Sentences with phrase «of harbor seals»

There are tidepools full of fascinating creatures, more than a hundred bald eagle nests, thousands of harbor seals, millions of migrating salmon, and much more.

An army of harbor seals guards a beach at its mouth, opposite Lincoln City's Taft neighborhood, while a variety of waterfowl and wading birds patrol the salt marshes and mudflats to the south and east.

There are tidepools full of fascinating creatures, more than a hundred bald eagle nests, thousands of harbor seals, and millions of migrating salmon — a real wildlife safari in the San Juan Islands!

On the day of my visit, a menagerie of harbor seals, elephant seals, and California sea lions populated the fenced enclosures.

Although whales aren't expected, the wildlife refuge on this route is home to dozens of harbor seals, nesting bald eagles and many species of marine birds.

Alex Shure of Melrose was named 2016 Grand Prize Winner in Mass Audubon's annual statewide photo contest, Picture This: Your Great Outdoors, for his photograph of a harbor seal placidly regarding him beneath the waters of Massachusetts Bay.

Over the course of approximately 30 minutes, you'll enjoy an exclusive tour of the harbor seal facility and a special educational presentation on seals, then help prepare a seal meal, and finally, participate in an exciting harbor seal training session alongside Georgia Aquarium's own animal trainers.

That's why all of our harbor seal pup patients are cared for by a separate team of volunteers in an isolated area of the hospital that doesn't share water pipes or filtration systems with our other pens and pools.

Not exact matches

«The Red Triangle includes roughly 200 miles of coastline.But it's not the beachgoers and surfers that attract great whites to these waters.It's the rich population of other mammals like elephant seals, harbor seals, sea lions, and sea otters.Great whites prefer to prey on these animals instead of humans.

Shure, a photographer / videographer who often shoots under water, was diving off Rockport at a depth of about 20 feet when the harbor seal approached.

CHELSEA — A carousel featuring a harbor seal with black spots, a green - scaled Atlantic sturgeon and a white unicorn covered in pastel butterflies was unveiled Monday as part of a $ 50 - million facelift to the Hudson River Park at Piers 62 and 63.

Considering the consumption of just adult chinook salmon in 2015, the researchers estimated that harbor seals consumed 1,000 adult chinook salmon, while California sea lions consumed 46,000, and Steller sea lions consumed 47,000.

The researchers estimate that from 1975 to 2015, the yearly biomass of chinook salmon consumed by pinnipeds (sea lions and harbor seals) and killer whales increased from 6,100 to 15,200 metric tons, and from five to 31.5 million individual salmon.

Tucked into the scenic Marin County Headlands, the Marine Mammal Center treats Pacific harbor seals, northern elephant seals and other pinnipeds, giving visitors an intimate view of wildlife rescue.

Finding a layer of ash in the ice wouldn't be surprising: the West Antarctic Ice Sheet straddles a broad continental rift that is known to harbor volcanoes, some of them exposed on the surface and others sealed under ice.

In the case of the slaughtered harbor seals of Hood Canal, transient killer whales may have done a good deed for the environment.

A newly formed pack of them swam into this harbor haven and ate all seals, all the time for two months straight.

When the supply of sea lions and harbor seals ran low, orcas apparently turned to the next ready meal — sea otters.

• In the Northern Pacific and the southern Bering Sea, killer whales have been linked to collapsing populations of fur seals and harbor seals.

The harbor seals in Hood Canal, a 60 - mile - long fjord to the west of Puget Sound, seemed anxious.

Groups of three or four transients typically go after a young harbor seal, whacking it senseless with their tails, then sharing it.

Scientists say the orcas probably preferred harbor seals and sea lions because of the high volume of their fat and the relative ease of killing them.

The best estimates are: 250,000 sea birds, 2,800 sea otters, 300 harbor seals, 250 bald eagles, up to 22 orcas, and billions of salmon and herring eggs.

In the flurry of new research on the rapid decline of Steller sea lions, harbor seals, and northern fur seals, I thought one of the most likely causes was a dramatic climate shift in the region they inhabit.

