Sentences with phrase «as seabirds»

This pollution is impacting our marine ecosystems, wildlife such as seabirds, dolphins, fish, and turtles, and plastic fragments are even displacing plankton at the base of the food chain.

That plastic can then move up the food chain as seabirds, seals and other marine predators eat those fish.

Larger fish and marine mammals, as well as seabirds will be missing an important food source.

They feed on the bottom of the food chain — on single - celled plankton, which larger fish can not eat — and then they become prey for all sorts of upper - level predators like tuna, sea bass and halibut as well as seabirds and marine mammals.

A new study shows that these whales and outsized land mammals — as well as seabirds and migrating fish — played a vital role in keeping the planet fertile by transporting nutrients from ocean depths and spreading them across seas, up rivers, and deep inland, even to mountaintops.

The growing abundance of these jelly - feeding gobies now serves to provide sustenance to the predators that formerly feasted on the sardines, such as seabirds, larger fishes and, ultimately, humans.

Multi-modal survey of Adélie penguin mega-colonies reveals the Danger Islands as a seabird hotspot.

Later he dove for abalone off Santa Barbara and volunteered as a seabird rehabilitator.

Not exact matches

The resulting data is used to compare relative abundance of seabirds over time — to help us understand populations within the sanctuary and their possible impacts on local ecosystems and as a barometer for other changes in the environment.

Among those, the nitrogen - and phosphorus - rich guano produced by millions of seabirds (such as nesting cormorants, above) was so prized it went by the name «white gold.»

This might appear to be good news, but it is due to a decline in fish stocks near the surface which has forced seabirds to feed in areas where there are more bacteria (known as sulfate - reducing bacteria) which control the levels of mercury.

«As a graduate student, it was humbling to study seabirds older than me.

But, these seabird colonies are wonderful as far as that goes.

Polar cod fulfil a key role in the Arctic food web, as they are a major source of food for seals, whales and seabirds alike.

This information is of fundamental importance, as polar cod are a major source of food for seals, whales and seabirds in the Arctic.

Passing vessels could record such characteristics as abundance and distribution of phytoplankton all the way up to fish, marine mammals and seabirds.

As a result, seabirds starved and salmon runs declined.

We will test albacore tuna, swordfish, yellowfin tuna, salmon sharks, blue sharks, mako sharks, opah, seabirds, turtles, and whales from regions as diverse as New Zealand, Alaska, Hawaii, North America, and Mexico.

It is an excellent example of the value of long - term demographic studies for long - lived species such as albatrosses,» according to Oregon State University's Robert Suryan, a seabird ecologist who was not involved in the study.

The study provides valuable confirmation of the idea that ancient penguins swapped flight for underwater prowess, known as the tradeoff hypothesis, says Chris Thaxter, a seabird ecologist at the British Trust for Ornithology in Thetford, U.K. «This is a major step forward... in understanding how the tradeoff hypothesis works.»

Climate change is killing penguin chicks from the world's largest colony of Magellanic penguins, not just indirectly — by depriving them of food, as has been repeatedly documented for these and other seabirds — but directly as a result of drenching rainstorms and, at other times, heat, according to new findings from the University of Washington.

The socially monogamous seabirds are long lived, sometimes as much as 22 years.

As the mother of an estimated 36 albatrosses, she is a symbol of success in the face of declining seabird numbers worldwide.

Stella Maris could, for example, monitor the habits of seabirds as they fly, then plunge into water and capture prey.

«These areas are home to the majority of Antarctic species — from seals and seabirds to mosses, lichens and small invertebrates, such as tardigrades and springtails.

The disappearing sea ice is bad news for both bears and seabirds, as hungry bears are raiding nests, and the increasing predation on seabirds will likely diminish their numbers.

This, the researchers say, is consistent with recent studies into the feeding behaviour of seabirds and suggests marine life might be increasingly attracted to marine debris as a source of food regardless of the potential harm caused.

