Sentences with phrase «auk with»

This species is a small black and white auk with a small head and thin sharp bill.

Not exact matches

A new study from The Auk: Ornithological Advances explores how Poland's cavity - nesting Marsh Tits deal with predator attacks and finds that while tactics such as small entrances and solid walls do help, adaptations like this can only take the birds so far.

To see how bird family members interact with each other in stressful situations, researchers from Vetmeduni Vienna and the University of Gdansk, Poland, studied parent - offspring interactions in a long - lived seabird, the little auk (Alle alle).

To analyse the mechanisms controlling familiar interactions among little auks, the researchers first implanted offspring birds, then parents with hormone - releasing pellets.

The birds, the researchers report online today in The Auk: Ornithological Advances, prefer to spend time with one specific individual, usually their mate.

The new study, published in The Auk: Ornithological Advances, a journal of the American Ornithological Society, examines the trade - offs that birds make when parental care overlaps with the annual molt.

While humans had hunted the auk for millennia, with Native Americans including the skins and bones in their death rituals, excessive hunting for meat and feathers was too much for the population to bear.

What begins as a search to explain exactly why the guillemot has an oddly shaped egg evolves into a look at the history of egg collecting, the science behind egg colors, a nerve - racking experience with the few remaining eggs of the now - extinct great auk, and the study of microbes in eggs.

Forms large breeding colonies on coastal cliffs or offshore islands, often mixed with other puffins and auks.

«With the auks leaving the cliffs this month and the gannets heading out to sea in September for the winter there remains one very good reason to visit the reserve, namely dolphins and minke whales in the waters below!»

Nests in large breeding colonies on steep coastal cliffs or offshore islands, often mixed with other auks and seabirds.

It resembles the closely related Scripps's and Craveri's murrelet, with which it shares the distinction of being the most southerly living of all the auk species.

Like all auks it is a wing - propelled diver, chasing down prey under the water with powerful wingbeats.

It resembles the closely related Craveri's murrelet, with which it shares the distinction of being the most southerly living of all the auk species.

We promise to do all we can to protect your kin, the other auks, birds and animals that we share our territories with, to maintain the diversity of conditions necessary for their survival.