Sentence examples for nesting females from inspiring English sources

Nesting females will lay eggs three to five times a season, usually at two-week intervals.

With leatherback turtles, for example, tens of thousands of nesting females remain in the northwest Atlantic, yet their numbers in the eastern Pacific have dwindled by 90 percent in the last 20 years.

Pastoralism and houbara conservation may therefore be compatible, although impacts on nesting females require investigation.

All recaptured adults (n = 16 males, 38 nesting females and 30 adult females in-water) were in Cuban waters.

That's when most nesting females would have been in their first year of life, the researchers say.

Our analyses indicate that the statistical power of surveys for hawksbills is influenced by the timing and duration of the survey because of their effect on the proportion of the annual number of nesting females that the survey captures.

Patient observers might spot a nesting female in action, scraping the hairs off a leaf and carrying them back to the nest in a ball beneath her abdomen.

He believes the nesting female and six chicks travelled more than 250 miles (402 km), before being found.

The results can be used to aid the design of new wetland sites to take into account the needs of nesting female bittern.

The volunteers also try to rescue a nesting female from under a chained-up beach chair.

A nesting female also has a brood patch on the bare skin of the belly.