As sea ice disappears, polar bear populations will crash harder than the seabirds.

As their hunting behavior shifts from ice to land, the polar bears «have progressively arrived earlier and earlier to have access to more eggs,» says biologist Børge Moe, another principal author of the study who works at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research in Kongsfjorden, where seabird egg predation is just beginning to increase.

As Arctic sea ice melts earlier each year, polar bears in some parts of Norway and Greenland are abandoning ice floes for dry land and their favorite meal — seals — for seabird eggs.

Indeed, their literature review found that sulphur - seeking seabirds consumed plastic about six times as often as those that don't seek it out.

The great auk — a flightless, North Atlantic seabird that became extinct in the mid-19th century — is held up as a prime example of the damage done by overzealous museum collectors.

In the Polar Regions, many seabirds such as skuas were known to accumulate this toxic element at high levels in their tissues.

This small mammal has the ability to affect vegetation and seabirds on these islands and was introduced across much of this region as part of the historic fox farming industry.

These small crustaceans are important organisms of the zooplankton, particularly as food for baleen whales, Mantas, whale sharks, Crabeater seals and other seals, and a few seabird species that feed almost exclusively on them.

Black - footed albatross: A large, dark - plumed seabird that lives in northwestern Hawaii, the black - footed albatross is threatened by longline swordfish fisheries, which kill it as bycatch.

Seabirds may struggle to find food for their chicks as they are unable to shift their breeding seasons as the climate warms, a new study suggests.

As one of most southerly - distributed seabirds, the Adà© lie is a species of penguin common along the entire Antarctic coast that except during spring when they come on land to breed, are highly reliant on the sea and its ice to hunt and live.

Krill is central to the ecosystem around South Georgia, feeding numerous colonies of marine mammals, seabirds and penguins, as well as sustaining plentiful fisheries within South Georgia waters.

Pacific seabirds, such as this Great Blue Heron, can accumulate mercury in their bodies from the fish they eat.

Changes in the size and form of the beak have enabled different species to utilize different food resources such us insects, seeds, nectar from cactus flowers as well as blood from seabirds, all driven by Darwinian selection.

It's no surprise that as more plastic enters the oceans, more seabirds will accidentally eat it.

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 EuropAs 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 Europas well as the storm petrel, the smallest seabird in Europas the storm petrel, the smallest seabird in Europe.

Songbirds and seabirds may comprise the greatest volume of animals seen by Project Wildlife, but the program also cares for a large number of mammals, including nearly 1,000 opossums, each year, as well as squirrels, rabbits, raccoons, skunks, bats, and foxes.

On that same island in New Zealand, for instance, ecologists observed that, as rat numbers increased in the absence of cats, the population of seabirds whose eggs rats preyed upon declined.

Possible over-fishing of tuna could be an indirect threat, as predatory fish herd shoals of small fish to the surface where they become available to surface - feeding seabirds (Ratcliffe 1999).

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.

As well as seeing these magnificent creatures you'll likely see seabirds, dolphins, sharks, tuna, giant squid and seals, and watch and learn as scientists gather information about the orcas, collecting whale photo identification, towing underwater cameras and recording the orcas» vocalisationAs well as seeing these magnificent creatures you'll likely see seabirds, dolphins, sharks, tuna, giant squid and seals, and watch and learn as scientists gather information about the orcas, collecting whale photo identification, towing underwater cameras and recording the orcas» vocalisationas seeing these magnificent creatures you'll likely see seabirds, dolphins, sharks, tuna, giant squid and seals, and watch and learn as scientists gather information about the orcas, collecting whale photo identification, towing underwater cameras and recording the orcas» vocalisationas scientists gather information about the orcas, collecting whale photo identification, towing underwater cameras and recording the orcas» vocalisations.

With dramatic, panoramic views along the Moray Firth and beyond, the site is protected as a Site of Special Scientific Interest and as a Special Protection Area and for seabird enthusiasts, is best visited between April and September.

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: