ground-nesting

For example, they don't seem to be out-competing the whitetails, and despite their penchant for eating the eggs of ground-nesting birds, the quail and turkey populations in some of the high-density hog country here in CA are apparently doing fine.

Hog Wild: Battling The Burgeoning Pig Population 2009

Late hay cuts in traditional meadows give ground-nesting birds a chance to complete their breeding cycle, so look out for partridges leading fledglings through the undergrowth, anxious curlews trying to distract your attention from their offspring and yellow wagtails snapping flies from flowers to feed their nestlings.

Make hay meadow photos while the sun shines | Phil Gates 2011

Here we had a rat savior up against the biologists who sought to remove the invasive rats because they posed a threat to the ground-nesting birds that evolved there sans predators.

T.C. Boyle: Taking Flight T.C. Boyle 2011

Here we had a rat savior up against the biologists who sought to remove the invasive rats because they posed a threat to the ground-nesting birds that evolved there sans predators.

T.C. Boyle: Taking Flight T.C. Boyle 2011

He came to know the ground-nesting birds and the difference between the customs of the valley quail, the mountain quail, and the pheasants.

CHAPTER XXXV 2010

For example, they don't seem to be out-competing the whitetails, and despite their penchant for eating the eggs of ground-nesting birds, the quail and turkey populations in some of the high-density hog country here in CA are apparently doing fine.

Hog Wild: Battling The Burgeoning Pig Population 2009

In Milwaukee, by delaying grass mowing at its South Shore Water Reclamation Facility, Veolia allows migrating, ground-nesting birds to fledge their young before nests are disturbed.

Michael Deane: Water Environment Protection Efforts Must Be Collaborative 2010

Rats make it to an island, and all the ground-nesting birds go extinct.

A peer-reviewed article that supports ID ... or something else (part 2) - The Panda's Thumb 2009

Saline lakes at the fringes of the ecoregion serve as a staging and breeding area for migratory waterfowl such as the black-necked crane (Grus nigricollis) as well as the widespread, ground-nesting Tibetan snowcock (Tatraogallus tibetanus).

North Tibetan Plateau-Kunlun Mountains alpine desert 2008

Feral pigs (Sus scrofa) rarely occur in large enough numbers to damage the vegetation however, like rats (Rattus rattus, R. norvegicus), possums, and stoats (Mustela erminea), they do prey on Powelliphanta snails, other invertebrates, and the eggs of ground-nesting birds.

Nelson Coast temperate forests 2008