The researchers tested the observation by playing recorded calls of both groups at popular harbor seal hangouts in British Columbia to see how the seals would react.

«Unlike harbor seals, elephant seals and other marine mammals that range over hundreds or even thousand of miles, sea otters stick to their roots.»

To wit, a group of researchers who stumbled across influenza B virus — which was thought to infect only humans — in a stranded harbor seal.

We had a few beautiful days last week — warm and sunny — and I felt like one of those lazy harbor seals who goes belly up the second the sun appears.

Her seventh graders at the Mare Island Technology Academy, in Vallejo, California, choose a seafaring species — such as the harbor seal, black - footed albatross, or leatherback turtle — and draw a picture of it, using pencil or ink.

She worked with orphaned harbor seals at the New England Aquarium and then at the Wildlife Clinic at Tufts University's School of Veterinary Medicine before attending veterinary school.

In the zoo and aquarium community, she has trained a wide variety of species, including beluga whales, Pacific white - sided dolphins, Alaskan sea otters, harbor seals, river otters, penguins, primates, large cats, reticulated giraffes, birds of prey, horses, parrots, macaws, tree kangaroos, red pandas, and dogs.

You can kayak Morro Bay in all its moods, sharing it with harbor seals, sea lions and sea otters, as well as literally hundreds of species of birds, including several rare and endangered species.

Over the course of approximately 30 minutes, you'll enjoy an exclusive tour of the seal facility and a special educational presentation on seals, then participate in an exciting harbor seal training session alongside Georgia Aquarium's own animal trainers.

The parks contain forests of towering redwoods, a coastline where elephant seals bellow on secluded beaches, and hills harboring Tule elk and half the bird species in North America.»

It features three sea lions and a harbor seal that are housed here and were brought in because of their injuries or abandonment.

Take a paddleboard ride — the harbor's waveless anchorage is especially kind to first - timers — and you might also spot pods of dolphins, sea lions, and seals.

The rocky shores of Santa Barbara Island also provide resting and breeding areas for California sea lions, harbor seals and northern elephant seals.

San Mateo County Park Ranger Rob Cala caught these stunning photos of Heyerdahl struggling in the water and alone on the beach at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, a known harbor seal haul - out area.

«It was encouraging to observe him settle down quietly after his tube - feeding of electrolytes and harbor seal formula; next steps will be to get him to full strength formula and get him adjusted to his new surroundings.»

As part of the campaign, center officials are reminding beachgoers to call local mammal resource centers if they spot what looks like a sick or abandoned elephant or harbor seal.

This time of year, young elephant seals and harbor seals are born on beaches up and down the California coast, and these pups stay on the beach while their mothers nurse them for about a month.

Within a few months, our busy elephant seal and harbor seal pup seasons were in full swing as well, and we were caring for a record number of patients on - site at our hospital in Sausalito, California: 291.

Pacific harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) Harbor seals are the smallest of California pinnipeds, with spotted fur and colorization that varies from white to dark brown.

With calm waters and only the sound of glacial caving, harbor seals, bears, deer, wolves and a wide variety of birds call this area home.

Over the next few weeks, marine biologists say more elephant seal pups, harbor seal pups, and sea lion pups will start showing up along the shores of San Luis Obispo County.

We're also right in the thick of peak harbor seal and elephant seal pup season, with more than 187 patients on - site today.

Pacific harbor seals are found north of the equator in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

The Center successfully rehabilitated and released 62 harbor seal patients, like Lorraine and Clippy, in 2012 - one of our best years ever!

Three months of care, many fish milkshakes and a «fish school» graduation later, harbor seal pup «Theros» was given the all clear to return to the wild on Mother's Day earlier this month.

Amongst animals seen at the Center, California sea lions (more than 10,000 have been admitted to the Center since 1975) have a lower rate of birth defects, at 0.09 %, while Pacific harbor seals (the Center has admitted more than 2,200 since 1975) are at 0.4 %.