Sentences with phrase «penguin colonies on»

The city's wide variety of landmarks and activities attract a large number of UK tourists, and it's a great base for touring Victoria's Grampian National Park, viewing the penguin colonies on Philip Island or driving the scenic Great Ocean Road.

According to Mervis, he will also be allowed to begin an NSF - funded Long Term Ecological Research project in which he «will soon be visiting penguin colonies on offshore islands, monitoring their return from the open ocean to mate and produce offspring.»

The penguin colony on Chiloé Island would be a good family crowd pleaser too.

Not exact matches

Using new chemical analyses of penguin guano extracted in sediment cores from a lake on the island, the researchers unraveled the history of the penguin colony.

«There may not be much we can do to mitigate climate change, but steps could be taken to make sure the Earth's largest colony of Magellanic penguins have enough to eat by creating a marine protected reserve, with regulations on fishing, where penguins forage while raising small chicks.»

Scientists had known of an Adélie penguin colony (Pygoscelis adeliae) in these Danger Islands, but satellite images revealed more guano on the rocky islands...

Both findings suggest that the penguins are less stable with all the added weight — teetering more dramatically, like a person carrying a heavy box — and may explain past observations that heavier birds are more likely to take a tumble on their trek to the breeding colony, the team reports today in PLOS ONE.

Scientists studying Antarctic penguin populations have recently noticed a trend in their numbers: While Ross Sea colonies like this one have grown, colonies on the Antarctic peninsula have shrunk.

The planet as a whole has heated up by about 1.3 °F since 1900, but on the peninsula, it has shot up by a whopping 5 ° in just 50 years, forcing massive ice shelves to disintegrate and penguin colonies to collapse.

If you want to get up close with the country's wildlife, check out the penguin colony at Boulders Beach, or head out to the bush on one of the many safaris that start in town.

Finally, there's the extremes of the sub-Antarctic on Macquarie Island, with huge colonies of colourful king penguins and enormous elephant seals.As

After lunch, visit the naval village of Simonstown and walk amid a colony of penguins on Boulders Beach.

There is also plenty on the shoreline with wild kangaroos, many native bird species and little penguin colonies.

Where else could you sunbathe on a sweltering beach in the company of a colony of mischievous penguins.

There aren't many places where you can paddle in a boat amongst penguins, and I wouldn't for a second suggest that you miss out on Boulder's Beach and its colony of African Penguins, but there are other notable wildlife encounters around Capenguins, and I wouldn't for a second suggest that you miss out on Boulder's Beach and its colony of African Penguins, but there are other notable wildlife encounters around CaPenguins, but there are other notable wildlife encounters around Cape Town.

This is especially the case for African penguins, which have shown significant declines in recent years and have been reduced to a handful of breeding colonies on islands off the coast of South Africa and Namibia.

This unique piece of coastline is renowned for its visiting whales and penguin colony situated on Granite Island.

Below Lakeside, the Zandvlei Lake offers a number of activities - yachting, windsurfing and canoeing - and there are glorious beaches within moments of Lakeside - Muizenberg and Boulders, home to one of Africa's few land - based penguin colonies, provide some wonderful swimming opportunities - whilst Clifton, on the Atlantic side of the peninsular, offers wonderful people - watching opportunities when not swimming or sunbathing.

From taking excursions to spot humpback whales and leopard seals, to hikes with panoramic glacial views, to visiting a chinstrap penguin colony, embarking on this epic adventure will create memories for a lifetime.

The sea is warmer on this side of the peninsula and we are close to Cape Point, Boulders Beach penguin colony, Kalk Bay, Noordhoek and several good golf courses.

Wildlife lovers are in for a particular treat, with tours offering the chance to spot the «Big Five» on a guided game drive, as well as a visit to the famous Boulder's Beach, a picture perfect stretch of soft white sand and clear blue water with its very own colony of African penguins.

Join us on our express bus trip to Phillip Island to witness the colony of Little Penguins arrive for their nightly beach crossing.

Phillip Island on Victoria's South Coast, is home to a colony of around 32,000 Little Penguins.

For a seriously cute factor, you can get up close and personal with a colony of African Penguins that lives on Cape Town's Boulders Beach.

Returning along the Indian Ocean, visit the unique penguin colonies at Boulders beach, often a highlight of your time in Cape Town, and meander through the historic naval base of Simonstown and onto Kirstenbosch Botanical gardens, surely be some of the finest gardens in Africa, nestling on the lower slopes of Table Mountain.

Visit a little penguin colony, look for other nocturnal species — Tammar wallabies, Brush Tailed possums, Western Grey kangaroos, with the possibility of other more elusive night creatures such as Boobook or Barn Owls, Stone Curlews or even an echidna out on a night excursion.

For a Cape Town beach with a unique twist head to Boulders Beach; its soft sand and slightly warmer sea (Boulders is on the Indian Ocean's False Bay coastline) are home to a large colony of endangered African penguins.

On this delightful expedition exploring this seldom - visited corner of the planet, encounter South Georgia's wildlife including fur seals, elephant seals, and massive colonies of the colorful king penguins.

An albino penguin was said to inhabit the fringes of the colony of its fellow creatures on this island.

In tracking vessel movements, Greenpeace noticed «a pattern of fishing activity increasingly close to shore and in the immediate vicinity of penguin colonies, which depend on krill.»

Also, many of the colonies where counts do exist were last counted several decades ago, while other counts rely on estimates from late in the breeding season... These concerns over the lack of a baseline population figure for the species have led to the suggestion that emperor penguins should be re-classified by the IUCN from «of least concern'to «data deficient»»

From 1983 through 2010, researchers based at the University of Washington in Seattle monitored a colony of roughly 400,000 Magellanic penguins living halfway up the coast of Argentina on a peninsula called Punta Tombo.

- Penguin colonies are a hive of activity, with parents finding as much food as possible for their young, fending off giant Skua birds that prey on baby penguins.

Faced with this crisis situation, and working with researchers and the South African fish industries, the South African governmental agency overseeing fisheries (Marine and Coastal Management) closed to fishing in January 2009 a 20 - km radius ocean area around the largest African penguin colony (on the island of St Croix, Algoa Bay).

Back in 2009, we reported on a colony of fairy penguins on Warrnambool's Middle Island off the south coast of Australia that had earned the aid of two Maremmas, an Italian breed of sheepdog that bonds with the flock or herd of animals it is protecting.