Sentences with phrase «feeding grounds»

These coastal waters become feeding grounds for numerous varieties of whales and dolphins.

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.

They are forced to if they want access to required shallow feeding grounds.

Note: In order to protect whale sharks, only licensed tour operators are allowed to bring divers to the whale shark feeding grounds.

The gray whale has a dark slate - gray color and is covered by characteristic gray - white patterns, scars left by parasites which drop off in its cold feeding grounds.

These habitats provide nursery and feeding grounds for many commercially valuable species.

During the winter Pacific grey whales migrate between summer feeding grounds in Alaska and breeding areas in Baja, Mexico, passing through the Santa Barbara Channel.

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.

Each year humpback whales like this one along Australia's east coast migrate from feeding grounds in Antarctica to breed in tropical waters.

The North Island Kayak Four Day Orcas and the Humpbacks Sea Kayaking Adventure concentrates on the areas known to be the primary summer range of Northern Resident Orca (killer whale) population and the summer feeding grounds of an ever increasing number of Humpback Whales.

The whales begin their journey at their summer feeding grounds off Arctic waters of the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort Seas.

Patchi (voiced by Justin Long) and Alex (voiced by John Leguizamo) migrate to the southern winter feeding grounds.

Although still quite chilly out, this is a great time to get on the water and spot the nearly 20,000 Grey Whales, who return to the area from the Baja Peninsula, where they breed, en route to their summer feeding grounds near the Arctic.

Distribution of feeding grounds at sea is much wider, with some individuals reaching the Gulf of Alaska.

The Arctic feeding grounds of the gray whale are critical to their survival, as they must eat enough to sustain them until they return the next year.

Port Phillip Bay sprawls over 750 square miles, providing feeding grounds for whales and sheltering coastlines for brine - scented beach towns.

The whale's favorite fatty marine crustacean, the amphipod, has declined in the Bering Sea feeding grounds over the last 30 years as currents in the North Pacific Ocean warmed and sea ice gradually melted and thinned.

Scientists have found that wind farms can have a positive effect on wildlife, with some species of birds even using the towering pylons as new feeding grounds as small creatures make their homes there.

Some changes are well - known, such as declines in polar bear populations and stresses to walruses being forced out of their shallow feeding grounds as ice retreats into deeper waters.

Some humans may be willing to travel far for fine dining, but that's nothing compared to a sooty shearwater: these birds, which are based in New Zealand, fly roughly 40,000 miles each year to reach their seasonal feeding grounds along coastal California, Alaska, and Japan — and some even clock 620 miles in a single day.

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.

These changes can mean whales such as humpbacks and blues may have to migrate much further to reach feeding grounds, leaving them with less time to forage for food.

Sea mounts host endemic species, and the deep water that upwells along their sides brings nutrients that support rich feeding grounds for sealife on the surface.

But when Nick Pyenson of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC modelled Pacific feeding grounds during peak glaciation, he found that very little of the north Pacific was shallow enough for feeding: sea levels were up to 120 metres lower than today and the Bering Sea was a land bridge.

This is not only a national park in Mexico, but a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage Site protecting the Blue Whale feeding grounds and Sea Turtle nesting habitat.

Calvin was in fact a healthy and characteristic representative of the population of skrei, which is the Norwegian term for cod that migrate between feeding grounds in the Barents Sea and spawning areas along the Norwegian coast.

Gray Whales (Eschrichtius robustus) travel through the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary on their migration from Alaskan feeding grounds to warm calving lagoons in Baja California, Mexico (December through February).

Shallow (2 - 6 feet) and with a whiter than normal sand bottom, these tarpon feeding grounds stretch for over fifty miles and provide the dining room for almost unbelievable numbers of tarpon.

Shallow (2 - 6 feet) and with a whiter than normal sand bottom, these tarpon feeding grounds stretch for over fifty miles and provide the dining room for an almost unbelievable numbers of tarpon.

Gray whales, as described by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), are stated to feed primarily on swarming mysids, commonly called opossum shrimps, tube - dwelling amphipods, and polychaete tube worms in the northern parts of their range, but are also known to take red crabs, baitfish, and other food (crab larvae, mobile amphipods, herring eggs and larvae, cephalopods, and megalops) opportunistically or off the main feeding grounds.

As we explore by ship, by Zodiac, and on foot, keep an eye out for gray whales, which can be found in these prime feeding grounds, and more than 100 migratory bird species.

In August of this year, the ice once again retreated rapidly from the continental shelf, and away from the walrus's shallow water feeding grounds.

The «arrieros» were on a cattle drive from wintertime feeding grounds to the rich summer grasses of the high plains.

A new report issued by the National Farmers Union and Avoided Deforestation Partners yesterday finds that hundreds of billions of dollars are lost when forestlands are converted into croplands or cattle feeding grounds.

He called for the establishment of dolphin sanctuaries and reserves in the Mediterranean, and echoed calls from Greenpeace and others for a cetacean reserve in the Ligurian Sea off the French and Italian Riviera, where upwelling provides good feeding grounds for pilot and sperm whales as well as dolphins.

The comeback in one part of the Pacific in nearly complete, a study finds — raising questions about a plan to alter shipping lanes to avoid feeding grounds

A pioneering study — led by scientists from Imperial College London in collaboration with marine biologists from UC Santa Barbara — found that the predators, through their fecal material, transfer vital nutrients from their open ocean feeding grounds into shallower reef environments, contributing to the overall health of these fragile ecosystems.

Help track the movements of humpback whales between their North Atlantic feeding grounds and their breeding grounds in the Wider Caribbean Region

Their favorite food is a variety of copepod called Calanus finmarchicus, which whales follow to all their known feeding grounds: Cape Cod, lower Bay of Fundy, Great South Channel, and Jeffreys Ledge.

It offers the BEST diving in Belize: The atoll is full of mangroves and sea grass flats which act like feeding grounds for sea creatures.

These areas may also have included feeding grounds.

Seagrass beds are huge feeding grounds, and chances are that you will come upon huge sting rays feeding on the bottom, and schools of parrot fish and hogfish grazing on epiphytes growing on the seagrass.

Add in a bit of intrigue with scuba diving among shipwrecks and visiting feeding grounds of flamingos, and you have one appealing destination!

Humpback feeding grounds are in cold, productive coastal waters.

From November to March, Banderas Bay is home to humpback whales, migrating from their polar feeding grounds to breed and play in these safe warm waters.

The celebration is all about the migration of the Pacific Gray Whale with their newborn calves from the protected lagoons of western Baja to their ancestral feeding grounds in the cold waters of the Bering Sea.

These animals are highly mobile and they move regularly through the coast visiting the Los Angeles and Orange County regions and other feeding grounds near Newport Beach and the Channel Islands.

Every fall, hundreds of California Gray Whales leave their cold Artic feeding grounds in the Bering and Chukchi Seas and journey more than 5,000 miles to Baja California's shallow lagoons to mate and bear their calves.