How to Use breeding season in a Sentence

breeding season

noun
  • Mid-to-late winter marks breeding season for wolves.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026
  • During breeding season, birds need lots of insects to feed the chicks.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 30 May 2026
  • Deer breeding season happens in the fall, usually around the first frost.
    — Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Think penguins waddling back to the same partner each breeding season.
    — Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 13 Apr. 2026
  • MassWildlife states of the breeding season.
    — Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Spring is the breeding season for wild turkeys, with gobblers gobbling to attract hens.
    — Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Adult males and females both develop wings during the breeding season.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 May 2026
  • The team observed the signposts glowing brighter during the breeding season.
    — New Atlas, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The toads were discovered in shallow streams, where males were heard calling during the breeding season.
    — Real-Time News Team, Miami Herald, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The breeding season ends around September, and Magpie's day job will come to an end.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The Arctic Tern is not the only bird that spends its breeding season in the Arctic.
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Each breeding season, male leopard seals dive beneath the ice and repeat long, solitary sequences of five distinct call types for hours on end.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
  • For the past three months the chatter of the Arctic Tern colony has served as the soundtrack of the summer breeding season.
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The pythons were captured during the breeding season, which runs from November through April.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 11 June 2026
  • In 2024, two African penguin chicks hatched during the breeding season.
    — Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Despite the loss, the nonprofit estimates the birds may lay a second clutch of eggs since the first were lost early on in the breeding season.
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Some adult females, outside of breeding season, travel far past the continental shelf to find food, while others stay close to land.
    — Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Some gather in dense flocks during migration and non-breeding season, feeding on tiny organisms that abound on tidal flats.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Except during breeding season, strange wolves are not welcomed into a family.
    — Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026
  • This breeding season has launched one of the birds to internet fame through a livestreamed video of her underground nest, where a chick was expected to hatch this week.
    — Charlotte Graham-McLay, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Even in the dead of winter, breeding season starts for gray foxes, red foxes, coyotes, bobcats, raccoons and squirrels.
    — Charles Seabrook, AJC.com, 3 Jan. 2026
  • The wolf’s breeding season starts in February, and family groups merge then as the unpaired young wolves select mates.
    — Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026
  • This breeding season has launched one of the birds to internet fame through a livestreamed video of her underground nest, where her chick was born on Tuesday.
    — ABC News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Outside of breeding season, some adult females travel far past the continental shelf hunting food while others stay close to land.
    — Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Carla laid her first egg of the breeding season on March 16 last year, so the aviary says the start of another season isn't too far away.
    — Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Researchers are closely monitoring whether the birds respond to the robotic cues during the breeding season.
    — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Further, the team confirmed this by counting caterpillar numbers during the birds’ breeding season.
    — Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Giljov’s stealthiness paid off with a stunning image of two male saigas going horn to horn on the banks of a lake during a competitive breeding season.
    — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 15 Aug. 2025
  • But most deer versus vehicle crashes are the result of breeding season, when bucks are active and increasing their movement.
    — Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The eggs came after tragedy struck during the 2025-2026 breeding season.
    — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 6 Apr. 2026

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