Sentences with phrase «thousands of seabirds»

«The death of thousands of seabirds is contrary to the purpose of our National Wildlife Refuge System,» said Marjorie Ziegler of the Conservation Council for Hawaii.

Thousands of seabirds and sea turtles, seals and other marine mammals are killed each year after ingesting plastic or getting entangled in it.

One thing you MUST understand about Anacapa Island camping is there are THOUSANDS of seabirds and you are THEIR guest.

A council representing government agencies affected by the spill — which killed thousands of seabirds — approved the park service's project, including a final environmental report last November.

Thousands of seabirds and marine mammals died.

The cliffs are falling silent at the RSPB's new nature reserve at Troup Head following the hustle and bustle of the last few months when tens of thousands of seabirds occupied the cliffs for the summer.

Thousands of seabirds call this area home and fill the skies and sea rocks.

Every year, thousands of seabirds and marine mammals ranging from herons, pelicans, and albatross to sea otters, sea turtles, fur seals, dolphins, and whales swallow or become entangled in this debris.

Three years earlier, tens of thousands of seabirds were killed by a spill from the Erika off the coast of France.

From there we voyage northwest to a small cluster of islands that have no human inhabitants but are home to sea lions, Humboldt penguins and hundreds of thousands of seabirds, including pelicans, cormorants, Inca terns and Peruvian boobies.

Not exact matches

As a bird habitat, Skellig Michael is home to a large population of gannets — 27,000 thousand pairs — as well as the storm petrel, the smallest seabird in Europe.

With a wealth of diverse wildlife including humpback whales, harbour seals, porpoises, black bears, bald eagles, and seabirds plus thousands of years of First Nations» culture and history, the Broughton Archipelago is a great location for an early season kayak tour.

It's part of the Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge, where thousands of migratory seabirds, such as red - footed boobies, great frigatebirds and albatross, rest, forage or nest.

Several species of seabirds including Kittiwakes, of which there are several thousands of pairs at Troup Head, have had a hard time in recent years, as Dominic continues:

In a seemingly endless orbit around the trawler are hundreds if not thousands of wheeling seabirds, and in its wake even more seabirds squabble with Cape Fur Seals over whatever is lost to the net in the final retrieve.

Point Año Nuevo is used by thousands of breeding seabirds and marine mammals and supports a world famous elephant seal haul out and breeding ground.

With a wealth of diverse wildlife including humpback whales, harbour seals, porpoises, black bears, bald eagles, and seabirds plus thousands of years of First Nations» culture and history, the Broughton Archipelago is a great location for an early - season six - day kayak tour.

This year's mild winter was different, though, because dead seabirds were washing up on the beaches of Clatsop County by the thousands, in one of the biggest seabird die - offs in recorded history.

Hundreds of thousands of dolphins, sharks, whales and seabirds follow the impressive body of sardines as they move along the coast.

Mitlenatch is the habitat of a huge, three thousand pair seabird colony on the Strait of Georgia.

These Islands are spectacular, eroded into numerous arches and caves, which provide shelter for thousands of seas lions and seabirds, some of which are very rare.

The home and nesting place for tens of thousands of local seabirds and a favorite snorkling spot.

The island provides habitat for thousands of nesting seabirds including white - capped noddy terns, bridled terns, black - naped terns and silver gulls.

Commercial fishing boats also kill tens of thousands of albatrosses and hundreds of thousands of other seabirds, mostly by longline fishing.