Sentences with phrase «shearwater colony»

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

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

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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.

For example, reported Jessica Else of the Kauai Garden Island, serving Lihue, on August 15, 2017: «A stray dog killed 33 adult wedge - tailed shearwaters in a colony at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai's Westside.»