Sentences with phrase «v shearwater»

These partnerships are facilitated by staff research expertise as well as operational support provided by the r / v Shearwater and r / v Shark Cat.

Not exact matches

Costa's lab has carried out groundbreaking tracking studies of a wide range of species around the world, including albatrosses, sooty shearwaters, California sea lions, Galapagos sea lions, crabeater seals, Weddell seals, and southern elephant seals.

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.

The tern's feat is even more impressive considering how small it is: it has only a 26 - inch wingspan, compared to the shearwater's 43 inches.

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.

«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.

The Shearwater team think the whales we have sighted are skinny.

The sooty shearwater has the longest known commute of any animal.

Shearwater in Florida sits on 600 acres of preserved habitat and has a dozen nature trails weaving throughout.

But since my list is new and I don't have a long relationship with them, there are probably some skeptics on my list, maybe even a few people who hated Shearwater.

my book Shearwater, which is kind of like Twilight with mermaids, has sparkling mermaids.

Despite their small size, house mice have been recorded eating live chicks of albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters.

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.

Shearwater Resort has been cleverly designed offering outstanding views across Kings Beach to Bribie Island and the wide open blue of the Pacific Ocean.

Only at Shearwater Resort does every apartment, even on the first floor, have views of the ocean and waterways.

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 can be mistaken for seagulls, but besides appearance have very little in common.

Shearwater Resort has been cleverly designed offering outstanding views across Kings Beach to Bribie Island and the wide open blue of the Pacific

With something like the Shearwater Perdix, you have all of the information that you need.

«Gull Cottage» and «Cuttlebone Cottage» have two queen sized beds; «Shearwater Cottage» and «Nautilus Cottage» each have one queen sized bed and two single beds, all with electric blankets.

Perched on the shores of Kings Beach, Caloundra, ULTIQA Shearwater Resort is the place to create the holiday you have always wanted.

She has received the 2008 M - tel Award for Contemporary Bulgarian Art, the 2009 Djerassi Honorary Fellowship, support from the Shearwater Foundation, and fellowships from several other artist residency programs.

Sea Biscuit replied: «We've received over 50 Greater Shearwaters on local beaches in the last few days.