Sentences with phrase «populations of albatrosses»
«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.
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It is home to grey - headed albatrosses, northern giant petrels, white chinned petrels, Antarctic prions, half of the entire population of macaroni penguins and most of the planet's population of the South Georgia blue - eyed shag.
Understanding population dynamics is crucial for the conservation of long - lived species like albatrosses, but collecting data on albatrosses before they reach adulthood and begin to breed is challenging.
A new study from The Condor: Ornithological Applications provides the first direct estimates of the population size and annual survival of young birds in Oahu's Laysan Albatross population, giving important new insights into the demographics of these «prebreeders.»
This poster by Peter Hodgson highlights the crux of BirdLife International's Albatross campaign — populations are nearing extinction because of deaths caused when the birds accidentally eat fishing hooks left in bait or discarded after fishing trips.
Even if the global community surmounted these barriers of gross inequity, and then shrugged off the albatross of rising populations, stabilising global emissions would not prevent disruption of the climate.
Doing everything possible to ensure high numbers of nesting Laysan albatross is key to bringing their population back.
This is an incredible loss, especially since the Laysan albatross is a threatened species and about 70 % of the world's population nests on Midway Atoll.
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.
Those successes include the monumental task of eradicating invasive species, establishing a «backup» population of Laysan Teal, a critically endangered species of duck, bringing the threatened Short - Tailed Albatross back to the island through years of playing sound recordings and setting up decoys and conducting scientific research from monitoring carbon dioxide levels in a a world - wide study to analyzing marine debris washed up on the beaches to understand marine pollution.
About 70 percent of the world's population of Laysan albatrosses nests on Midway Atoll.
Their daily tasks include monitoring the health of the albatross populations, keeping the Laysan Teal habitat safe from botulism, battling the invasive weeds and planting native plants, cleaning beaches and much, much more.
The short - tailed albatross whose adult population number only about 3,000 were till recently found only on the Japanese islands of Kure Atoll and on Midway Atoll.