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Meaning of "nesting colonies"

Nesting colonies: This phrase refers to a grouping of animals, usually birds or insects, that build their homes or nests close to each other for protection, socialization, and reproduction

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Polar bears preyed on nesting colonies of the auk.
Nesting colonies have been observed.
This species sometimes forms loose nesting colonies.
Nesting colonies are very common among seabirds on cliffs and islands.
Significant disturbance effects on bird nesting colonies are possible.
The nesting colonies are very dense with nests close together and territorial conflicts common.
Generally silent except for cackling at nesting colonies.
High Island is known for its nesting colonies of spoonbills and herons.
Silent except for occasional low grunts at nesting colonies.
New York City Audubon has monitored nesting colonies on the island for over twenty years.
The use of controlled burning has been used to reduce deciduous growth around nesting colonies.
It also steals eggs from nesting colonies of Arctic terns.
The whole study was performed in French Guyana at nesting colonies.
Large nesting colonies can be active across many generations, sometimes over a hundred years.
They gather into large and dense nesting colonies.

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Nesting colonies average two to five nests, although one colony had forty nests.
Fauna Santa Barbara Island is home to a large sea lion rookery and seabird nesting colonies.
There are reports of mixed-species nesting colonies with other Furnariidae species.
Upland sandpipers can sometimes be found in small, loose nesting colonies.
Major Indian Ocean nesting colonies include India, Pakistan, and other coastal countries.
Due to the danger of being attacked, nesting colonies are very dense.
Nesting colonies range is size from five pairs to nearly 400.
Avian cholera also occurred in common elder ( Somateria mollissima ) on nesting colonies in the St.
It 's home to one the largest nesting colonies of griffon vultures ( Gyps fulvus ) in Europe.
Biology Black-footed Albatrosses have been studied extensively at their Hawaiian nesting colonies since the 1950s.
Goose nesting colonies in the eastern Arctic, last documented in the early 1970s.
In the Bale Mountains there are nesting colonies of 500 or more birds.

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