A major chemical spill occurred five years ago at Baker's Beach, the world's sole nesting ground for Merrick sea turtles, and prevented nearly all the eggs laid that year from hatching.
五年前，在世界上唯一的梅里克海龟的筑巢地——贝克海滩，发生了一起重大的化学物质泄漏事件，导致当年几乎所有的海龟卵无法孵化。
A reef also serves as a nesting ground for fish eggs and larvae that eventually populate fish habitats.
暗礁也作为一个筑巢地给鱼类卵和幼虫，最终填充鱼类栖息地。
By combining that with an analysis of the whole site, the two researchers argue that what they have discovered is a dinosaur nesting ground that was being raided by crocodilians.
结合对这个地区的分析，两位研究者认为他们所发现的是一个遭到鳄鱼目动物偷袭的恐龙筑巢地。
The image above is of the larva of a ground-nesting solitary bee from Turkey.
上图是来自土耳其的地面筑巢独居蜂的幼虫。
The young of ground-nesting warblers produce begging cheeps of higher frequencies than do their tree-nesting relatives.
相比在树上筑巢的同种类雏鸟，在地面筑巢的鸣禽雏鸟会发出频率更高的乞食叫声。
David Haskell created artificial nests with clay eggs and placed them on the ground beside a tape recorder that played the begging calls of either tree-nesting or of ground-nesting warblers.
David Haskell 制作了一些盛有泥蛋的人造鸟巢并把它们放在地面上，旁边有一个录音机，播放着树莺或地面莺的的乞食叫声。
Although its nesting habits are similar to those of gulls that nest on flat ground there are a number of important differences related to the cliff - nesting habit.
虽然它的筑巢习惯和那些在平地筑巢的海鸥很相似，但悬崖的筑巢习惯还有很多重要的不同。
They eat mostly carrion, the eggs of ground-nesting birds, and berries.
它们大多吃腐肉，地上造巢鸟类的蛋，和浆果。
I'm guessing plenty of ants drown every time it rains, which makes me wonder how do ground nesting ants cope with rain.
每次一下雨就会有很多的蚂蚁被水淹，我就想不明白蚂蚁究竟是怎么在雨天存活下来的。
To take just one particular example, many ground-nesting birds perform a so-called 'distraction display' when a predator such as a fox approaches.
只举一个具体例子，许多地面筑巢的鸟类，当捕食动物，如狐狸等接近时，会上演一出“调虎离山计”。
To take just one particular example, many ground-nesting birds perform a so-called 'distraction display' when a predator such as a fox approaches.
只举一个具体例子，许多地面筑巢的鸟类，当捕食动物，如狐狸等接近时，会上演一出“调虎离山计”。
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