Sentence examples for stopover site from inspiring English sources
"It's an incredibly important stopover site for migratory birds from a global perspective," said Jay Laubengeyer, director of the organization's Delaware Bayshores program.
The area is also a stopover site for migrating birds and therefore has the status of a protected area under German Federal Law.
Team member Kristina Paxton of the University of Hawaii, Hilo, spent 2 months catching warblers in 2008 and again in 2009 as they passed through a stopover site on the Lower Colorado River in Arizona.
As a Wetland National Nature Reserve and important stopover site for migratory shorebirds of the East Asian Australasian Flyway, the Jiuduansha wetland, one of four main islands in the estuary, is of both national and international importance.
Migrating birds in Italy varied their diet according to what was available at each stopover site.
A patch of woods, for example, may be a breeding area for some animals while at other times of the year it may serve as a stopover site or wintering site.
They were also handy stopover sites for suspects who were being transported, kidnapped really, under the extraordinary rendition programme coordinated by the CIA.
Birders flock to stopover sites like Cape May, N.J., to watch birds on their journeys to the far north in the spring and back to the tropics in the fall.
Habitat selection at stopover sites was highly influenced by availability of food.
Knowing more about this behavior can help conservationists preserve common stopover sites and migration routes.
That's how the birds return to the same breeding, wintering, and stopover sites year after year.
