Sentences with phrase «of shearwater»

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«There is a vast number of shearwater and petrel colonies for which we have absolutely no idea whether there are hundreds of pairs, or thousands, or tens of thousands,» says Steffen Oppel of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

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Costa's lab has carried out groundbreaking tracking studies of a wide range of species around the world, including albatrosses, sooty shearwaters, California sea lions, Galapagos sea lions, crabeater seals, Weddell seals, and southern elephant seals.

Though it looks chaotic at first glance, this migration map, which shows the electronic tracks of 19 shearwaters created by UC Santa Cruz biologist Scott Shaffer in 2005, color - codes the various legs of their trek: light - blue lines track the birds during breeding season, yellow lines represent the northward journey, and orange lines show the winter feeding grounds and southward return.

ScientificAmerican.com phoned Meiburg at his Austin home about to chat about his wild adventures, Shearwater's melodic new CD, Rook — recently named one of the year's most «overlooked records» by popular music blog Pitchfork Media — and his recent sojourn to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., during a day off from touring.

A fossil shearwater (Aves: Procellariiformes) from the Upper Oligocene of France and the Lower Miocene of Germany

Bearing in mind that these are endangered species, the scientists recommend establishing rescue campaigns specifically for the emancipation periods, particularly in the case of the Balearic shearwater.

«This impact is very low compared to that reported for other species on other archipelagos,» comments Rodríguez, although he highlights that the Balearic shearwater is the most affected of the three species.

Now, a study has evaluated the impact of light pollution on three species of petrels on the Balearic Islands, including the Balearic shearwater, the most threatened sea bird in Europe, and concludes that between 30 and 47 % of colonies are exposed to high levels of light pollution.

The study, published in the «ournal of Ornithology, evaluates the effect of outdoor lighting of city roads, cars, streets and sports facilities on three species of petrels which breed on the Balearic archipelago and are under threat: the Balearic shearwater (Puffinus mauretanicus), Scopoli's shearwater (Calonectris diomedea) and the European storm - petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus).

Oppel and his team found that they could use audio recordings to estimate a bird's population size after testing the method on a raucous colony of Cory's shearwaters that breeds on a small island in the Azores called Corvo.

Researchers must understand their subjects only by glimpses, bodies on beaches, orby what RV Shearwater is doing today, which is taking samples of water, squirting them with formaldehyde, then analyzing how rich the water is in copepods and what that means for the reproduction, health, and survival of the right whale.

The sooty shearwater has the longest known commute of any animal.

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Shearwater in Florida sits on 600 acres of preserved habitat and has a dozen nature trails weaving throughout.

Wellness communities like Shearwater and Prairie Crossing in the United States are exposing residents to the soothing yet galvanizing properties of nature at every turn.

my book Shearwater, which is kind of like Twilight with mermaids, has sparkling mermaids.

Despite their small size, house mice have been recorded eating live chicks of albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters.

In fact, Kirkpatrick and Rauzon found that more than 90 percent of the diet of free - roaming cats on Jarvis Island and Howland Island was made up of Sooty Terns, Wedge - tailed Shearwaters, and Brown Noddies — each of which is listed as a species of Least Concern.

Referring to a number of cats killed while preying on wedge - tailed shearwaters (categorized as a species of Least Concern), for example, Duvall pointed out that no cat food was found in their stomachs.

Four orphaned wedge - tailed shearwater chicks and two un-hatched eggs were rescued and transferred to the care of an organization called Save Our Shearwaters, where they will remain until they fledge in November.

For example, reported Jessica Else of the Kauai Garden Island, serving Lihue, on August 15, 2017: «A stray dog killed 33 adult wedge - tailed shearwaters in a colony at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai's Westside.»

The humpbacks were not the only species in town for the anchovy fest; sea lions, common dolphins, thousands of sooty shearwaters (that made their way here from New Zealand), elegant terns and many other bird species are here to dine on the small schooling fish, with the common murres being a particular favorite as fathers and their chicks loudly call out to each other.

Depending on the time of year and the day of the week you are sailing from Port Hardy to Bella Coola, you could arrive in Bella Coola late in the evening after a port of call in Bella Bella, or this route may sail overnight, stopping in additional ports of call in Bella Coola, Shearwater and Ocean Falls.

The Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (CINMS) operates the 62ft Research Vessel Shearwater and the 28ft Research Vessel Sharkcat principally for research, with some additional vessel operations to support education as well as management and enforcement of Sanctuary rules.

Shearwater Resort has been cleverly designed offering outstanding views across Kings Beach to Bribie Island and the wide open blue of the Pacific Ocean.

Only at Shearwater Resort does every apartment, even on the first floor, have views of the ocean and waterways.

Day 6 Cruise to Aride Island, the home of Wright's Gardenia, Audubon Shearwater and the Seychelles Warbler.

Shearwater is a beautiful haven in which to relax after exploration of the stunning coast and the volcanic hinterland.

The popular BC Ferries «circle tour» links Port Hardy to the highly remote and photogenic coastal villages of Bella Bella, Shearwater, Klemtu, Ocean Falls and Bella Coola on the Discovery Coast Passage route.

Shearwater operates a range of activities at the Falls, from bungee jumping to river rafting - and when the day is over, guests can wind down with Wi - Fi in the lounge areas, a drink by the pool, or even a back rub in the massage tent.

By thirty - five miles out, we've already seen three whale species, dozens of sharks, and over twenty bird species: Fork - tailed Storm - Petrels, Tufted Puffins, Sooty Shearwaters, Arctic Terns.

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.

Shearwater Resort has been cleverly designed offering outstanding views across Kings Beach to Bribie Island and the wide open blue of the Pacific

With something like the Shearwater Perdix, you have all of the information that you need.

Bird - lovers will want to come here at dusk, when vast flocks of short - tailed shearwaters fly overhead.

Further out to sea where the continental shelf drops off, the region is one of Australia's best pelagic birding sites, with an abundance of albatross across winter months, shearwaters in summer months, with petrels, gannets, skuas, terns and gulls also present.

The island is also home to impressive numbers of birds: noddies, terns and shearwaters.

There are up to 12 species of albatross plus penguins, gannets, skuas, shearwaters, petrels and terns using the waters off Kaikoura as their feeding ground.

Perched on the shores of Kings Beach, Caloundra, ULTIQA Shearwater Resort is the place to create the holiday you have always wanted.

He was a painter, potter, writer and naturalist who spent most of his life working in or around his family's business, Shearwater Pottery in Ocean Springs, Miss..

«The fence is doing its job,» said Eric VanderWerf, a biologist who, with his wife, Lindsay C. Young, is studying populations of albatrosses and shearwaters on a grant from the Packard Foundation.

They replied: «Shearwaters migration «trigger» is the number of daylight hours.