Large beaks were found on the islands where the primary source of food for the finches are nuts and therefore the large beaks allowed the birds to be better equipped for opening the nuts and staying well nourished.

Spain had set up a trade monopoly in the Caribbean, and their primary objective was to protect this, which they did by barring the islands from trading with any foreign ships.

Financial assistance from the US is the primary source of revenue, with the US pledged to spend $ 1. 3 billion in the islands in 1986-2001.

Buses are the primary method of public transport for the islands, which offer a cheap and frequent service to many parts of Malta and Gozo.

Despite this, the process by which Scots overtook Norn as the primary spoken language on the islands was not a swift one, and most natives of Orkney and Shetland likely spoke Norn as a first language until the late 16th and early-to-mid 17th centuries respectively.

The primary targets of the U-boat campaigns in both wars were the merchant convoys bringing supplies from Canada, the British Empire and the United States to the islands of Great Britain and ( during World War II ) to the Soviet Union and the Allied Countries in the Mediterranean.

In March 1988, the Seikan Tunnel opened up, travelling under the Tsugaru Strait, this quickly replaced the slow-moving ferry as the primary transportation between the two islands.

Its primary function was to wage a guerrilla war on any Japanese forces should they attempt to capture the strategically important Fiji islands.

At the narrowest point between the two islands, the waters are referred to as Wolf Strait ( Ulvsund ), which is the primary strait separating Møn from Zealand.

New Zealand Sea Lion | New Zealand ( Hooker's ) Sea Lions. By the 21st century the islands had become its primary breeding location.

All the comprising species are endemic to Madagascar or nearby islands, such as Nosy Be, where they are found in primary and secondary forests.

The urbanized area is divided between the village, the Corvo Aerodrome, and the island's ports ( being the primary links to the other islands in the archipelago ).

Santa Cruz das Flores, located in the north, has a 2493 inhabitants ( 2001 census ) and includes the islands largest community ( Santa Cruz das Flores ), a community located on the eastern coast, and where the local airport, as well as the principal governmental services, primary and secondary schools, and regional health center are located.

The species occurs all over the huge island of New Guinea and associated offshore islands in both primary and secondary forest in both lowland and hill forest up to 1350 m.

A small primary school on Sanday serves the communities of both islands, and currently ( 2009 ) has four pupils, of whom two are the children of the teacher.

The islands have a primary and secondary school, two shops, a fish processing factory, an airstrip, and a church, and a police station.

More than 900 institutions from the primary and secondary school systems are also connected to the CARNet network via ADSL connections, and schools on Croatian islands have been connected to CARNet network in the framework of the e-Islands project.

An island country is a country whose primary territory consists of one or more islands or parts of islands.

The Pheasant Pigeon ( Otidiphaps nobilis ) is a large terrestrial pigeon found in the primary rainforests of New Guinea and nearby islands.

" Aetas were the primary settlers in the islands according to history books.

The primary purpose of Air Tahiti is the scheduled air transportation between the islands of French Polynesia.

While it is likely that population pressures caused tensions between various groups, the primary force that seems to have driven unity or division among tribes and family groups is geophysical: on low islands, where communications are essentially unimpeded, there does not appear to have developed any widely observable incidence of conflict.

The primary driving forces are, in fact, the ever-increasing accessibility of the islands to outside influences, through improved air communications as well as through vastly improved telecommunications capabilities.

The Cobble Hill Tunnel and the Long Island Railroad remained the primary means of access to most of central Long Island from Manhattan and New York City.

Offshore gas and oil development in the Okhotsk Sea within 20 km of the primary feeding ground off northeast Sakhalin Island is of particular concern.

Within the district, there is one high school ( grades 9-12 ), one alternative high school ( grades 9-12 ), one middle school ( grades 6-8 ), one intermediate school ( grades 3-5 ), one primary school ( grades K-2 ), and Whidbey Island Academy ( grades K-12 ).

The County is divided into six primary drainage basins or watersheds, which are the Lower Long Island Sound, Upper Long Island Sound, Bronx River, Upper Hudson River, Lower Hudson River and Croton River basins.

Worldwide, the two primary organizations serving artist colonies and residential centres are Res Artis, based in Amsterdam, and the Alliance of Artists Communities, based in Providence, Rhode Island.

The island's first and primary ferry line is the Steamship Authority, which runs to and from Woods Hole, New Bedford, and Nantucket Island ( in the summer months from the Oak Bluffs terminal ), all in Massachusetts.

