Sentences with phrase «sea feeding grounds»

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But when Nick Pyenson of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC modelled Pacific feeding grounds during peak glaciation, he found that very little of the north Pacific was shallow enough for feeding: sea levels were up to 120 metres lower than today and the Bering Sea was a land bridsea levels were up to 120 metres lower than today and the Bering Sea was a land bridSea was a land bridge.

Loggerhead sea turtles, which feed thousands of miles from their hatching grounds, seem to return to breed with their genetic relatives at sites very close to their births.

-- was migrating on a three - month trek to its feeding grounds in the Bering Sea, an eight - thousand - mile journey.

While the humpback whales are here specifically to feed, the gray whales are keen on reaching their feeding grounds in the Bering and Chukchi seas of Alaska after having spent the past couple of months in Baja California in their breeding lagoons.

It offers the BEST diving in Belize: The atoll is full of mangroves and sea grass flats which act like feeding grounds for sea creatures.

Distribution of feeding grounds at sea is much wider, with some individuals reaching the Gulf of Alaska.

The gray whales make the trek to Alaska to the feeding grounds of the Bering Sea to feast on millions of tiny crustaceans — a delicacy in the gray whale world — before traveling south to the warmer temperatures for mating season.

The North Island Kayak Four Day Orcas and the Humpbacks Sea Kayaking Adventure concentrates on the areas known to be the primary summer range of Northern Resident Orca (killer whale) population and the summer feeding grounds of an ever increasing number of Humpback Whales.

Summer feeding grounds for the eastern population lie in the Bering and Chukchi Seas between Alaska and Russia.

Critically endangered western gray whales migrate into their summer feeding grounds near Sahkalin Island, Russia in late May or early June and return to their winter feeding grounds in the South China Sea in late autumn.

It provides breeding and feeding grounds for at least twenty - five endangered or threatened species; thirty - six marine mammal species, including blue, gray, and humpback whales, harbor seals, elephant seals, Pacific white - sided dolphins, and one of the southernmost U.S. populations of threatened Steller sea lions; over a quarter - million breeding seabirds; and one of the most significant white shark populations on the planet.

This can include visiting the sea gardens or sea turtle grounds, the Vixen shipwreck, feeding fish from the boat and even stopping for a short swim at a sandbar too.

Every year an estimated 20,000 grey whales migrate from the Baja Peninsula's breeding and calving lagoons in Mexico toward their summer feeding grounds in the Bering and Chukchi Seas near the Arctic.

These whales travel from feeding grounds in the Bering Sea to mating and...

This is not only a national park in Mexico, but a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage Site protecting the Blue Whale feeding grounds and Sea Turtle nesting habitat.

In this government owned aquatic theme park, you can snorkel and swim in the lagoon, see the Green Sea Turtle breeding grounds and touch the turtles — ranging in size from a few inches to over 600 pounds — walk a nature trail, see the native birds in the aviary, view (and even feed) the sharks, grouper and eels in the Predator Reef aquarium, and get a taste of Cayman culture and heritage in the Cayman Street exhibit.

The whales begin their journey at their summer feeding grounds off Arctic waters of the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort Seas.

The celebration is all about the migration of the Pacific Gray Whale with their newborn calves from the protected lagoons of western Baja to their ancestral feeding grounds in the cold waters of the Bering Sea.

Plentiful sponges and corals provide feeding grounds to endangered animals including the green sea turtle.

These are feeding grounds for migratory shorebirds and home to several rare and threatened species: sea turtles, dugong and inshore dolphins to the lesser known mangrove - dwelling butterflies and false water rats.

The Chuchki Sea is home to an estimated 2,000 polar bears and serves as the feeding grounds for migratory gray whales.

Similar challenges arise in the Norwegian and Russian Arctic, where receding sea ice will put feeding grounds beyond the reach of pregnant bears (which are restricted to land) by the 2050s.

Scientists also expect sea - level rise to alter coastal ecosystems such as the salt marshes and estuaries of Long Island, threatening feeding grounds for migrating waterfowl and nursery habitat for commercial fish.19

Thus, to whelp in April and still remain for over shallow feeding grounds, seals are coincidentally surrounded by extensive winter sea ice.

As sea ice recedes with increasing spring and summer insolation, feeding grounds once again become available.

Heavy sea ice acts as a barrier that prevents access to their feeding grounds.

In habitat where sea ice either melts completely or recedes beyond the limits of shallow - water feeding grounds, bearded seals simply come ashore.

«Cargo ships, often carrying dangerous substances, regularly pass through the Alboran Sea's primary dolphin feeding grounds.»

Sea ice is essential for the mating and breeding of the species, which use it to congregate in areas that allow for resting near feeding grounds.