Sentences with phrase «sea lion numbers»

Today sea lion numbers are slowly increasing and all offshore islands in Western Australia with sea lion colonies are nature reserves.

«The population has basically come into balance with its environment,» said coauthor Sharon Melin, a research biologist at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center who has tracked sea lion numbers in Southern California's Channel Islands for years.

«California sea lion population rebounded to new highs: Sea lion numbers reflect conditions in California Current through the decades.»

Not exact matches

By May, Pseudo-nitzschia australis numbers had soared, sea lions were convulsing and dying, and water samples contained traces of domoic acid, the alga's deadly neurotoxin.

Estes estimates that before industrial whaling, the amount of food that orcas could find by eating whales was about 60 times greater than what was available from the combined numbers of seals, sea lions, and sea otters.

That suggests that the removal of a limited number of sea lions in such programs is unlikely to affect the population as a whole, Melin said.

We are reasonably certain that killer - whale predation dramatically reduced sea otter numbers in southwestern Alaska, and we know that it could easily account for the seal and sea lion declines.

Large numbers of California sea lion pups have flooded animal rescue centers in Southern California in the past few years.

According to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a record - setting number of sea lion strandings has occurred each month in 2015.

In March of 2015, an unusually high number of sea lions pups were stranded on California beaches during an Unusual Mortality Event (UME), a sad phenomenon that is reaching a record - breaking high.

Steller sea lions are the most common sea lion on Vancouver Island and numbers are estimated close to 25,000 in British Columbia.

We've all seen the photos — record numbers of starving young sea lions, little more than skin and bones, that have washed ashore along the Northern California coast.

San Jose Mercury News Emaciated sea lions found in increasing numbers on California coastline

They saw many species of marine mammals including gray, blue and humpback whales, elephant seals, sea lions and fur seals, as well as countless numbers of Tufted Puffins and Common Murres.

The Marine Mammal Center is treating an unprecedented number of patients this year, as starving sea lion pups are stranding all along the coast of California.

California sea lion crisis has deepened as the number of abandoned, sickly pups continues to increase and the Pacific Ocean becomes warmer.

But most of the record number of seals and sea lions washing up on California's shores and being brought to a regional rescue center are starving.

Los Angeles Times Emaciated sea lion rescued in San Francisco; record numbers wash up in California

The water park also boasts a zoo under the same moniker — Terra Natura is home to a number of species for your kids to gawp at, as well as hosting sea lion shows.

This bay is a good location to spot brown pelicans, golden rays, marine iguanas, herons, lava gulls, frigate birds, Galápagos sea lions, and large numbers of blue - footed boobies, which fish by spectacular plunge diving.

Due to the number of seals and sea lions, great white sharks are frequently spotted patrolling the waters around the island.

the collection of a large number of skin samples from marked individual for DNA extraction and analysis, that should permit a better understanding of the genetic structure of the local population of Sea Lion Island, and a first asessment of the relationships of the Falklands population with other populations of the South Georgia stock

Large numbers of sea lions are found on the beaches in the bay, occasionally hindering peregrination to the two trails leading from the beach.

Especially the late August and September trips as this is when we large numbers of Steller sea lions usually return to the area from their remote breeding rookeries, high numbers of sea birds congregate in the area, and humpback whales become more surface active as they feed on small schooling fish.

Some pinniped species, especially California sea lions and elephant seals, appear to be increasing in abundance while others like harbor seals may be fewer in number around the islands than they were in the past.

Steller sea lions are in the area in very large numbers in spring and fall.

Only half the usual number of sea lion pups were born off the California coast in 2015, Johnson said.

Despite its small size, South Plaza is home to a large number of species, including a large population of sea lions, a healthy population of land iguanas — some of the smallest in the islands, numerous marine iguanas, and cliffs full of nesting seabirds, such as Swallow - tailed Gulls, Red - billed Tropicbirds, Audubon's Shearwaters, Nazca Boobies, and several other species.

A large colony of sea lions, numbering in the hundreds, bask on the banks of Los Islotes, where the real fun begins.

Join guided cruises out of Newport Harbour and Dana Point to explore remarkable marine habitat that's home to huge numbers of whales, dolphins, and sea lions.

The Ballestas Islands are home to a number of animals — including sea lions, seals, and all sorts of marine birds — and are thus a great place to photograph wildlife.

I do hope that the (much - hyped) issue of global sea - level rise and putative recent acceleration will be examined seriously here as a geophysical problem and not be subjected to summary number - crunching by inept blog lions who naively think that simple detrending of highly different tide - gauge records alleviates all issues of establishing a common datum - level.

The spill killed untold numbers of fish, at least five pelicans and a sea lion.

Sea lions and seals, which include Northern elephant seals, Pacific harbor seals, and occasionally Northern fur seals, need care for a number of reasons.