Sentences with phrase «more seabird»

At the top, the trail continues inland, passing more seabird colonies in a thin palo santo forest.

It's no surprise that as more plastic enters the oceans, more seabirds will accidentally eat it.

In a seemingly endless orbit around the trawler are hundreds if not thousands of wheeling seabirds, and in its wake even more seabirds squabble with Cape Fur Seals over whatever is lost to the net in the final retrieve.

Not exact matches

The researchers are continuing to study more bluefin tissue samples to see if elevated radiation levels persist, and are also looking into radiation levels in other long distance migratory species including sea turtles, sharks and seabirds.

Published today in the journal Scientific Reports, the research found that drones are much more precise at monitoring the size of seabird colonies in tropical and polar environments than more traditional ground counts.

«We need a more systematic study,» says Bernie Tershy, a seabird biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

This might appear to be good news, but it is due to a decline in fish stocks near the surface which has forced seabirds to feed in areas where there are more bacteria (known as sulfate - reducing bacteria) which control the levels of mercury.

And now you find them in places that are still more or less unchanged from that time — with tussock grass (Poa flabellata is the species) and these seabirds and high winds and cliffs and oceans.

Antarctica is home to more than 10,000 species including most of the world's penguins, whales, seabirds, colossal squid and Antarctic tooth fish.

«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.

That correlation enabled them to extrapolate an estimate for the seabird population for the entire island — 6,000 breeding pairs — something that in the past has been little more than a simple guess.

As their hunting behavior shifts from ice to land, the polar bears «have progressively arrived earlier and earlier to have access to more eggs,» says biologist Børge Moe, another principal author of the study who works at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research in Kongsfjorden, where seabird egg predation is just beginning to increase.

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What's more, Monterey Bay's unique geology produces an area of relatively calm bay waters, where, according to Dr. Griggs, «plankton, small fish, seabirds, whales, and dolphins congregate to share in the food.»

With 750,000 nesting seabirds and more bald eagle nests per kilometre of shoreline than anywhere else in Canada, Gwaii Haanas is a birder's dream.

Every year, human beings toss over 6 million tons of waste into the world's oceans, killing more than a million seabirds and 100,000 mammals.

Spitsbergen, Greenland, Iceland, Norway and the North Pole are perfect for explorations by small ship cruise, and our selected itineraries get you up close to the abundant wildlife in this region: polar bears, musk ox, walrus, belugas, narwhal, killer whales, seabirds and more.

But there's much more to do in Iceland: whalewatching from Reykjavík or Húsavík; exploring the volcanic landscapes of the Snaefellsnes Peninsula; discovering the puffin - speckled Westmann Islands; striking out across the vast Vatnajökull icecap; and sailing around the isolated, silent Westfjords, home to seals, seabirds and Arctic foxes.

Visit Seabirds for more information about restoration activities in the park.

Visit Seabirds to learn more about these restoration efforts

The abundance of seabirds and pinnipeds on the northern Channel Islands means eagles likely take advantage of those resources more than in other areas.

This could pose a problem for recovery of bald eagles on the northern Channel Islands (see below), because pinnipeds and seabirds contain more DDE than do marine fish, due to bioaccumulation at higher trophic levels.

Learn more about the region at the visitor center or by chatting with the rangers, and expect to see wildlife, from harbor seals, seabirds in the warmer months and migrating gray whales.

Michaelmas Cay is also home to more than 23 species of seabird and is one of the most significant bird sanctuaries on the Great Barrier Reef.

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.

Each year, more than one million seabirds die from ingesting plastic garbage, often in the form of straws.

While the global picture of corals is gloomy in both the shallow and deep seas, the overall evidence is strong that marine protected areas protect not only corals, but the associated biological diversity that they support — fishes, invertebrates, marine mammals, seabirds, and more.

More fisheries are relying on smaller prey fish such as anchoveta - with more than 10.7 million metric tons pulled in, depriving seabirds and other marine animals of food (FAO «Ten Biggest Fisheries in the World» 2006) It seems that humaniMore fisheries are relying on smaller prey fish such as anchoveta - with more than 10.7 million metric tons pulled in, depriving seabirds and other marine animals of food (FAO «Ten Biggest Fisheries in the World» 2006) It seems that humanimore than 10.7 million metric tons pulled in, depriving seabirds and other marine animals of food (FAO «Ten Biggest Fisheries in the World» 2006) It seems that humanity's

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 also have a dolphin - whale playdate, ways to save seabirds and more.

Overall, seabird counts had fallen by more than 69 % − which adds up to 230 million birds − in the past six decades, and those seabirds that ranged the widest seemed to fare the worst.

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).

Researchers estimate that more than 70 percent of seabirds worldwide, for instance, have swallowed plastic at some point, according to a 2015 research paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Working with the advice of the Marine Conservation Biology Institute, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the Pew Environmental Fund, Bush selected sites that collectively harbor the world's smallest atoll (Rose Atoll - which is home to more than 500 fish species and 97 % of American Samoa's seabirds), several threatened turtle nesting beaches, the deepest ocean canyon in the world (the Mariana Trench, with its otherworldly, undersea volcanoes, acidic thermal vents, liquid sulfur, and incredibly rare life forms), hundreds of species of corals, Hawaiian monk seals, and countless seabirds, rays, sharks, dolphins and whales.

Exxon Valdez oil spill March 11 million gallons of crude oil spilled killing seabirds, 4000 sea otters, 250 bald eagles, and more then 20 whales, according to the conservation group WWF

Midway is home base for many seabird species, from the Bonin petrels pictured above, to Great frigatebirds, Red - footed boobies, Black - footed albatross and more.