Rats make it to an island, and all the ground-nesting birds go extinct.    From Wordnik.com.  [A peer-reviewed article that supports ID ... or something else (part 2) - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

It feeds on worms and slugs that it finds by burrowing and will occasionally break and eat the eggs of ground-nesting birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot] Reference

Many islands, such as Kiritimati (Christmas), have feral cat populations that have extirpated ground-nesting seabirds from areas they can reach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Central Polynesian tropical moist forests] Reference

Introduced mongooses, cats, dogs, and rats, as well as humans, have had a severe impact on populations of ground-nesting birds and native lizards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fiji tropical dry forests] Reference

On inhabited islands, such as Manuk Island Nature Reserve, small-scale agriculture poses another threat as farmers oust both tree-nesting and ground-nesting birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Banda Sea Islands moist deciduous forests] Reference

The bird was spread across the 157-square-mile island, but flocks of sheep introduced in 1869 started destroying the natural habitat of the ground-nesting species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference

It was for this same reason that the tinamou and quail and other ground-nesting birds escaped the keen noses of the foxes, otherwise they would have been exterminated long ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Phantom] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Deane: Water Environment Protection Efforts Must Be Collaborative] Reference

The term, imprinting, as used by modern comparative psychologists, refers mainly, although not exclusively, to certain learning situations which occur very early in the lives of ground-nesting birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Introduced carnivores such as the Javan mongoose (Herpestes javanicus) have severe effects on ground-nesting bird populations, and some introduced exotic plants out-compete or severely impact native plant species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comoros forests] Reference

This fence protects the ground-nesting birds and other wildlife from predators.    From Wordnik.com.  [statesman.com - Highschool] Reference

One reason is that ground-nesting birds 'nests are being robbed by other species.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

The loss of such habitat could be disastrous for some ground-nesting birds like the grouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] Reference

Sheep graze the fields and there are ground-nesting birds, so please keep dogs under control.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

This also explains the selective survival of ground-nesting Cretaceous water-birds over others.    From Wordnik.com.  [RealClimate] Reference

They say these three species and other ground-nesting wildlife are strongly affected by unusually wet weather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kansas City infoZine Headlines] Reference

Furthermore, the Metro Parks website states that the flourishing coyote population eats songbirds and ground-nesting birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Paine's Corner] Reference

Its selling point is that it would keep down roe deer numbers, as well as foxes, the notorious predators of ground-nesting birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

By the time spring comes, crops planted in the autumn are too dense for ground-nesting birds such as skylarks and English partridges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

"Restoring the bunch grasses would add additional, better habitat to ground-nesting birds as well as better forage for deer," he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [MailTribune.com Latest Headlines] Reference

He came to know the ground-nesting birds and the difference between the customs of the valley quail, the mountain quail, and the pheasants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 35] Reference

In Russia, they are regarded as pests which cause widespread destruction of nut and grain crops and can also threaten ground-nesting birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cryptomundo] Reference

Unlike coyotes, dogs aren't part of the natural landscape and they can disrupt plants and ground-nesting birds, and chase rabbits and deer, he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

The soft wet grass under their feet was flecked with little grayish-silver cobwebs, and here and there they heard the morning chirp of ground-nesting birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jersey Street and Jersey Lane Urban and Suburban Sketches] Reference

With no trees for nesting, and no other land-based mammals, the unwelcome rat refugees ate their way through the eggs and chicks of the ground-nesting seabirds.    From Wordnik.com.  [STLtoday.com Top News Headlines] Reference

Deer and their hearty appetites are endangering thousands of acres of forest and destroying habitats of other species, including ground-nesting birds, said Heister.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phillies Zone] Reference

The loss of corn buntings was blamed on large-scale monoculture, that means field margins are ploughed up and the ground-nesting birds have nowhere to lay their eggs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Gallagher added that heavy rains and tornados from Hurricane Dolly also created problems for quail, turkey and other ground-nesting birds in South and South Central Texas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Media Newswire] Reference

Further, you claim that the deer are destroying the understory and are negatively impacting songbirds and ground-nesting birds but you have no hard data proving these assertions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Paine's Corner] Reference

—and, moreover, has chivied the gray foxes almost out of the country; and all these animals are the inveterate enemies of all small game, and especially of ground-nesting birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [X. Bird Reserves at the Mouth of the Mississippi] Reference

Red fox also eat woodchucks, hares, squirrels, chipmunks, ground-nesting birds and eggs, berries, fruits, and corn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knox] Reference

Foxes, rabbits, ground squrrels, chipmunks, ground-nesting birds, mice, skunks ... everything ... get chewed-up in its wake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saving the planet one meal at a time] Reference