Sentence examples for nesting shorebirds from inspiring English sources

At certain times each year, for example, the Marines are able to use only a fraction of the beachfront at Camp Pendleton, Calif., to practice amphibious landings out of concern for nesting shorebirds like the coastal California gnatcatcher.

Champagne Island rises and falls and shifts with the tides and the storms, so unstable and ephemeral that it officially belongs to none of the three municipalities at whose juncture it lies — North Wildwood, Stone Harbor, Middle Township — a geographical quirk that has long made it an attractive destination to other migratory species besides nesting shorebirds.

These habitats support a wide range of animals, from tens of thousands of nesting shorebirds, seabirds, and pelicans to endangered sea turtles who come by the hundreds to lay their eggs each year on these protected beaches.

There is no overnight access (meaning, plan day trips only), but visitors can surf cast (fish from or near the shoreline), watch thousands of beach-nesting shorebirds, or be lulled into an afternoon nap by the crashing Atlantic waves.

At the beach on the bay side near the island's north end, Mr. Burden cautions to stay below the wrack, the dead vegetation at the high tide line; above the tide line are the nests of shorebirds and perhaps loggerhead turtles.

Wet sedge meadows often associated with lake margins, estuaries, and seacoasts are favoured nesting habitats of shorebirds and waterfowl.

In this study, we examined the relationships between liming history, soil pH and patterns of foraging by Northern Lapwing, Vanellus vanellus, chicks in order to test the potential utility of soil amendment as a conservation intervention for shorebirds nesting in agricultural grasslands.

Today some conservationists worry about these gulls' depredations on the nests of other shorebirds.

We expect that beach area during shorebird nesting and summering can serve as a measure of the nesting habitat extent for some birds.

Most members of the Scolopacidae (the largest family of the shorebirds) construct nests on the ground, but several species use the abandoned nests of other birds, in trees or on the ground.

Atlantic piping plover : These sparrow-sized shorebirds that nest on East Coast shores and spend their winters on Gulf and Caribbean beaches were protected as endangered in 1985 after hunting, trade in feathers for women's hats, and habitat loss had decimated their populations.