Sentences with phrase «feeding grounds for»

Grow a wildflower meadow Not only are wildflowers beautiful to look at, they're extremely important for our native wildlife, providing hunting and feeding grounds for small mammals such as wood mice, voles and shrews.

Scientists also expect sea - level rise to alter coastal ecosystems such as the salt marshes and estuaries of Long Island, threatening feeding grounds for migrating waterfowl and nursery habitat for commercial fish.19

Findings include that increasing ocean acidification reduces the availability of carbonate minerals in seawater, important building blocks for marine plants and animals, and that by 2100, 70 % of cold - water corals, key refuges and feeding grounds for commercial fish species, will be exposed to corrosive waters.

The Chuchki Sea is home to an estimated 2,000 polar bears and serves as the feeding grounds for migratory gray whales.

Monterey Bay is the summer feeding grounds for the great baleen whales, which swarm into the bay to feed on the abundant krill blooms.

The slopes of this canyon provide very productive waters and feeding grounds for marine mammals, so we are in the perfect position to find whales quickly.

These are feeding grounds for migratory shorebirds and home to several rare and threatened species: sea turtles, dugong and inshore dolphins to the lesser known mangrove - dwelling butterflies and false water rats.

The Belize Barrier Reef is a thriving ecosystem home to dozens of species of coral that provide shelter and feeding grounds for a cornucopia of marine life, including hundreds of species of fish, three species of saltwater turtles, dolphins, rays, seahorses, manatees, whale sharks, and jellyfish.

Although coral reefs compose less than 4 % of the ocean's surface, they provide shelter and feeding grounds for an astonishing 25 % of all marine life species.

It provides breeding and feeding grounds for at least twenty - five endangered or threatened species; thirty - six marine mammal species, including blue, gray, and humpback whales, harbor seals, elephant seals, Pacific white - sided dolphins, and one of the southernmost U.S. populations of threatened Steller sea lions; over a quarter - million breeding seabirds; and one of the most significant white shark populations on the planet.

The Channel Islands provide essential nesting and feeding grounds for approximately 99 percent of seabirds that nest in southern California.

It is the prime northern feeding grounds for blue whales and humpback whales from May through November.

Summer feeding grounds for the eastern population lie in the Bering and Chukchi Seas between Alaska and Russia.

The Channel Islands National Park is a major breeding and feeding grounds for this species.

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

Ucluelet boasts the largest area of feeding grounds for salmon and halibut from BC to Alaska.

Ucluelet has the largest amount of feeding grounds for salmon and halibut of any area north and south.

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

Thousands of ponds are scattered like mirrors across Alaska's coastal plain, providing nesting and feeding grounds for waterfowl.

Not exact matches

I have seen too much: — an arrogant pastor that told me to leave the grounds and slammed the church door behind him; another that told me «all bisexuals are promiscuous» and thought this was not bigotry nor prejudice; — a young well - meaning pastor that was my bodyguard once, and never returned to feed the poor in their tent - villages; — a wonderful older brother that helped feed the poor but was scolded by his church too many times for being corrupted by his friendship with me; — an elder with weight identity issues that had medical intervention who talked down to me since I had gender identity issues and medical intervention (I laughed during the meeting because the hypocrisy was amazing...); — an elder that was like Jesus without condemnation towards me, and amazing... but we had to meet in my home far away from his rejecting church.

Here's a couple of them: (a) «their votes will be directed to those men only who have become the most distinguished by their abilities and virtue, and in whom the people perceive just grounds for confidence» (Fed.

For their horses they buy hay, grain, shavings and other supplies - either from stores like Big Horse Feeds or on the grounds, brought in by local vendors.

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.

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.

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.

New Caledonian humpback whales stop for days on end at underwater mountains when they migrate between breeding and feeding grounds.

Devoid of feeding grounds and hiding places for fish of any size, the trench seems empty.

Bluefins in the Pacific, on the other hand, feed off California for a few years before crossing the ocean to their breeding grounds off Japan — where a single one can fetch $ 175,000 on the Tokyo market.

«Our young males don't seem in any hurry to move on from their feeding grounds at Ningaloo — we have some individuals that have now been sighted here for 19 years and have even matured.»

The plankton, in turn, attracts a vast array of marine life, providing feeding as well as spawning grounds for myriad pelagic species, including some that have migrated across wide oceanic areas.

It may be better than the alternative, but it's entirely disingenuous for producers and consumers to justify eating grass - fed beef on the essentialist grounds that it was «meant to be» that way.

The fall season was ending and winter was quickly approaching, so Patchi's father gave out a roar for the herd to migrate south to the winter feeding grounds.

The people at Morningstar suspended their awards gala for 2016 on the grounds that they give many of the prizes to companies and funds based on subjective data, like «juried» selections.To their credit, Morningstar did not want to «feed the beast» of mutual fund marketing departments any longer.

According to an internal memo, if employees at the hotels feed the cats, this is grounds for dismissal!

Proper care is more than just feeding and providing shelter for an animal; it also includes medical care, housing, flea / tick / heartworm prevention, grounds upkeep, etc..

Duties include preparing diets, feeding animals in assigned area, cleaning exhibits, minor repairs in exhibits, grounds maintenance in and around exhibits, supplying enrichment to assigned animals, operant conditioning, interaction with visitors, assist with animal programs for education classes, assist with set - up and work during special events, and assist with general daily running of the facility.

These mangroves are nurseries for juveniles of many reef fishes; they also provide feeding grounds and introduce fixed nitrogen and organic detritus into the reef system.

Clean natural mineral rich water fed from underground springs flows throughout the grounds and is collected for daily for.

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.

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.

Here, males and females congregate looking for mates and newborn calves prepare themselves for the long journey north to their summer feeding grounds in the Arctic.

The gray whales make the trek to Alaska to the feeding grounds of the Bering Sea to feast on millions of tiny crustaceans — a delicacy in the gray whale world — before traveling south to the warmer temperatures for mating season.

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.

Their common name alludes to the thick coat that is needed by the species for protection from the cold weather and frigid waters found in both their feeding grounds and the majority of their breeding grounds.2

This can include visiting the sea gardens or sea turtle grounds, the Vixen shipwreck, feeding fish from the boat and even stopping for a short swim at a sandbar too.

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.

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.

From the end of December through March, great gray whales from Siberian and Alaskan waters swim 6,000 to 10,000 km to the warm waters of Baja's lagoons to give birth and raise their calves for three months before starting their long journey back to their feeding grounds.

These fragile and endangered coral reefs act as key feeding and breeding grounds for a myriad of marine life and provide essential shoreline protection.