Sentences with phrase «feeding grounds near»

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.

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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 air.

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.

Straddie is near Australia's «humpback highway» — the route taken by whales migrating between their feeding and breeding grounds.

Sea ice is essential for the mating and breeding of the species, which use it to congregate in areas that allow for resting near feeding grounds.