Sentences with phrase «herring gulls»

Birds remaining in the colony include fulmars, herring gulls and for a few more weeks, gannets, for which the area is becoming renowned.

(ref) Curiously, that was about the time that whales and herring gulls in the St. Laurence Seaway, and cormorants in Tokyo Bay began developing similar thyroid problems.

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

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.

Niko Tinbergen, a pioneering investigator of animal behavior, experimented with herring gulls 50 years ago, but the relevance of his work to evolutionary theory has not been widely appreciated.

The remote - controlled aircraft has wowed audiences on a worldwide tour as it uncannily flies like its avian inspiration, a herring gull.

«Because the number breeding in urban areas has increased (though still a small percentage of the overall UK population), people do not realise that the herring gull is disappearing from our coasts,» she says.

But in other cases other predators, such as humans or this herring gull or that wood turtle, you can mimic that vibration and can take advantage of it.

A juvenile herring gull has been visiting our bird table for about two years and is now completely relaxed about being approached by me or my wife and will happily feed from my hand.

This bionic technology - bearer, which is inspired by the herring gull, can start, fly and land autonomously - with no additional drive mechanism.

Today I'd like to take you back there again, because this time they've managed to make a herring gull fly.

Yes, except that the herring gull is a construct of foam and carbon fibre — and it flies by flapping its wings, something no other human construct has been able to do reliably.

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Watching the circling gulls feeding on herring at the surface, we can often predict where a Humpback Whale will feed on these same schooling fish.

From the gulls to the dolphins, to the Humpback Whales, everyone was eating herring on this afternoon's tour!

As the dolphins fished, the gulls circled overhead, many of them with herring in their beaks as well.

Over 300 Pacific White - sided Dolphins and hundreds of gulls fed on herring in a tight group this afternoon.