Sentence examples for surface feeding from inspiring English sources

Some birds, such as the mallard, usually swim at the surface, feeding only as far underwater as they can reach by dipping their heads.

In both the organic horizon (H) and the underlying mineral horizon (Ah), the bulk of the soil volume consists of excremental pedofeatures derived from enchytraeids, earthworms with excrement either in vermiform or mammilated forms and surface feeding animals such as beetles.

In some areas, the groundwater is close to or at the surface, feeding lakes and marshes across the region.

Surface feeding itself can be broken up into two different approaches, surface feeding while flying (for example as practiced by gadfly petrels, frigatebirds and storm petrels), and surface feeding while swimming (examples of which are practiced by fulmars, gulls, many of the shearwaters and gadfly petrels).

It is theorised that they benefit from the actions of diving predators such as seals and penguins which push prey up towards the surface while hunting, allowing the surface feeding storm petrels to reach them.

There are four basic feeding strategies, or ecological guilds, for feeding at sea: surface feeding, pursuit diving, plunge diving and predation of higher vertebrates; within these guilds there are multiple variations on the theme.

It was not so long ago that people believed the moon itself might be inhabited The controversy over the existence of the Martian "canals" promoted by 19th-century telescoperusalusal, & the more recent observations of "seasonal" color changes on the Martian surface fed the hopes of those of us who did not want to believe the Earth a unique outpost of life.

And with that clutter comes the need to both hide and surface feeds.

On Stellwagen, humpbacks tend to surface feed during daylight hours, when their prey is most abundant in the upper portion of the water column [25].

"All of the plane's sensors along with a set of cameras mounted on the jet's outer surfaces feed the system, providing the pilot with X-ray vision-like imagery," says David Cenciotti, a military aviation journalist and former Italian Air Force officer.

This makes plants much more vulnerable to drought stress, especially when dependent on low and erratic rainfall; Roots not only becoming shorter, but also thicker, thus having lower specific surfaces (less feeding surface per unit root mass).