Sentences with phrase «of frigatebirds»

To record brain activity, the team attached a small device to the heads of frigatebirds while they were still on land.

There are an abundance of frigatebirds and it is among the best place in the archipelago to see red - footed boobies, Nazca boobies, swallow - tailed gulls, storm petrels, tropicbirds, Darwin's finches, and Galápagos mockingbirds.

Three of the five extant species of frigatebirds are widespread, (the magnificent, great and lesser frigatebirds) while two are endangered (the Christmas Island and Ascension Island frigatebirds) and restrict their breeding habitat to one small island each.

Scenic Highlights: One night on Santa Cruz, three nights cruising through the Galápagos National Park aboard the Xavier, visit to see the giant tortoises, watching three species of boobies and two species of frigatebirds nesting together at Punta Pitt, snorkelling with rays and sea turtles in the shadow of Kicker Rock, witnessing the towering volcanic cliffs and the dark - sand beaches of Santiago island.

Not exact matches

Frigatebirds» ability to survive for long periods on less than an hour of naptime per day is remarkable considering how badly sleep deprivation affects other species, says Rattenborg.

But climate change will shift atmospheric currents in the tropics, which could endanger the frigatebird's migratory strategy, says Rob Suryan of Oregon State University.

Unlike other birds, most of which avoid clouds because of their turbulence, frigatebirds seem to seek them out to ride on the strong updrafts under cumulus clouds in the open ocean to gain altitude.

Now Weimerskirch's team has cracked the frigatebird's secrets by tracking the migrations of birds native to Europa in the Mozambique Channel, off the coast of south - east Africa, all over the Indian ocean and as far east as South - East Asia.

Weimerskirch's team tracked the migrations of 49 frigatebirds native to Europa Island in the Mozambique Channel throughout the Indian Ocean using tiny data loggers.

«Frigatebirds are really strange in many aspects of their life history,» says Henri Weimerskirch at the Centre for Biological Studies, Chizé, France.

Soaring over a throng of males who immediately inflate their throats like red balloons to show off their virility, a female frigatebird lands next to the one with the biggest and reddest throat and offers him her companionship.

Scientists built miniature devices to measure avian head movement, brain electrical activity and GPS location, and they attached them — almost like hats and backpacks — to great frigatebirds of the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador.

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.

The results, published in Nature Communications, showed that frigatebirds could soar and glide with one or both sides of their brains asleep.

It's part of the Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge, where thousands of migratory seabirds, such as red - footed boobies, great frigatebirds and albatross, rest, forage or nest.

Expect to witness an amazing concentration of birdlife and massive bird rookeries, including the largest nesting colonies of red - footed boobies and frigatebirds.

Daphne is home to a variety of other birds including Galápagos martins, blue - footed booby, Nazca booby, short - eared owls, red - billed tropicbirds and magnificent frigatebirds.

Elsewhere, the small isle of North Seymour is a haven for birdwatchers, thanks to its colonies of blue - footed boobies, frigatebirds and swallow - tailed gulls.

[42] In 2003, a survey of the four colonies of the critically endangered Christmas Island frigatebirds counted 1200 breeding pairs.

After a safety briefing, enjoy a circumnavigation of Daphne Major, a paradise for sea birds such as magnificent frigatebird.

North Seymour is the nesting site for a large population of magnificent frigatebirds and the only place where we can always find males showing their red pouches to attract females.

You can see a number of Belize birds out a sea some may include Whimbrels, Magnificent frigatebirds and much more...

Cormorants, black hawks, and frigatebirds flit in and out of the shadows while pink flamingos create a vivid backsplash.

The frigatebird is a large species of sea - bird that has an enormous wingspan that often exceeds two meters in length.

Enjoy spotting all the iconic species of the Galapagos Islands, including giant tortoises, marine iguanas, blue - footed boobies, frigatebirds, sea lions, pelicans, and Darwin's finches.

On the southwest corner of Lighthouse Reef Atoll, it is a protected area known for its rookeries of red - footed boobys and magnificent frigatebirds, as well as dozens of other bird species who are either permanent residents or migratory.

A stunning secluded local beach well off the tourist trail, we snorkeled close enough to touch enormous sea turtles, were slapped around under water by playful sea lions, and swam through schools of sharks, rare coral, and colorful fish while blue - footed boobies and frigatebirds circled overhead.

Depending on the time of year, you may witness the magnificent frigatebirds» electrifying mating rituals.

More than 60 species of birds have been identified on the Turneffe Atoll with the following seen commonly: snowy egret, little blue heron, great blue heron, tricolored heron, yellow - crowned night heron, clapper rail, mangrove swallow, brown pelican, magnificent frigatebird, double - crested cormorant, osprey, mangrove warbler, great tailed grackle, golden fronted woodpecker, tropical mockingbird, cinnamon hummingbird, green breasted mango, hooded oriole, white crowned pigeon and royal tern.

In addition to the terns, there are frigatebirds, noddies, tropicbirds, and Bonin Petrels, not to mention 600,000 breeding pairs of Laysan Albatross and 60,000 pairs of Black - footed Albatross — virtually the entire world populations.

Surprisingly, the frigatebirds were also found to exhibit bihemispheric sleep, in which both hemispheres of the brain are asleep at the same time.

The team predicted that the flying frigatebirds would exhibit unihemispheric slow wave sleep (USWS), a phenomenon in which animals sleep with only one hemisphere of the brain at a time, allowing them to keep one eye open to watch out for potential threats.

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

Headed by neurophysiologist Niels Rattenborg, the international team of researchers that authored the study spent time in the Galápagos Islands monitoring the brain activity of great frigatebirds (Fregata minor).

This means that frigatebirds are able to fly with both of their eyes closed.