Sentences with phrase «largest seabird»

Biologists say oil has smeared at least 300 to 400 pelicans and hundreds of terns in the largest seabird nesting area along the Louisiana coast — marking a sharp escalation in wildlife harmed by BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill...

It features the largest seabird gathering site in the world, with more than 14 million birds from 22 species, nearly all of the remaining endangered Hawaiian monk seals, Hawaiian green sea turtles and Laysan albatrosses.

We'll putter by zodiac through the warm waters of Desolation Sound Marine Park, and ramble Mitlenatch Island's trails to see one of BC's largest seabird sanctuaries.

Gannets are the UK's largest seabird and certainly the most spectacular.

Crowded with millions of birds, these rocky outcrops are home to one of the largest seabird colonies in the Northern Hemisphere.

This trip visits remote crofting communities and picturesque villages of the Hebrides and the Orkney and Shetland Islands, discovering some of the world's largest seabird colonies.

Also, since small islands seldom support rattlesnakes, coyotes or other predators of birds, they become home to large seabird colonies.

«Estimating exactly how many birds nest on a cliff is not very precise» admits Oppel, but the sound recordings provide a very valuable index of how large seabird colonies are.

in Southern Belizean waters, is a nesting refuge for, you guessed it, the Magnificent Frigate Bird, aka the Man - O - War bird, those striking large seabirds often seen wheeling around the skies above this tiny caye and sharing it with a community of Brown Boobies as well as many other species seen along Belize's Great Barrier Reef and cayes.

Cape Kidnappers is home to the largest mainland colony of Gannets which are a large seabird — up to 20,000 breeding pairs are in residence over the summer months raising their chicks and fishing the coastal waters off Cape Kidnappers.

The great frigatebird is a species of large seabird that can spend weeks flying non-stop over the ocean in search of food.

Not exact matches

The growing abundance of these jelly - feeding gobies now serves to provide sustenance to the predators that formerly feasted on the sardines, such as seabirds, larger fishes and, ultimately, humans.

A scientist investigating coconut crabs in a remote Indian Ocean archipelago found evidence that the crabs, the world's largest terrestrial invertebrates, make terrifying sneak attacks on seabirds.

The Short - tailed Albatross or Steller's Albatross is a large rare seabird from the North Pacific.

The so - called «walls of death» drift nets used in the Pacific, which can sometimes extend for 50 kilometres, inadvertently catch large numbers of whales, seabirds and unwanted fish.

Climate change is killing penguin chicks from the world's largest colony of Magellanic penguins, not just indirectly — by depriving them of food, as has been repeatedly documented for these and other seabirds — but directly as a result of drenching rainstorms and, at other times, heat, according to new findings from the University of Washington.

«This once was a world that had ten times more whales; twenty times more anadromous fish, like salmon; double the number of seabirds; and ten times more large herbivores — giant sloths and mastodons and mammoths,» says Roman.

«Declines in whales, fish, seabirds and large animals disrupt Earth's nutrient cycle.»

Although seabirds are adapted for the vicissitudes of life — forage fish numbers have large natural fluctuations — seabirds populations may decline when fishing depresses levels for many years in a row.

These giant seabirds — all of them extinct and all the size of today's albatrosses or larger — ranged worldwide, because their fossils have been found on all continents.

The study was part of a larger project to understand how juvenile seabirds learn.

They feed on the bottom of the food chain — on single - celled plankton, which larger fish can not eat — and then they become prey for all sorts of upper - level predators like tuna, sea bass and halibut as well as seabirds and marine mammals.

Larger fish and marine mammals, as well as seabirds will be missing an important food source.

Black - footed albatross: A large, dark - plumed seabird that lives in northwestern Hawaii, the black - footed albatross is threatened by longline swordfish fisheries, which kill it as bycatch.

These fish species are often termed marine forage fish because they are preyed upon by larger predators including larger fish, seabirds and marine mammals.

Bill has conducted a number of «plankton to predator» studies in the California Current large marine ecosystem, and has written about climate effects on seabirds, marine mammals and fish.

