Sentences with word «seabird»

However, ongoing studies indicate that DDT continues to persist at higher than expected levels in several species of seabirds nesting on the islands, including cormorants and petrels.

Open to the public, it towers 235 feet above the beach, and hosts flocks of nesting seabirds in the summer.

Coastal islands provide critical nesting, breeding and feeding habitat for endangered seals and provide nesting habitat to the largest population of seabirds in North America.

In some cases, global warming as a consequence of the build - up of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere because of fossil fuel burning has altered the water chemistry and local climate and food supplies for seabird colonies.

Among these cliffs are some of the largest breeding seabird colonies in Europe, including puffins, guillemots, razorbills, kittiwakes, puffins, fulmars, shags and gannets.

Black rats still prey on seabird populations on San Miguel.

It undertakes practical conservation projects, surveys and scientific studies, conducts annual monitoring of seabird populations, rescues wildlife in trouble, publishes guides and information on many aspects of the Falkland Islands environment, and involves islanders of all ages in its activities, including running a WATCH group for children.

Unlike the tsunami, the slow inundation of rising sea levels will be permanent, and could very well cause the extinction of these and many other seabird species.»

The island provides habitat for thousands of nesting seabirds including white - capped noddy terns, bridled terns, black - naped terns and silver gulls.

A solution to the problem of birds as bycatch could not only benefit this threatened bird, but also many other seabird species.

Midway is home to three million breeding seabirds including two - thirds of the world's Laysan Albatross.

The growing abundance of these jelly - feeding gobies now serves to provide sustenance to the predators that formerly feasted on the sardines, such as seabirds, larger fishes and, ultimately, humans.

Midway is home base for many seabird species, from the Bonin petrels pictured above, to Great frigatebirds, Red - footed boobies, Black - footed albatross and more.

The tree - lined canopy of the island is home to thousands of migratory seabirds with the coral sand beaches creating a major offshore nesting area for sea turtles.

Crowded with millions of birds, these rocky outcrops are home to one of the largest seabird colonies in the Northern Hemisphere.

Observe a variety of seabirds at work and marine creatures like the Leafy Sea Dragon in their natural environment.

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

The island is one of the most important seabird nesting sites within the Channel Islands, with 11 nesting species, including western gulls, California brown pelicans, three species of cormorants, three species of storm - petrels, and one of the world's largest colonies of Scripps's murrelets.

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.

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.

And those are either eaten by fish or they can be eaten by seabirds.»

The Guadalupe murrelet (Synthliboramphus hypoleucus) is a small seabird found in the California Current system in the Pacific Ocean.

Mercury levels in seabirds living off the coast of British Columbia have been stable in recent years.

As one of the few centers of large - scale ocean upwelling, our coastline hosts large populations of schooling fish and is a global destination for many species of great whales like the mighty blue whale and migratory seabirds such as the Sooty Shearwater.

The results show that murres «are really at the edge of what a bird can do,» says University of Missouri, St. Louis, seabird ecologist Robert Ricklefs, an author of the paper.

As the mother of an estimated 36 albatrosses, she is a symbol of success in the face of declining seabird numbers worldwide.

Kilauea Point is also the best place to view seabirds such as Red - footed Boobies, Great Frigatebirds, Red - tailed Tropicbirds, and Laysan Albatross.

At Pelican Rocks, snorkelers are joined by diving seabirds feeding on small fish.

We work to make longline fishing safe for marine wildlife, saving seabirds and potentially turtles from becoming bycatch in tuna fisheries.

For more information about seabird restoration visit Seabird Restoration Videos and Montrose Settlement Restoration Program.

Since the removal of the rats, ashy storm - petrels have been recorded nesting on the island for the first time ever and the Cassin's auklet, a small seabird which had been unable to nest on Anacapa Island due to the risk of rat predation, has returned.

The report was prepared by NOAA Fisheries» Northwest Fisheries Science Center, and is part of a larger risk assessment report currently in preparation on the effects of West Coast groundfish fisheries on endangered seabirds, fish, mammals, and turtles.

In addition, local chapters of the Audubon Society occasionally sponsor boats trips around the islands to view seabirds.

Restoring critical seabird habitat on the Channel Islands was the featured topic for the August «From Shore to Sea» lecture by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Annie Little.

Guided canoes up the Umgeni River to sight the giant heron, explore the upper reaches of the mangrove swamps and the river's two islands on which even further seabirds roost is one of the highlights.

ABC has campaigned to end seabird deaths from longlining in U.S. fisheries since the mid-90s.

Day 5 - Wednesday - Genovesa - Prince Phillip's Steps am: Genovesa - Darwin Bay: A coral beach where a 750 mt. trail takes you through more seabird colonies.

It is inhabited by large numbers of pelicans, sea gulls, ospreys and Costa Rica's largest community of boobies, which makes it a very important seabird sanctuary.

With Arctic sea ice melting earlier and earlier, polar bears are being forced to change their diets, scouring dry land for seabird eggs rather than enjoying their typical staple: seals.

As their hunting behavior shifts from ice to land, the polar bears «have progressively arrived earlier and earlier to have access to more eggs,» says biologist Børge Moe, another principal author of the study who works at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research in Kongsfjorden, where seabird egg predation is just beginning to increase.

The river mouth is a breeding ground for seabirds which makes it a wonderful playground for twitchers.

Each year, more than one million seabirds die from ingesting plastic garbage, often in the form of straws.

Collaboration between ecologists and climate researchers in Norway has generated fascinating new insight into how seabirds are affected by climate change.

Scientists have found many species feeding on ocean plastics, from fish living in the deepest ocean trenches to seabirds feeding at the surface.

With 5.5 million sea birds nesting in the monument every year and 14 million residing in it seasonally it is collectively the largest tropical seabird rookery in the world, and includes 99 % of the world's Laysan Albatross (vulnerable) and 98 % of the world's Black - footed Albatross (endangered).

Other local seabirds include tufted puffins, bald eagles and peregrine falcons.

«As a graduate student, it was humbling to study seabirds older than me.

The Center's 2010 notice challenged the failure of the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Navy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Hawaii's Department of Land and Natural Resources to abate and dispose of the lead paint that is harming protected seabirds.

Additional work on Santa Barbara Island includes restoring seabird nesting habitat by removing non-native plants and planting native vegetation.