Part of this failure to produce young is due, of course, to the death of one or both of a pair of robins before the nesting cycle is completed.

Except for Lepidochelys, which has a nesting cycle of 1 3 years, females nest only every third or fourth year; however, they often nest multiple times during a nesting season.

Temporal factors (stage of nesting cycle, seasonal effects, annual variation) had the most effect on nesting success; landscape factors had little influence on nesting success.

"It may have lost a brood of its own nearby and, still full of hormones associated with that stage of the nesting cycle, decided to brood the nearest available alternative".

The erosion affected two nesting cycles for the Olive Ridley turtle, destroying about 40 million eggs.

The breeding season continued until the end of September, and we witnessed up to four nesting cycles; i.e., pairs of R. b. brachyurus attempted to produce up to four successive broods.

As a consequence, the probability of remaining viable over the entire nest cycle varies little if at all among brood mates (Figure 4).

In other words, the maternal effect (ovulation order) that maximizes post-hatching viability is the very maternal effect that minimizes pre-hatching viability, resulting in a probability of remaining viable through the entire nest cycle that is spread relatively evenly across the serially produced, simultaneously dependent propagules.

Accordingly we formulate and Analogously additional activity breaks can be inserted into the nest cycle.