Sentence examples for raptor population from inspiring English sources
The reestablishment of a raptor population is usually considered a sign of a recovering habitat with reduced human disturbance.
As the effect of wind turbines depends on their total number and their spatial configuration within the area inhabited by a raptor population, I emphasise the importance of making environmental impact assessments not on a case-by-case basis but rather for an entire region with all its wind power plants, which collectively exert an impact on a raptor population.
As in northern seed-eating birds, problems of food scarcity caused by the crash are often exacerbated by dense raptor populations that resulted from preceding years of relatively high prey abundance.
From an ecological perspective, raptor populations in urban areas are highly beneficial.
Professional staff document the migration of hawks, falcons and eagles that provides comparative data for long-term monitoring of raptor populations.
Beyond the breeders and genetics, the conservationists involved in reviving the peregrines have figured out how to monetize the rebounding raptor populations as a green, efficient service with wide-reaching effects.
Significant divergence has been observed among other North American raptor populations and subspecies.
The interpretation is that increased raptor populations have heightened predation danger, so prey species have lowered the level of winter fat reserves to increase their predator escape ability, at the expense of diminishing their ability to withstand starvation.
Note that most environmental surveys agree that falconry has limited impact on wild raptor populations.[5].
Whereas many raptor species' populations had begun to recover from their earlier pesticide induced low levels of the 1970s, their prey species' populations were often in decline.
The area hosts fifteen raptor species and populations of bird species with limited distribution in Greece, such as the hazel grouse, Tengmalm's owl, wallcreeper and willow tit.
