Sentences with phrase «rare seabird»

Both Santa Barbara and Sutil Island provide nesting habitat for Scripps's murrelets, a rare seabird.

And last week, Whitworth said, researchers came across the first documented nest on Anacapa of a Cassin's auklet, another very rare seabird, similar to the murrelet.

But on May 7, a field biologist studying the rare seabird stumbled upon one.

The island's steep lava rock cliffs incorporate numerous caves and crevices that are particularly important for the increasingly rare seabird Scripps's murrelet (a threatened species known as Xantus's murrelet until 2012).

This species is a rare seabird with a world population of less than 39,000 birds and a very limited breeding distribution, nesting only on the Channel Islands and on islands off the west coast of Baja California, Mexico.

The Short - tailed Albatross or Steller's Albatross is a large rare seabird from the North Pacific.

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Be awed by the abundance and variety of marine mammals: Pacific walrus, northern fur seals, gray, humpback, and sperm whales, sea otters and Steller sea lions; and seabirds from the Aleutians to the Commander Islands including horned and tufted puffins, murres and rare whiskered auklets.

Pursuant to CFR title 36 1.5 (c)- Determination - this restriction action is necessitated for the protection of the islands unique values, ecological systems and protection of breeding populations of marine mammals, endangered species of seabirds, eagles, islands foxes and other unique and rare species of flora and fauna inhabiting the Channel Islands National Park.

Among those found here are Xantus» murrelets, a seabird that nests in crevices in the cliffs, and the Santa Barbara Island live - forever, a rare plant found only on this island.

Located adjacent to The Lodge and the Torrey Pines Golf Course, the Torrey Pines State Reserve has 2,000 magnificent acres of protected rare Torrey Pine trees, miles of unspoiled beaches and a lagoon that is vital to migrating seabirds.

These Islands are spectacular, eroded into numerous arches and caves, which provide shelter for thousands of seas lions and seabirds, some of which are very rare.

Working with the advice of the Marine Conservation Biology Institute, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the Pew Environmental Fund, Bush selected sites that collectively harbor the world's smallest atoll (Rose Atoll - which is home to more than 500 fish species and 97 % of American Samoa's seabirds), several threatened turtle nesting beaches, the deepest ocean canyon in the world (the Mariana Trench, with its otherworldly, undersea volcanoes, acidic thermal vents, liquid sulfur, and incredibly rare life forms), hundreds of species of corals, Hawaiian monk seals, and countless seabirds, rays, sharks, dolphins and whales.