Hedges have been uprooted, wetlands drained, heaths ploughed up and pesticides such as DDT sprayed copiously to eliminate hostile insects thus also eliminating huge quantities of bird food.
Current Republican front-runner Donald Trump keeps large quantities of bird seed in his pockets at all times, claiming that "it really is a fantastic way to gain a pigeon's trust".
No substantial quantities of bird or bat droppings or other substantial quantities of animal waste are trucked into the site.
She has been an avid bird watcher for years, drawn to the Ramble, as are so many others, by the variety and quantity of birds found there.
The Nepalese avifaunal setup, he explained, is unusually attractive since, thanks in part to an abundant rainfall and the resulting large supply of insects, the palisade of the Himalayas stretching into the country harbors an immense quantity of birds so contentedly stuffed with caterpillars and crickets from one end of the year to the other that they never bother to migrate.
Vast quantities of guano (bird excrement) were mined from island breeding colonies for use as fertilizer for crops.
As populations grew in Europe and the US, nineteenth-century scientists found precious useable nitrogen supplies in South America, in the form of vast quantities of guano – bird droppings – which indigenous people had been using for centuries as a soil enricher.
Despite the large quantity of migrating birds ringed in their breeding areas in Europe, the number of ring recoveries from sub-Saharan Africa is very low and therefore the whereabouts of most small bird species outside the breeding season remain a mystery.
These reports included the following information: county, state, confirmation date, influenza virus subtype, species and quantity of affected birds, and setting (wild, captive wild, backyard poultry, or commercial poultry).
This prevents the hummingbirds from driving each other off; therefore attracting a greater quantity of the birds.