As a bird habitat, Skellig Michael is home to a large population of gannets — 27,000 thousand pairs — as well as the storm petrel, the smallest seabird in Europe.

Songbirds and seabirds may comprise the greatest volume of animals seen by Project Wildlife, but the program also cares for a large number of mammals, including nearly 1,000 opossums, each year, as well as squirrels, rabbits, raccoons, skunks, bats, and foxes.

Prince Island (included within the San Miguel Island column) and Santa Barbara Island support the largest number of breeding seabirds of any of the Channel Islands.

The island is one of the most important seabird nesting sites within the Channel Islands, with 11 nesting species, including western gulls, California brown pelicans, three species of cormorants, three species of storm - petrels, and one of the world's largest colonies of Scripps's murrelets.

There are 140 landbird and 11 land mammal species; three amphibian and five reptile species; large colonies of nesting seabirds, breeding seals, and sea lions; and other diverse marine animals and plants.

When the three currents mingle and rise to sunlit depths, it creates ideal conditions for massive plankton blooms, which are essential for seabirds and larger forms of marine life.

Nests in large breeding colonies on steep coastal cliffs or offshore islands, often mixed with other auks and seabirds.

Large colonies of seabirds crowd offshore rocks and Tufted Puffins are observed at Haystack Rock.

Caldey — along with its uninhabited neighbor, St Margaret's Island — is one of the best places in Wales to see large colonies of nesting seabirds, including cormorants, razorbills and puffins, for a few months each year.

On many of the cays there are spectacular and globally important breeding colonies of seabirds and marine turtles, and Raine Island is the world's largest green turtle breeding area.

Large dieoffs of Cassin's auklets, a tiny seabird, were first noticed when dead birds began washing ashore in fall of 2014.

No major distinction exists between cormorants and shags and they are considered large to medium seabirds.

The islands are breeding grounds for large colonies of seabirds and have the largest breeding concentration in the world of the red - tailed tropic bird.

Despite its small size, South Plaza is home to a large number of species, including a large population of sea lions, a healthy population of land iguanas — some of the smallest in the islands, numerous marine iguanas, and cliffs full of nesting seabirds, such as Swallow - tailed Gulls, Red - billed Tropicbirds, Audubon's Shearwaters, Nazca Boobies, and several other species.

It is inhabited by large numbers of pelicans, sea gulls, ospreys and Costa Rica's largest community of boobies, which makes it a very important seabird sanctuary.

It protects a large amount of seabirds.

Admire a variety of seabirds, such as blue - footed booby, brown noddy, terns, flightless cormorant and depending on the season, a large number of Galapagos penguins.

KILAUEA POINT NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE is a regular stop on the flight path of the largest colony of seabirds on the main Hawaiian Islands.

North East Island is the largest of The Snares and staggeringly, this one island is claimed by some to be home to more nesting seabirds than all of the British Isles together.

Large shoals of fish make Los Cedros a favorite hunting spot for seabirds, especially big pelicans and frigate birds.

It is home to the world's largest colonies of Laysan and Black - footed Albatrosses, as well as millions of other seabirds.

For more on the terrestrial foods topic, see my detailed discussion in this previous post, and this recent (March 30) ScienceNews report on yet another, largely anecdotal «polar bears resort to bird eggs because of declining sea ice» story (see photo below, based on a new paper by Prop and colleagues), which was also covered March 31 at the DailyMail («Polar bears are forced to raid seabird nests as Arctic sea ice melts — eating more than 200 eggs in two hours,» with lots of hand - wringing and sea ice hype but little mention of the fact that there are many more bears now than there were in the early 1970s around Svalbard or that the variable, cyclical, AMO (not global warming) has had the largest impact on sea ice conditions in the Barents Sea).

«These floating islands of ice — some as large as a dozen miles across — are having a major impact on the ecology of the ocean around them, serving as «hotspots» for ocean life, with thriving communities of seabirds above and a web of phytoplankton, krill, and fish below.»

«Arctic waters include some of the world's most productive ocean ecosystems, providing sustenance to large populations of whales, seals, and walruses and seabirds.