Sentences with phrase «for harbor seals»

Annual protection measures for harbor seals in force from March 1 through June 30.

Originally designated as an area for children to swim, a seawall was built making it an ideal place not just for children, but also for harbor seals that now inhabit the cove.

Not exact matches

Alex Shure of Melrose was named 2016 Grand Prize Winner in Mass Audubon's annual statewide photo contest, Picture This: Your Great Outdoors, for his photograph of a harbor seal placidly regarding him beneath the waters of Massachusetts Bay.

A look at bone structure in a fur seal, which has stiff flippers, and a harbor seal, which has bendable paws, reveals an anatomical basis for their different feeding styles.

In the case of the slaughtered harbor seals of Hood Canal, transient killer whales may have done a good deed for the environment.

A newly formed pack of them swam into this harbor haven and ate all seals, all the time for two months straight.

Hopefully, this internship may turn out to be a program for future science assistants at NSF like the fieldwork I'm currently participating in with Dr. Jim Harvey and his studies on harbor seals.

Southall et al (2000 JASA)-- Masking in three pinnipeds: Underwater, low - frequency critical ratios Behavioral techniques were used to determine underwater masked hearing thresholds for a northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris), a harbor seal (Phoca vitulina), and a California sea lion (Zalophus californianus).

The rocky shores of Santa Barbara Island also provide resting and breeding areas for California sea lions, harbor seals and northern elephant seals.

The seal encounter experience offers exclusive, up close and personal animal encounters with harbor seals while learning more about the Aquarium's rescue, research and conservation initiatives, which includes providing much - needed homes for orphaned and stranded harbor seals!

Find out what to do when you see a harbor or elephant seal pup alone on a beach: it can mean the difference between life and death for newborn pups.

That's why all of our harbor seal pup patients are cared for by a separate team of volunteers in an isolated area of the hospital that doesn't share water pipes or filtration systems with our other pens and pools.

This time of year, young elephant seals and harbor seals are born on beaches up and down the California coast, and these pups stay on the beach while their mothers nurse them for about a month.

Within a few months, our busy elephant seal and harbor seal pup seasons were in full swing as well, and we were caring for a record number of patients on - site at our hospital in Sausalito, California: 291.

The natural birthing room for mama harbor seals in Monterey Bay expanded, for the first time, onto Pacific Grove's popular Lovers Point beach, prompting the beach's closure in recent days.A mother and newborn seal pup were spotted on the beach early Sunday by a volunteer docent for the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, and human helpers sought to keep the legally protected marine mammals protected.

For the first time in more than 20 years, a harbor seal was rescued from a Palo Alto waterway Tuesday.

You'll cruise into Blackstone Bay (home to seven glaciers and Yosemite - scale waterfalls) and watch for playful sea otters, harbor seals, kittiwakes, bears, whales, and mountain goats.

In the Pacific, they range from Alaska to Baja California, Mexico.1 Harbor Seals are typically found near shore.They are found throughout the California Channel Islands including all five Islands in Channel Islands National Park.On San Miguel Island 1,100 harbor seals breed annually on Point Bennett, which is also an extraordinary haul out area for four other pinniped species.

Searching under rocks for crabs, watching humpback whales feed on a school of small fish, or being surprised as a harbor seal pops up right next to their kayak are all memories children cherish for a lifetime.

Its sandy beaches are used by pupping harbor seals, and dense kelp beds offshore provide shelter for sea otters.

Monterey Bay is home to many species of marine mammals, including sea otters, harbor seals, and bottlenose dolphins; as well as being on the migratory path of Gray and Humpback Whales and a breeding site for elephant seals.

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.

Come see river otters, harbor seals, tigers and bears vie with their friends for attention and treats just three miles from the hotel.

The cold, nutrient - rich water surrounding the 9,491 - acre, eight - mile - long and four - mile - wide island is home for a diversity of sea life, including 100,000 northern elephant seals, California sea lions, northern fur seals and harbor seals that breed at varying times throughout the year on Point Bennett (30,000 may be on the beach at any particular time).

We comb through various coves, beaches, waterfalls, and feeder streams that line the bay and keep our eyes out for abundant otter, harbor seals, eagles, and shoreside life.

Day 6 & 7: The Big Creek area is a vitally important summer feeding area for humpback whales, Stellar sea lions, porpoises, harbor seals, river otters, and other marine life.

Surveillance for zoonotic and selected pathogens in harbor seals Phoca vitulina from central California.

The application of immuno - assays for serological detection of morbillivirus exposure in free ranging harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) and sea otters (Enhydra lutris) from the western coast of the United States.

By April, our busy elephant seal and harbor seal pup seasons were in full swing as well, and we were caring for a record number of patients onsite at our hospital in Sausalito, California: 291.

Survival versus nonsurvival determinants for neonatal harbor seals.

HI - Point Reyes is two miles from the ocean in a secluded valley on Point Reyes National Seashore, known for its abundant flora and fauna, including bobcats, fox, deer and elk, harbor seals, and sea lions.

Play a round at Pebble Beach, the No. 1 public golf course in the country, book a surf lesson, or make for Point Lobos State Reserve, where scuba divers and kayakers share the water with harbor seals and sea otters.

Bring binoculars to scan the water for sea otters, harbor seals, and sea lions, or, further out to sea, look for spouting whales (gray whales December through March; blue whales in summer).

Once again, we joined Kelvin for a zodiac cruise through the harbor, checking out more interesting icebergs, Minke Whales, and lots of penguins and seals.

According to Laura Sherr, a Marine Mammal Center spokeswoman, besides toxins, warming ocean temperatures have also had an impact on a harbor seal mother's ability to forage for food to take care of their pups.

In my local city, for example, some morons were caught trying to gain entry to an obviously sealed off harbor area that had clear markings.

Sea lions and seals, which include Northern elephant seals, Pacific harbor seals, and occasionally Northern fur seals, need care for a number of reasons.