breeding season

noun

: the period of time when animals are mating

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Across the Great Lakes region, this year’s breeding season has been especially successful, Itani said, with the population surpassing 90 breeding pairs. — Christiana Freitag, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026 Biologists monitored pythons across a 200-square-mile area of Collier County during the breeding season, which ran from November 2025 through April 2026. — Sonia Osorio, Miami Herald, 11 June 2026 The pythons were captured during the breeding season, which runs from November through April. — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 11 June 2026 The University of Exeter researchers monitored the bowers of 61 male great bowerbirds in two sites in Australia’s northern Queensland—the rural Dreghorn Cattle Station and the urban Townsville City—during the prime breeding season (September–December 2023). — ArsTechnica, 2 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for breeding season

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“Breeding season.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/breeding%20season. Accessed 10 Jul. 2026.

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