The breeding season is the most suitable season, usually with favorable conditions and abundant food and water, for breeding among some wild animals and birds (wildlife). Species with a breeding season have naturally evolved to have sexual intercourse during a certain time of year in order to achieve the best reproductive success. Sexual intercourse, in its biological sense is the act in which the male reproductive organ (in humans and other higher animals enters the female reproductive tract Different species of wild animal and birds have different breeding seasons according to their particular requirements and food availability etc.
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Communal breeding
Many species breed in colonies or large communities which is known as communal breeding. In Biology, a species is one of the basic units of Biological classification and a Taxonomic rank. It is common to see large congregations of these species in particular favorable locations in their breeding seasons. These breeding colonies and their location are generally protected by wildlife conservation laws to keep the species from going extinct. In Biology and Ecology, extinction is the cessation of existence of a Species or group of taxa. Some species have evolved for communal breeding in large breeding colonies and can not breed in smaller numbers or pairs alone. These species can be threatened by imminent extinction if they are hunted on their breeding grounds or if their breeding colonies are destroyed. In Biology and Ecology, extinction is the cessation of existence of a Species or group of taxa. The Passenger pigeon is a famous example of probably the most numerous land bird on the American continent which had evolved for communal breeding that went extinct due to large scale hunting in its communal breeding grounds during the breeding season and its inability to breed in smaller numbers. The passenger pigeon ( Ectopistes migratorius) or wild pigeon was a species of pigeon that was once the most common Bird in North America The Americas are the lands of the Western hemisphere or New World, consisting of the Continents of North America and South America
Closed season in hunting
Breeding season of wildlife is usually what is called the closed season when hunting is not permitted and is enforced by law for the conservation of the species and wildlife management, any hunting during closed season is punishable by law and termed as illegal hunting or poaching. Hunting is the practice of pursuing Animals for Food, Recreation, or Trade. "Conservation Biology" redirects here For the Scientific journal, see Conservation Biology (journal. In Biology, a species is one of the basic units of Biological classification and a Taxonomic rank. Wildlife management is the process of keeping certain Wildlife populations including endangered animals at desirable levels determined by wildlife managers Poaching is the illegal Hunting, Fishing or Harvesting of wild plants or animals
See also
- Hunting season
- Reproduction
- Mating system
- Habitat
- Ecology
- Ecosystem
- Habitat conservation
- Habitat fragmentation
- Endangered species
References
- “Breeding Season”; by Paul R. Ehrlich, David S. Dobkin, and Darryl Wheye; www.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds
- Jerram L. A hunting season is a a period marked by the Legality to kill a particular Species in the field of Hunting. Reproduction is the Biological process by which new individual Organisms are produced In Sociobiology and Behavioural ecology, a mating system is any of the ways in which animal societies are structured in relation to sexual behavior A habitat (which is Latin for "it inhabits" is an Ecological or environmental area that is inhabited by a particular Species. Ecology (from Greek grc οἶκος oikos, "house(hold" and grc -λογία -logia) is the scientific study of An ecosystem is a natural unit consisting of all plants animals and micro-organisms( Biotic factors in an area functioning together with all of the non-living physical ( To conserve habitat life for wild species and prevent their Extinction or reduction in range is a priority of a great many groups that cannot be easily characterized in terms Habitat fragmentation is a process of environmental change important in Evolution and Conservation biology. An endangered species is a population of an organism which is at risk of becoming Extinct because it is either few in numbers or threatened by changing environmental or predation Brown, "Helping and Communal Breeding" in Birds 70-75 (1987)
- Jerram L. Brown, "Avian Communal Breeding Systems", Ann. Rev. Ecology & Systematics 9:123 (1978)
- Stephen T. Emlen & Sandra L. Vehrencamp, "Cooperative Breeding Strategies among Birds", in Perspectives in Ornithology, 93 (Alan H. Brush & George A. Clark, Jr. eds. , 1983)
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