Sentence examples for waterfowl area from inspiring English sources

In February 2006, the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus was isolated in the Ain district, an important migration and wintering waterfowl area of the Rhône-Alpes region.

The National Wildlife Federation has informed the Interior Department that it intends to sue within 60 days to block the use of lead shot in federal waterfowl areas in parts of several states, including California, unless the agency takes action this year.

The lower Fraser River delta is an important waterfowl staging area on the lower coast of British Columbia, Canada.

For many waterfowl, this area is their only nesting ground.

Further north, the parkway forms much of the eastern border of the Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area.

Last Mountain Lake, which has a length of 80 km and a waterfowl staging area at its northern end, is located 5.5 km away.

In mid-October 2004, we enrolled 39 duck hunters who were hunting in southeastern Iowa at Lake Odessa Wildlife Management Area, the state's only limited-access public waterfowl hunting area managed by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources DNRR).

Just 4 km north of Bladworth are the Black & Silver Lakes waterfowl nesting areas.

There are twenty-seven private duck clubs, seven state waterfowl management areas, and a large federal bird refuge on the Great Salt Lake's shores.

Large perennial lakes, swamps, and rice fields provide a wintering and staging ground for several migratory waterfowl; such areas also favor breeding and survival of mosquitoes (10 ).

Hunting, handling and dressing of shot waterfowl in areas where H5N8 is likely to be circulating (as is currently the situation in Europe) carries the risk of spreading avian influenza viruses to susceptible poultry.