Sentences with phrase «providing feeding grounds»

Port Phillip Bay sprawls over 750 square miles, providing feeding grounds for whales and sheltering coastlines for brine - scented beach towns.

These mangroves are nurseries for juveniles of many reef fishes; they also provide feeding grounds and introduce fixed nitrogen and organic detritus into the reef system.

Plentiful sponges and corals provide feeding grounds to endangered animals including the green sea turtle.

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Thousands of ponds are scattered like mirrors across Alaska's coastal plain, providing nesting and feeding grounds for waterfowl.

The plankton, in turn, attracts a vast array of marine life, providing feeding as well as spawning grounds for myriad pelagic species, including some that have migrated across wide oceanic areas.

Proper care is more than just feeding and providing shelter for an animal; it also includes medical care, housing, flea / tick / heartworm prevention, grounds upkeep, etc..

Everyone gets plenty of love and attention from Sher, doting sanctuary Vice President Harriette Sackler and the sanctuary's invaluable army of over 55 devoted volunteers, who help with daily tasks including feeding and administering medications; bathing and grooming; cleaning and laundering; sanctuary and grounds maintenance, and providing exercise and playtime.

These habitats provide nursery and feeding grounds for many commercially valuable species.

Shallow (2 - 6 feet) and with a whiter than normal sand bottom, these tarpon feeding grounds stretch for over fifty miles and provide the dining room for almost unbelievable numbers of tarpon.

The Channel Islands provide essential nesting and feeding grounds for approximately 99 percent of seabirds that nest in southern California.

It provides breeding and feeding grounds for at least twenty - five endangered or threatened species; thirty - six marine mammal species, including blue, gray, and humpback whales, harbor seals, elephant seals, Pacific white - sided dolphins, and one of the southernmost U.S. populations of threatened Steller sea lions; over a quarter - million breeding seabirds; and one of the most significant white shark populations on the planet.

Shallow (2 - 6 feet) and with a whiter than normal sand bottom, these tarpon feeding grounds stretch for over fifty miles and provide the dining room for an almost unbelievable numbers of tarpon.

These fragile and endangered coral reefs act as key feeding and breeding grounds for a myriad of marine life and provide essential shoreline protection.

Although coral reefs compose less than 4 % of the ocean's surface, they provide shelter and feeding grounds for an astonishing 25 % of all marine life species.

The Belize Barrier Reef is a thriving ecosystem home to dozens of species of coral that provide shelter and feeding grounds for a cornucopia of marine life, including hundreds of species of fish, three species of saltwater turtles, dolphins, rays, seahorses, manatees, whale sharks, and jellyfish.

The slopes of this canyon provide very productive waters and feeding grounds for marine mammals, so we are in the perfect position to find whales quickly.

In addition, Belize's network of rivers and lagoons which is protected in part by the reef provides fertile feeding grounds and shelter for these amazing mammals.

Healthy coastal habitats — such as sand dunes and tidal marshes — can shield communities from storm surges while also providing feeding and nursing grounds for wildlife.

Grow a wildflower meadow Not only are wildflowers beautiful to look at, they're extremely important for our native wildlife, providing hunting and feeding grounds for small mammals such as wood mice, voles and shrews.