Sentences with phrase «penguin colony at»

One day, take a private excursion along the scenic coastal road to the Cape Peninsula and visit the Cape of Good Hope, the African penguin colony at Boulders Beach, an ostrich farm, and quaint seaside towns.

Other than the attraction of the beach there is the Harold Porter National Botanical Garden and an African penguin colony at Stoney Point.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Boersma and Rebstock looked at the cause of every recorded chick mortality in an Argentinian colony of Magellanic penguins, over a nearly 30 - year period, and compared these with changes in temperature and precipitation over the same time.

Climate change is killing penguin chicks from the world's largest colony of Magellanic penguins, not just indirectly — by depriving them of food, as has been repeatedly documented for these and other seabirds — but directly as a result of drenching rainstorms and, at other times, heat, according to new findings from the University of Washington.

Another, at Cape Adare in the north, is the largest active Adélie penguin colony in Antarctica; it is home to more than 150,000 nests and is 2,000 years old.

Now Steve Emslie, a marine ornithologist at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, has developed an ingenious method of tracking climate change in the Antarctic: He has excavated and carbon - dated 45,000 years» worth of Adélie penguin poop, skin, bones, feathers, and eggshells from colonies preserved in Antarctica's frigid climate.

We estimated the breeding population of emperor penguins at each colony during 2009 and provide a population estimate of ∼ 238,000 breeding pairs (compared with the last previously published count of 135,000 — 175,000 pairs).

Things to do: Marvel at whimsical penguins go about their business at the many colonies nearby.

The book is aimed at a wide audience from young adults, adult readers, bird enthusiasts, and tourists that visit the Penguin colony of Boulders or have an interest in penguins.

Both penguins were released by SANCCOB at the Boulders penguin colony and now form part of the local penguin population.

Seven nights cruising through Galápagos National Park aboard Xavier, Come face - to - face with large colonies of blue - footed boobies and Galápagos penguins, Get to know the ecology of the Galápagos at...

A host of unique Andean wildlife is at home here, too, from condors and guanacos to an island colony of squawking penguins.

As dusk falls, get ready for the main event at Summerland Beach, as Victoria's largest colony of little penguins return home from a day of fishing at sea, waddling their way up the sands to their burrows.

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Since 2011 the colony of 160,000 penguins has shrunk to just 10,000, according to research carried out by the Climate Change Research Centre at Australia's University of New South Wales.

Robertson, G. et al (2014) Long - term trends in the population size and breeding success of emperor penguins at the Taylor Glacier colony, Antarctica.

«If sea ice declines at the rates projected by the IPCC climate models, and continues to influence emperor penguins as it did in the second half of the 20th century in Terre Adélie, at least two - thirds of the colonies are projected to have declined by greater than 50 % from their current size by 2100,» Dr Jenouvrier said.

The CBD wrote, «The Emperor colony at Terre Adelie in East Antarctica» featured in the Academy Award - winning French documentary, March of the Penguins» plummeted by more than 50 % in the late 1970s during a warm period with little sea ice cover, when adults died en masse.

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.

But there is only sporadic, uncoordinated monitoring of the 43 different penguin colonies that make up most of the global penguin population.Just like polar bears, penguins are a high profile species at the mercy of warming poles.