Sentence examples for principal breeding from inspiring English sources

South Georgia is a principal breeding site for the king penguin, a species nearly as tall as the emperor and even more dramatically plumaged.

Rum has red deer and an assortment of rare birds, including merlins and white-tailed sea eagles, and it is a principal breeding ground for the Manx shearwater, a seabird with a distinctly eerie call.

Although the main Hawaiian islands are the principal breeding ground for North Pacific humpbacks, serving as a home to more than 8,000 whales from December to May, it was previously unknown that they also bred farther west in the archipelago.

Rice fields remained to be the principal breeding sites.

An. arabiensis remained as the potential vector of the urban area of Antananarivo, rice fields are their principal breeding sites.

Waterfowl monitoring includes surveys (aerial and ground transects) conducted in the principal breeding range of North American ducks twice during the breeding season.

Remote sensing data were used to locate rice fields, which were considered to be the principal mosquito breeding sites.

The principal aim of cattle breeding in ancient times was to obtain meat and skin and to produce work animals, which greatly contributed to the development of agriculture.

The two principal mechanisms available to conserve breeding wading birds on lowland wet grassland in England are nature reserves and agri-environment schemes, particularly the Environmentally Sensitive Area (ESA) scheme.

Britain's government forecast in 2009 that wheat yields there would rise from 7.7 tonnes per hectare to 11.4 tonnes in 2025 and 13 tonnes in 2050.On the other hand, trials at CIMMYT's principal wheat-breeding station at Obregon in Mexico indicate a slowdown in potential yield growth to only 0.4% a year.

Hunting, fishing, and breeding of reindeer are the principal occupations.