Sentences with phrase «feeding grounds in»

Eleven turtles, fresh from egg laying, are making a dash from Playa Grande, Costa Rica to their feeding grounds in the Galapagos.

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.

Rich Press: Every fall, Gray whales migrate from their summer feeding grounds in the Arctic to their breeding and calving grounds in lagoons off Baja, California in Mexico.

Rich Press: Every fall, Gray whales migrate from their summer feeding grounds in the Arctic to their breeding and calving grounds in lagoons... Continue reading →

Each year, the Eastern North Pacific Gray Whale (Eschrichtius robustus) migrates from its feeding grounds in the Arctic to the warm Mexican waters and Lagunas, a journey of 8,500 to 11,000 miles.

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.

San Diego is one of the top locations to watch gray whales as they migrate from feeding grounds in the Arctic to calving lagoons in Baja California, Mexico.

Boarding our vessel the «Whale Watcher» a new 50 seat catamaran we head out into Flinders Bay to witness the spectacular migration of Humpback whales migrating from their feeding grounds in Antarctica.

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.

Each year, November through April, California gray whales make their annual migration from feeding grounds in Alaska south to mate and have babies in the warm coastal lagoons of Baja, Mexico.

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.

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Every year an estimated 20,000 grey whales migrate from the Baja Peninsula's breeding and calving lagoons in Mexico toward their summer feeding grounds in the Bering and Chukchi Seas near the Arctic.

Twice a year, the California Gray Whale migrates from its feeding grounds in the Bering straits to the breeding grounds off Baja, California and back again.

During June and July you may be lucky enough to catch a sighting of a humpback whale as they migrate north from their feeding grounds in Antartica to warmer waters.

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.

Critically endangered western gray whales migrate into their summer feeding grounds near Sahkalin Island, Russia in late May or early June and return to their winter feeding grounds in the South China Sea in late autumn.

Every year, humpback whales swim 3,000 miles from their summer feeding grounds in Alaska to mate and calve in Hawai`i's clear, warm waters.

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.

When the lakes and feeding grounds in th enorth freeze over, birds flock here by the tens of thousands.

Gray whales and humpbacks are migrating along the coast on their way from Southern California to their feeding grounds in Alaska, and there have been many reports of new sightings this month.

While the humpback whales are here specifically to feed, the gray whales are keen on reaching their feeding grounds in the Bering and Chukchi seas of Alaska after having spent the past couple of months in Baja California in their breeding lagoons.

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.

Then in late winter and early spring, the gray whales and their calves migrate back up to their feeding grounds in the Arctic.

-- was migrating on a three - month trek to its feeding grounds in the Bering Sea, an eight - thousand - mile journey.

Researchers at the Cascadia Research Collective in Olympia, Washington, tracked seven whales — which they recognized by the markings on their tail flukes — from their summer feeding grounds in the Antarctic Ocean to their winter breeding grounds off the Pacific coast of Central America.

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.

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Some feared they were being watched; a car break - in, a strange woman found lurking in a backyard late at night and even a snake spotted on the grounds of the DNC all fed an undercurrent of fear.

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.

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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.

But, Pautzke thought, why not raise the fish in ponds until they actually felt the urge to go to salt water, use the streams merely as chutes to send them out to the ocean's rich feeding grounds, wait two years, and — presto — get back hundreds, thousands, even millions of big, healthy trout?

It's wonderfully written, terrifically illustrated, and thoughtfully historical in how it grounds infant feeding practices in their past and present social context.

In those Alaska summer feeding grounds, Gabriele sees the same 300 or so whales «again and again.»

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.

Though it looks chaotic at first glance, this migration map, which shows the electronic tracks of 19 shearwaters created by UC Santa Cruz biologist Scott Shaffer in 2005, color - codes the various legs of their trek: light - blue lines track the birds during breeding season, yellow lines represent the northward journey, and orange lines show the winter feeding grounds and southward return.

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

Overall, the study's data from mitochondrial DNA — different from nuclear DNA in that it helps scientists trace maternal lineages — reveal that population structure in humpback whales is largely driven by female whales that return annually to the same breeding grounds and by the early experience of calves that accompany their mothers on their first round - trip migration to the feeding grounds.

After migrating hundreds of miles from their winter feeding grounds, they marched off the ice in the austral spring and — even though their nesting territories were concealed under snow — headed to the very colonies where many were hatched or had raised chicks before.

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.

Researchers determined the whales» current population numbers by comparing photographic shots of humpbacks in their North Pacific feeding grounds (around the Pacific Rim from California to Kamchatka) to images taken of the whales in their southern, tropical breeding areas — some as far as 3000 miles away.

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.

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.

Dumped into huge stockpiles, tires harbor vermin, contribute to the spread of disease by creating mosquito breeding grounds, and feed huge fires: In August 1998, a grass fire ignited 7 million tires near the town of Tracy in California's San Joaquin Valley, sending a plume of soot and noxious gas thousands of feet into the aiIn August 1998, a grass fire ignited 7 million tires near the town of Tracy in California's San Joaquin Valley, sending a plume of soot and noxious gas thousands of feet into the aiin California's San Joaquin Valley, sending a plume of soot and noxious gas thousands of feet into the air.

When their feeding grounds coincide with shipping lanes — traffic in and out of the Cape Canal toward Boston passes through here — a strike rate of one a year is hardly unlikely.

In a place like that, it makes sense to move around in search of new feeding grounds, to make use of any and all sperm that comes your way, and to keep your young close until they're ready to take care of themselveIn a place like that, it makes sense to move around in search of new feeding grounds, to make use of any and all sperm that comes your way, and to keep your young close until they're ready to take care of themselvein search of new feeding grounds, to make use of any and all sperm that comes your way, and to keep your young close until they're ready to take care of themselves.

By orienting within these two extremes, the salmon can find the feeding grounds of their ancestors, the team reports today in Current Biology.

«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.»