Sentence examples for outside the breeding from inspiring English sources

Pairs or family groups are usually encountered but outside the breeding season they often form flocks of 20 or more.

Yet despite their northerly range, outside the breeding season turnstones are one of the world's most widespread birds, travelling along all the major coastal flyways as far south as Patagonia, South Africa, Tasmania and New Zealand.

However, outside the breeding season its plumage is drab and less distinctive.

Introduction of resistance alleles from standing variation outside the breeding population is the primary mechanism to increase disease resistance (Fetch et al. 2003).

It breeds from September to December and outside the breeding season may congregate in large flocks, often roosting in reedbeds.

It has colonised southern Israel, where it breeds on houses, in the 1970s, and large numbers may occur outside the breeding season in Saudi Arabia and Oman.

The guans are rather silent outside the breeding season.

Outside the breeding season, sheathbills eat intertidal creatures and algae.

Outside the breeding season they are pelagic (that is, living on the open ocean).

You're more likely to see them outside the breeding season in groups, or coveys, of up to 15 birds.

Small flocks form outside the breeding season, sometimes with at least one Cuban Vireo (Vireo gundlachii) in attendance.