Sentences with word «gulls»

(You could also do a starter listening to the sea and writing or create a sea sound scape with pupils being the sea, rain, gulls etc)

The narrow road winds through bleak country, devoid of life for many miles save the squawking sea gulls overhead... more

The narrow road winds through bleak country, devoid of life for many miles save the squawking sea gulls overhead...

The sounds of waves and gulls reinforce the idyllic setting that is important but not overplayed.

She also joins in on his personal vendetta against the local sea gulls, who clearly have been a menace for years.

The premise seems almost comical until Hitchcock's camera puts you right in the middle of these swarms of crows and gulls and such.

It was love at first sight about a year ago, I was on the Amalfi Coast (see why here) in a gray and rainy day in February and there, under a gray sky in an old house perched on a rock I fell in love with the force of the sea, the blue of the waves and the slow flight of the gulls, I fell in love as rarely happens, a strong and lasting love that I still have, and that will be a part of me forever.

I'd like to see some legitimate research that shows fecal bacteria, specifically from sea gulls, in table salt.

Common foraging techniques used by Audouin's gulls include snatching their prey from the near surface of the water while in flight and plunge diving.

The gulls also prey on species belonging to the genus Clupeidae.

tourism, especially as the Mediterranean tourism season overlaps with the gulls» breeding season resulting in significant disturbances from terrestrial as well as marine recreational activities;

But this summer, the gulls — or more specifically their droppings — have dealt the industry a heavy blow.

This year, the presence of lots of starfish has attracted unusually large numbers of gulls.

The diversity of behaviours is astounding, ranging from «lesbian» gulls who share nests and rear chicks together, to male ostriches courting one another with unique «pirouette dances».

«We hadn't analyzed chickens, but we had geese, gulls, and pigeons.

It is also home to a large colony of black - headed gulls.

The shift in diet could sound a death knell for popular nesting grounds of barnacle geese, eider ducks, and glaucous gulls, researchers warn this month in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.

He has observed polar bears eating more than 200 eggs in 2 hours, and last year no chicks or eggs of any species — barnacle geese, eiders, and glaucous gulls — survived.

From puffins and gulls to auks and albatrosses, satellite tracking is filling in crucial gaps about seabirds — and could save them, shows a masterly book

Kelp provides a long three dimensional structure that offers protection and a source of food for many juvenile species of fish (pollock, cod, and flounder), juvenile and adult shellfish (lobsters and crabs), seals and birds (terns and gulls).

I suspect that gulls can do the same.

However, it has now been shown that such windows are not likely to work for all species, but only for birds like small passerines, gulls and parrots, who have a special type of colour vision.

It therefore seems important to identify the causes of population decline in rural colonies such as Canna, and find ways to conserve the birds at these sites, especially since gulls that fail to breed successfully are known to seek breeding opportunities elsewhere, including in towns and cities.»

In California researchers found what came to be known in the press as «gay gulls»: same - sex seagull couples shacking up together in the nest, protecting eggs with abnormally thin shells that often harbored dead chicks.

Such birds include for example many small perching birds, gulls and parrots.

.5 %), and perching birds (12.0 %) were the wildlife groups most commonly struck by the air force, whereas gulls (18.2 %), seabirds (14.9 %), shorebirds (13.4 %), and raptors and vultures (12.6 %) were most frequently struck by naval aircraft.

At the latest count around 130 pairs of gulls bred on Canna in total, comprising of up to 95 pairs of Herring Gulls, 18 pairs of Great Black - backed Gulls and 13 pairs of Lesser Black - backed Gulls.

But songbirds aren't the only reason birds are so varied and interesting: Bursts of new species appeared among island birds, waterfowl, woodpeckers, hummingbirds, and gulls, among others, at various times during avian evolution, researchers report online today in Nature.

The shape of the food is important too, with Eurasian jackdaws partial to long French fries and herring gulls diving for hot dogs.

Loon surveyors tell us they observe many activities that are detrimental to loons including: disturbance of nesting sites (as a result of boats, canoes, jet skiis, and water level changes); discarding of entangling debris (fishing lines and domestic garbage); inadvertently attracting and supporting nest predators (raccoons, skunks, and gulls); and displacement of loons through habitat loss.

At Bellsund, where the marooned Englishmen had originally come to hunt, they dined on 3 walruses, 11 polar bears, 19 reindeer, 50 foxes and 60 ivory gulls.

Many fish, marine mammals and birds are also found in kelp forest communities, including rockfish, seals, sea lions, whales, gulls, terns, snowy egrets as well as some shore birds.

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Passing through The birds rescued so far include northern gannets, pelicans, a sora, a magnificent frigatebird and laughing gulls, along with a handful of unexpected species like rock doves and a cattle egret that are not generally expected to come into contact with the oil.

Crows, gulls, rats and dogs will boom.

As the birds merged, pairs of gulls and crows broke off their straight flight and engaged in dogfights, making tight turns trying to attack one another.

The attacks typically occur when the gulls are defending themselves and are most frequently seen during the breeding season, when adults protect vulnerable offspring.

Despite their aggressive, quarrelsome and omnivorous nature, Europe has seen a significant decline in herring gulls, lesser gulls and great black - backed gulls, the three largest populations.

Some gulls also defecate or even vomit on the predator for good measure.

However, in each block, the gulls selected the plots of short grass and avoided the long.

Also, the gulls found areas of standing water particularly attractive.

The researchers counted the gulls and various insects on the blocks.

Conflicts between gulls and human populations are a particular problem in seaside towns, with noise, defecation, aggression and destruction of rubbish bags all highlighted as problems.

As long as food is available, gulls will be attracted to urban areas from elsewhere.

The researchers tracked gulls tagged with coloured rings for a six - month period, often moving around the city on their bicycles and observing the gulls with binoculars or cameras with a telephoto lens.

The increase in urban breeding colonies in the Netherlands is thought to be due to increased predication of the gulls in their natural breeding grounds by the red fox.

They found that of the 49 nuisance events observed involving the colour - ringed gulls, only four were in the laying and early incubation periods.

The Hague is a coastal city in the Netherlands where large species such as the Lesser Black - backed (larus fuscus) and Herring (Larus argentatus) gulls are considered to be a pest.

By tracking colour - ringed gulls throughout the study area, the researchers were able to monitor numbers and behaviours during different breeding phases.

Many previous studies have focussed on the urban nesting grounds and the gulls» behaviour around landfill refuse sites, but this is one of the first large - scale studies to investigate the use of cities by gulls in traditional breeding colonies and their contribution to these «nuisance events».