Sentences with phrase «between feeding grounds»
The most common is the California Gray Whale, which migrates between the feeding grounds of the Gulf of Alaska and the birthing / mating grounds of Baja California.
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The museum ran a whale - watching boat that plied the waters between Long Beach and the Channel Islands, searching for gray whales on their way from their feeding grounds in the Arctic to their calving shoals in Baja California Sur in Mexico.
They used sequences of maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA and «microsatellite genotypes,» or DNA profiles, to both describe the genetic differences and outline migratory connections between both breeding and feeding grounds.
The occasional genetic interchange between populations also seemed to correlate with feeding grounds with high densities of krill, places where whales from different populations are likely to move vast distances and come into contact with other populations.
New Caledonian humpback whales stop for days on end at underwater mountains when they migrate between breeding and feeding grounds.
Each year between December and April, thousands of gray, humpback and other whales migrate from their Arctic feeding grounds to Mexico's Baja Peninsula's warm waters to mate and give birth.
Gray whale mothers and calves are the last to leave their breeding grounds in Baja and pass by Monterey Bay between April and May to reach their feeding grounds in Alaska.
Summer feeding grounds for the eastern population lie in the Bering and Chukchi Seas between Alaska and Russia.
During the winter pacific gray whales migrate between summer feeding grounds in Alaska and breeding areas in Baja, Mexico, passing through the Santa Barbara Channel.
The gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus), [1] also known as the grey whale, [3] gray back whale, Pacific gray whale, or California gray whale [4] is a baleen whale that migrates between feeding and breeding grounds yearly.
Each winter and spring, their spectacular migration between northern feeding grounds and southern nursery areas offers amazing opportunities for whale watchers along the west coast.
Straddie is near Australia's «humpback highway» — the route taken by whales migrating between their feeding and breeding grounds.
This extension makes Point Cabrillo a brilliant location from which to watch the migration of the Gray Whales between the lagoons of Baja Mexico and their summer feeding grounds in the Arctic Ocean.
Each year, between November and April, California grey whales make their annual migration from feeding grounds in Alaska south to mate and have babies in the warm coastal lagoons of Baja, Mexico.
Australia's eastern seaboard is affectionately known as the Humpback Highway because it's the route whales take when shuttling between their feeding and breeding grounds.
It migrates between feeding and breeding grounds yearly and makes one of the longest annual migrations of any mammal, traveling some 5,000 miles each way from its northern feeding grounds in Alaska to its breeding and calving grounds in the warm lagoons of Baja Mexico.
This whale population, hunted nearly to extinction generations ago, is slowly recovering, with an estimated 450 right whales dividing their time between winter calving areas off the southeastern United States and summer feeding grounds from New England north.