Sentences with phrase «shearwater birding»

Black Vented Shearwater Birding Cruise: Channel Islands and Beyond - We Go Where the Birds Take Us - July... >

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Unfortunately, as monitoring efforts continue, we may see these pretty patterns cut short: warming temperatures could deplete phytoplankton populations, which means less fish, squid, and krill for the birds to feast on, and could affect whether sooty shearwaters have enough energy to make it back to their New Zealand breeding grounds.

Some humans may be willing to travel far for fine dining, but that's nothing compared to a sooty shearwater: these birds, which are based in New Zealand, fly roughly 40,000 miles each year to reach their seasonal feeding grounds along coastal California, Alaska, and Japan — and some even clock 620 miles in a single day.

Though it looks chaotic at first glance, this migration map, which shows the electronic tracks of 19 shearwaters created by UC Santa Cruz biologist Scott Shaffer in 2005, color - codes the various legs of their trek: light - blue lines track the birds during breeding season, yellow lines represent the northward journey, and orange lines show the winter feeding grounds and southward return.

Now, a study has evaluated the impact of light pollution on three species of petrels on the Balearic Islands, including the Balearic shearwater, the most threatened sea bird in Europe, and concludes that between 30 and 47 % of colonies are exposed to high levels of light pollution.

Oppel and his team found that they could use audio recordings to estimate a bird's population size after testing the method on a raucous colony of Cory's shearwaters that breeds on a small island in the Azores called Corvo.

«There is a vast number of shearwater and petrel colonies for which we have absolutely no idea whether there are hundreds of pairs, or thousands, or tens of thousands,» says Steffen Oppel of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

News and updates from the original Dream Island, Britain's first Bird Observatory and the densest Manx Shearwater colony on earth.

Sought after birds will include the tubenoses: Black - footed Albatross, Northern Fulmar, Pink - footed Shearwater, Flesh - footed Shearwater (rare), Sooty Shearwater, Buller's Shearwater, Leach's Storm - Petrel, Black Storm - Petrel, Ashy Storm - Petrel, and Least Storm - Petrel (rare).

The humpbacks were not the only species in town for the anchovy fest; sea lions, common dolphins, thousands of sooty shearwaters (that made their way here from New Zealand), elegant terns and many other bird species are here to dine on the small schooling fish, with the common murres being a particular favorite as fathers and their chicks loudly call out to each other.

For bird watchers, we have many migrating bird species in the Pacific Flyway including rhinoceros auklets, pigeon guillemots, harlequin ducks, sooty shearwaters and bald eagles.

Birds observed might include shearwaters, egrets, frigates and terns.

By thirty - five miles out, we've already seen three whale species, dozens of sharks, and over twenty bird species: Fork - tailed Storm - Petrels, Tufted Puffins, Sooty Shearwaters, Arctic Terns.

Shearwaters are offshore birds that live over water for months at a time in both summer and winter depending on the migration pattern.

* Enjoy a twilight stroll to the local Shearwater (Mutton - Bird) sanctuary (September to March).

Bird - lovers will want to come here at dusk, when vast flocks of short - tailed shearwaters fly overhead.

Further out to sea where the continental shelf drops off, the region is one of Australia's best pelagic birding sites, with an abundance of albatross across winter months, shearwaters in summer months, with petrels, gannets, skuas, terns and gulls also present.

The island is also home to impressive numbers of birds: noddies, terns and shearwaters.

En route there are great birding opportunities which may include the Wandering Albatross, Royal Albatross, Black - browed Albatross, Light - mantled Sooty Albatross, Salvin's Albatross, Grey - headed Albatross, Northern and Southern Giant Petrel, Sooty Shearwater and Little Shearwater.

News and updates from the original Dream Island, Britain's first Bird Observatory and the densest Manx Shearwater colony on earth.