It is the primary embarkation point for cruises to Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore and Grand Island National Recreation Area.

The four primary hotels on the beach are The Surf Suites, Shell Island Resort, Blockade Runner and Holiday Inn Sunspree.

It is the primary location of Naval Air Station Whidbey Island.

The Mercer Island School District overviews six common schools on the island: three primary schools ( Lakeridge Elementary, Island Park Elementary and West Mercer Elementary ); one Middle school ( Islander Middle School ); one High school ( Mercer Island High School ); one alternative secondary school ( Crest Learning Center ).

They seem to be fond of eating a native endangered plant, Cordia globosa and feeding on Nickernut ( Caesalpinia ) a primary food plant of the endangered Miami Blue Butterfly ( Cyclargus thomasi bethunebakeri ); additionally on Marco Island, Green Iguanas have been observed using the burrows of the Florida Burrowing Owl, a species of special concern, all of which can make them more of a serious threat to Florida's ecosystem than originally believed.

Hunt, Jr. is the primary ferry on the Currituck Sound route, making daily runs between Currituck and Knotts Island, operated by the North Carolina Department of Transportation Ferry Division.

Long John Silver is a fictional character and the primary antagonist of the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.

On Kwajalein Island the primary mode of personal transportation is the bicycle.

Its primary habitat is mountain Canary Island Pine ( Pinus canariensis ) forest.

In a July 2012 interview, Schilling discussed the downfall of 38 Studios, citing the Rhode Island governor and his own optimism as the primary reasons for the demise of the company.

The Fulton County Grand Jury said Friday an investigation of Atlanta's recent primary election produced `` no evidence '' that any irregularities took place.

Monroe Schwarzlose of Kingsland in Cleveland County, polled 31 % of the vote against Clinton in the Democratic gubernatorial primary of 1980.

There are 10, 469 Irish speakers in County Dublin attending the 31 Gaelscoils ( Irish language primary schools ) and 8 Gaelcholáiste ( Irish language secondary schools ).

* February 22 – In Chicago's Democratic primary, Mayor Martin H. Kennelly loses to the head of the Cook County Democratic Party, Richard J. Daley, 364, 839 to 264, 77.

Although winning the Democratic primary is normally tantamount to election in heavily Democratic Chicago, after his primary victory Washington found that his Republican opponent, former state legislator Bernard Epton ( earlier considered a nominal stand-in ), was supported by many white Democrats and ward organizations, including the chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party, Alderman Edward " Fast Eddie " Vrdolyak.

Around that time her half-sister Wynonna Judd gave her a historic farmhouse and some land in Williamson County, Tennessee, so she moved to Tennessee ; that house has been her primary residence in the US ever since.

In 1956, Anderson was elected State's Attorney in Winnebago County, Illinois, first winning a four-person race in the April primary by 1300 votes and then the general election in November by 11, 000 votes.

County Cork has two Gaeltacht areas where the Irish language is the primary medium of everyday speech.

The primary mineral resources extracted for use in Allegany County are coal, iron, sandstone,

The primary streams draining the central part of the County include Byram River, Kisco River, Mianus River, Mill River, Pocantico River and Silvermine River.

The Orange County Sanitation District's primary plant is located in Fountain Valley next to the Santa Ana River.

The 2007-2013 Meath County Development Plan recognises the Meath environs of Drogheda as a primary growth centre on a par with Navan.

The Galveston County Daily News, founded in 1842, is the city's primary newspaper and the oldest continuously printed newspaper in Texas.

The primary industry of Schoharie County is agriculture.

In February 2008, Tompkins County was the only county in New York State in which Senator Barack Obama beat Senator Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary.

Today, the waterways around Havre de Grace have become adversely affected by silt runoff, which is one of the primary environmental issues of Harford County.

By the middle of the eighteenth century, the Shawnee, an Algonquian tribe, were the primary tribe of Native Americans living in what would become Athens County.

The extraction of natural resources including oil, natural gas, phosphate, and gilsonite constitute primary economic activity of Uintah County.

In addition to the primary and secondary schools that compose Washington County School District, Washington County is home to Dixie State College of Utah in St. George with a campus extension in Hurricane.

Public primary and secondary education schools in Pensacola are administered by the Escambia County School District.

The Preservation Society of Newport County began opening Newport's historic mansions to the public, and the tourist industry became Newport's primary commercial enterprise over the subsequent years.

: See: Lee County School District for primary and secondary schools in the area.