waterbirds

They provide extensive coastal marine habitats important to recreational and commercial fish species, nesting habitat for sea turtles and terns, breeding and foraging sites for threatened piping plovers and other shorebirds and nesting and rookery habitats for waders and waterbirds affected by the spill.

Jamie Rappaport Clark: Six Months Later, a Unique Opportunity Emerges for Gulf Refuges Jamie Rappaport Clark 2010

They provide extensive coastal marine habitats important to recreational and commercial fish species, nesting habitat for sea turtles and terns, breeding and foraging sites for threatened piping plovers and other shorebirds and nesting and rookery habitats for waders and waterbirds affected by the spill.

Jamie Rappaport Clark: Six Months Later, a Unique Opportunity Emerges for Gulf Refuges Jamie Rappaport Clark 2010

Barnegat Bay and Ocean County support many colonial nesting waterbirds.

2009 February « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009

Barnegat Bay and Ocean County support many colonial nesting waterbirds.

Jakes Branch Park, Beachwood, Opens Sunday « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009

The little bustards were just one of more than 120 different kinds of bird we came across during a five-day visit to this secret corner of France, including a dozen different raptors, 10 long-legged waterbirds, and more nightingales and cuckoos than I hear in a year at home.

Birdwatch: Little bustard 2011

They provide extensive coastal marine habitats important to recreational and commercial fish species, nesting habitat for sea turtles and terns, breeding and foraging sites for threatened piping plovers and other shorebirds and nesting and rookery habitats for waders and waterbirds affected by the spill.

Jamie Rappaport Clark: Six Months Later, a Unique Opportunity Emerges for Gulf Refuges Jamie Rappaport Clark 2010

Barnegat Bay and Ocean County support many colonial nesting waterbirds.

2009 February 27 « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009

In my son Sam's bedroom, a frieze of waterbirds survives, chalked there by my great-uncle Gillachrist in his sunny Edwardian boyhood, a few years before the first world war abruptly ended his life.

Hancox: All under one roof Charlotte Moore 2010

The scrubland (cotos) and heathland ecotone (vera) are the richest habitats for most animals apart from waterbirds.

Doñana National Park, Spain 2008

It is also essential winter habitat for up to 500,000 overwintering ducks and waterbirds such as teal Anas crecca (160,000), wigeon Anas Penelope (100,000), greylag goose Anser anser (100,000), most of Spain's herons, white stork Ciconia ciconia, stone-curlew Burhinus oedicnemus and slender-billed gull Larus genei.

Doñana National Park, Spain 2008