Sentences with phrase «roseate terns»

Michael Fry, conservation advocacy director for the American Bird Conservancy, said that the project could «reduce prime offshore sea - duck foraging habitat» and that data suggest «that loons will likely abandon the area for years to come, and there may be significant impacts to endangered roseate terns, which breed in nearby Buzzards Bay and feed in Nantucket Sound.»

Bald and Golden Eagles are protected under both MBTA and BGEPA, and many species listed under the ESA are also protected under the MBTA, such as Whooping Cranes, California Condors, Least Terns, Kirtland's Warblers, Northern Aplomado Falcons, Roseate Terns, and Piping Plovers.

Egg hunting in the 17th and 18th centuries, followed by plume hunting in the mid-19th century, had pushed roseate terns to the brink of extinction, but after a brief recovery in the early 20th century, their numbers again crashed.

That the gulls were killing the terns was belatedly recognized about 80 years later, by which time roseate terns were again almost lost.

But it's different for endangered seabirds called roseate terns, according to research presented here on 7 August at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America.

It's a former military base used mainly to study the common and roseate terns that nest there every summer.

Her formative years as an ornithologist were spent on Great Gull Island, NY, home to the largest colonies of Common and Roseate Terns in the North Atlantic.

The awardee is Carolyn Mostello, a coastal waterbird specialist for the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife (Mass Wildlife) who has devoted her career to restoring populations of federally endangered roseate terns and other island nesting species in Buzzards Bay.

CWP partners with the Canadian Wildlife Service at Sable Island, Nova Scotia, to study post-breeding roseate terns.

The magnificent beaches of the Cape Cod National Seashore provide important nesting and migration habitat for the threatened piping plover and endangered roseate tern along with other species.

The endangered roseate tern has nested on the island and uses foraging habitats near the island to prepare for migration.

Coastal Waterbird Program (CWP) staff tries to discover the unknown wintering range of the roseate tern believed to be in Guyana and Brazil.

In Florida, endangered species that are seriously impacted by hunting cats include Key Largo cotton mouse, Key Largo woodrat, Lower Florida Keys marsh rabbit, Choctawhatchee beach mouse, Perdido Key beach mouse, green sea turtle, roseate tern, least tern and the Florida scrub jay.

In Florida, domestic cats have been recognized as predators and a serious threat to the Key Largo cotton mouse, rice rat, Key Largo woodrat, Lower Keys marsh rabbit, Choctawhatchee beach mouse, Perdido Key beach mouse, Anastasia Island beach mouse, Southeastern beach mouse, green sea turtle, roseate tern, least tern, and Florida scrub - jay, all federal listed species.

Not exact matches

The boat first crosses through mangrove channels at the southern tip of Ambergris Caye offering opportunities for sighting Belted Kingfishers, Great White Herons, Little Blue Herons, Great Blue Herons, Roseate Spoonbills, Black - Necked Stilts, as well as the common occurrence of Brown Pelicans, Frigates, Cormorants, Ospreys, Plovers, Pipers and Terns.

This beautiful island is sanctuary to about 152 birds, including large nesting colonies of brown pelicans and magnificent frigate birds, along with roseate spoonbills, double - crested cormorants, herons, egrets, terns, kingfishers, and even the occasional flamingo.

Examples of some commonly seen wildlife you might encounter include: Great Blue Herons, Atlantic Bottle - nose Dolphin, Manatees, Snowy Egrets, White Ibis, Roseate Spoonbills, Anhingas, Brown Pelicans, Double Crested Cormorants, Ospreys, Bald Eagles, Least Terns, Southern Stingrays and much more!

From the brown pelican and Rufous - bellied Chachalaca to the Neotropic Cormorant, the Anhinga, the Great Egret, Tricolored Heron, White - Faced Ibis, Roseate Spoonbill, Wood Stork, and many, many types of Terns, Gulls, Woodpeckers, Swallows, and Doves, if you are a bird lover, then San Blas Riviera Nayarit Mexico is where you will want to vacation!