Sentences with word «auklet»

Rhinoceros auklets swam in tight groups.

Large colonies, with over a million individuals, of crested auklets use the Sea of Okhotsk as a nesting site.

Auklets use their headdress feathers as feelers to get around at night, with a role in courtship only evolving later

Cassin's auklet ranges from midway up the Baja California peninsula to Alaska's Aleutian Islands, off North America.

Birders will like the murres, bald eagles, Northern Phalaropes and rhinocerous auklets.

Habitat San Miguel Island and its islets, particularly Prince Island and Castle Rock, provide the most important nesting sites for the Cassin's auklet in the Southern California bight.

Be awed by the abundance and variety of marine mammals: Pacific walrus, northern fur seals, gray, humpback, and sperm whales, sea otters and Steller sea lions; and seabirds from the Aleutians to the Commander Islands including horned and tufted puffins, murres and rare whiskered auklets.

Unlike many other auks, the Cassin's auklet lacks dramatic breeding plumage, remaining the same over most of the year.

The nearby Scott Islands are a protected area, and are considered critical habitat for breeding seabirds, including the tufted puffin, and acts as primary habitat for more than 70,000 species of seabirds including several species Auklets and Petrels.

Feeding The Cassin's auklet feeds offshore, often relying on upwellings of cooler nutrient rich waters and associating with bathymetric landmarks such the continental shelf and underwater canyons.

On the Channel Islands, the Cassin's auklet currently nests on Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, San Miguel, and Anacapa Islands.

The Cassin's auklet usually nest in dense colonies in rock crevices and in burrows they dig in rocky compacted soil or they may excavate burrows for nesting in soft soils under vegetation, stumps, or fallen logs on seaward slopes of coastal sites.

On Santa Barbara Island, efforts are underway to restore seabird nesting habitat for Cassin's auklets by removing non-native plants and planting native vegetation to improve seabird habitat.

Cassin's auklets breed along the Pacific coast, from midways up the Baja California peninsula to Alaska's Aleutian Islands.

Nest boxes insulated against the elements have also been installed with the goal of providing a secure nesting area and vocalization playback systems have been used to attract auklets.

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.

Some traits, such as the tuft of feathers atop a crested auklet, signal attractiveness to the other sex and competitive rank within the same sex.

Range The Cassin's auklet ranges from midway up the Baja California peninsula to Alaska's Aleutian Islands off North America.

Our animal sightings today include harbor seals, deer, bald eagles, rhinocerous auklets, Harlequin ducks, and numerous other birds whose names I can't remember.

Surf Scoters, Red - throated and Pacific loons, and Whimbrels were headed for Alaska or interior Canada, while Black Oystercatchers, Glaucous - winged Gulls, and Rhinoceros Auklets were already in the throes of nesting on the Washington coast.

She organized a group of researchers around the North Pacific Rim (Japan, Canada, U.S.) for a comparative study of forage fishes eaten by the seabird rhinoceros auklet, focusing on spatio - temporal synchronicity in connection with local to basin - scale marine variability (Thayer et al. 2008).

Here, the northern fur seals number more than half a million strong, and avian species include horned and tufted puffins, red - legged kittiwakes, and crested auklets.

Spot horned and tufted puffins, red - legged kittiwakes, crested auklets, and rare Asian vagrant species seldom seen in North America.

The islands support large numbers of western gulls, Cassin's auklets, Brandt's cormorants, and the only nesting population of California brown pelicans along the West Coast of the United States.

We often encounter a variety of seabirds including, Cassin's Auklets, Scripps's Murrelets, Common Murres, Rhinoceros Auklets, and Black - vented Shearwaters.

Large breeding populations of Western Gulls, Cassin's Auklets, and Brandt's Cormorants occur on the Park islands.

Here you can see Glaucous - winged Gulls, Black Oystercatchers, Cormorants, Pigeon Guillemots, Rhinoceros Auklets and many other seabirds.

This month we've also seen Risso's dolphins, long - beaked common dolphins, Mola molas (giant ocean sunfish), Velella velellas (by - the - wind sailors), black - footed albatross, grebes, loons, pigeon guillemots, common murres, rhinoceros auklets; and of course harbor seals, California sea lions and plenty of sea otters.

The waters surrounding Anthony Island are home to a wide variety of sea birds, such as rhinoceros auklets, pigeon guillemots, and tufted and horned puffins, plus many more species are often seen.

[1] It is an important breeding site for northern elephant seals and the endangered Steller's sea lion, as well as several species of seabirds, including rhinoceros auklets, Brandt's cormorants and western gulls.

These are the northern elephant seal, harbor seal, Steller's sea lion, California sea lion, and the northern fur seal (the last of which, like the rhinoceros auklet, began to return to the island again after protection).

Some species, such as the Uria guillemots, nest in large colonies on cliff edges; others, like the Cepphus guillemots, breed in small groups on rocky coasts; and the puffins, auklets and some murrelets nest in burrows.

the largest colonies in southern California of Cassin's auklet, western gulls, Scripps's murrelets, rhinoceros auklets, tufted puf fins, ashy storm - petrels, double - crested cormorants, pigeon guillemots, and black storm - petrels

Introduction The Cassin's auklet is a small, chunky seabird that ranges widely in the North Pacific.

The Cassin's auklet is protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918.

Reproduction The Cassin's auklet may be found in the breeding colony year round.

Threats to the auklet include introduced carnivores (particularly in Alaska), oil spills, and changes in sea surface temperature (caused by El Niño events).

Appearance The Cassin's auklet is a small (10 in., 7 oz.)

Boaters entering Cuyler Harbor receive a greeting from western gulls, California brown pelicans, cormorants, and Cassin's auklets that nest on Prince Island.

Since the removal of the rats, ashy storm - petrels have been recorded nesting on the island for the first time ever and the Cassin's auklet, a small seabird which had been unable to nest on Anacapa Island due to the risk of rat predation, has returned.

Tufted and horned puffins, rhinoceros auklets, pigeon guillemots, and many more species of sea birds are often seen on the exposed rocks and islets between South Moresby and Anthony Islands.

Conservation Status The Cassin's auklet is listed as Least Concern.

The Cassin's auklet is unusual amongst seabirds because it will occasionally lay a second clutch after a successful first clutch.

[23] Only four months after the rodenticide applications, Cassin's auklet (Ptychoramphus aleuticus) began nesting on Anacapa.

Cassin's auklets have been seen on the island as well.

Year - round resident species include the bald eagle, Harlequin duck, great blue heron, pigeon guillemot, rhinoceros auklet, red - necked phalarope and black oystercatcher.

And last week, Whitworth said, researchers came across the first documented nest on Anacapa of a Cassin's auklet, another very rare seabird, similar to the murrelet.

Large dieoffs of Cassin's auklets, a tiny seabird, were first noticed when dead birds began washing ashore in fall of 2014.

Here at the Aquarium we have four different types of alcids including tufted puffins, rhinoceros auklets, common murres and pigeon guillemots.