It is now a wildlife reserve and a nationally important haven for migrating birds.
There is also great concern that flu might be carried to poor African nations by migrating birds.
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Birdwatchers, for instance, can see some 140 species of migrating birds pass over Egypt's deserts, twice a year.
Indeed, tomorrow's planes could perhaps fly in formation, "like migrating birds", Airbus predicts.
As NPR's Richard Gonzales reports, things could soon take a turn for the worse as thousands of migrating birds head toward the bay.
The authors suggest that such transmission events are perpetuated mainly by the movement of poultry and poultry products, rather than by migrating birds.
Artists are free to transcend those boundaries, at some levels, like migrating birds, and provide magnificent and daring wake-up calls to humanity in every country.
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The airport would also disrupt the environment off the Hoo peninsula, which included protected sites that were used by hundreds of thousands of migrating birds, he added.
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The bigger problem: Despite being the cleanest energy available, some environmental groups object to large wind turbines spoiling the landscape, as well as the impact on migrating birds.
In 1972, on the basis of data on toxicity to fish and migrating birds (but not to humans), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency banned virtually all uses of DDT.
The bass, as they always do, proliferated--either moved by migrating birds or fishing enthusiasts--and are now found in lakes from the capital to Kyoto, and even in eight of the 13 moats that surround Tokyo's Imperial Palace.
The federal project joins efforts by groups such as Project Budburst, which has collected seasonal data from more than 15, 000 volunteers across the country, and an educational project called Journey North, funded by the Annenberg Foundation, which every year mobilizes students in some 6, 000 schools to report sightings of migrating birds, butterflies and flowering plants.
Zoning laws would be rewritten so that, over time, large parcels of abandoned land would be converted into landscaped open space networks that would capture and clean storm water, improve air quality, and clean contaminated soil as well as provide new recreational opportunities like bike paths and hiking trails and create habitats for local wildlife and migrating birds.
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The Caspian, slightly larger than Germany, is a seasonal habitat for birds migrating from Europe and Asia, such as the flamingo and the rare white-tailed eagle.
Groups such as the RSPB and WWF say that if the Cardiff-Weston project went ahead, much of this vital feeding area that currently supports tens of thousands of migrating and wintering birds would be permanently submerged.
The kibbutz, set against the backdrop of the red Edom Mountains and the golden sand dunes of the Jordanian border, is a great place to watch birds migrating to and from Africa by day and gaze at the stars by night.
The only Little Tern colony in Wales, the birds breed on the shore before migrating south in September.
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