Sentences with phrase «seabirds in»

Seabirds in flight across a vivid blue wooden hull make a beautiful sculptural display in this coastal hallway.

«If these consents and their predicted impacts are realised, there is little doubt these would be amongst the most damaging offshore wind farms for seabirds in the world.»

The resulting change in availability of prey has in turn caused dramatic declines in the numbers of predatory seabirds in west coast colonies and corresponding increases in the size of those colonies on the south and east coast over the same period [58].

Nature lovers should visit beautiful Isla Contoy, considered to be the most important nesting place for seabirds in the Mexican Caribbean, and home to over 150 different species.

Entanglements of marine mammals and seabirds in central California and the north - west coast of the United States 2001 - 2005.

Learn more about the region at the visitor center or by chatting with the rangers, and expect to see wildlife, from harbor seals, seabirds in the warmer months and migrating gray whales.

This brings a high concentration of fish, which attracts seabirds in high numbers.

San Miguel Island and its associated islets support one - third of the breeding seabirds in the Channel Islands.

Visit the stunning rock formation of Remarkable Rocks and take in awesome Admirals Arch — a haven for New Zealand fur seals and soaring seabirds in a natural ocean environment.

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

The weather can impact on the choices you have but with tours circumnavigating Bressay, you have a perfect chance to view lighthouses, scenic views and the best seabirds in the whole of Scotland.

This information is of fundamental importance, as polar cod are a major source of food for seals, whales and seabirds in the Arctic.

Seabirds in British Columbia's Salish Sea changed their diet over the past 47 years, switching from fish that live relatively close to the surface, to bottom fish.

As a bird habitat, Skellig Michael is home to a large population of gannets — 27,000 thousand pairs — as well as the storm petrel, the smallest seabird in Europe.

Not exact matches

This ready and seemingly inexhaustible supply of phosphorus, in the form of guano phosphate (seabird droppings), dramatically increased Australian crop yields, and agricultural productivity following the Second World War.

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

Started in 2011, the S4 program is an inspiring citizen science program that monitors seabirds off the coast of Massachusetts.

The resulting data is used to compare relative abundance of seabirds over time — to help us understand populations within the sanctuary and their possible impacts on local ecosystems and as a barometer for other changes in the environment.

Coastal marine waters across the street from the sanctuary where loons, grebes, ducks, and seabirds often occur in variety and abundance during the winter.

For the fourth time, Shedd Aquarium, a leader in animal care and conservation, has teamed up with the South African Foundation for the Conservation of Costal Birds, SANCCOB, a non-profit that works to reverse the decline of seabird populations through the rescue, rehabilitation and release of ill, injured, abandoned and oiled seabirds.

SCARRED landscapes, billowing smoke, seabirds writhing in liquorice gloop: there's no denying fossil fuels have an image problem.

The researchers are continuing to study more bluefin tissue samples to see if elevated radiation levels persist, and are also looking into radiation levels in other long distance migratory species including sea turtles, sharks and seabirds.

Research in families of wild seabirds reveals for the first time how parasite infection in some can have a serious effect on how well their relatives do.

Seabirds are notorious for nesting in inaccessible places, frustrating efforts to monitor populations.

The crab inched towards a common seabird called a red - footed booby (Sula sula), which was asleep in a nest near ground level.

«Tracking data reveal the secret lives of marine animals: Seals, whales, sharks, turtles, seabirds, and other marine vertebrates show similar patterns of movement in marine environments.»

A scientist investigating coconut crabs in a remote Indian Ocean archipelago found evidence that the crabs, the world's largest terrestrial invertebrates, make terrifying sneak attacks on seabirds.

In a bid to buoy flagging seabird populations, park biologists eradicate rats from islands in British ColumbIn a bid to buoy flagging seabird populations, park biologists eradicate rats from islands in British Columbin British Columbia

Published today in the journal Scientific Reports, the research found that drones are much more precise at monitoring the size of seabird colonies in tropical and polar environments than more traditional ground counts.

Scientists conducting fieldwork in the region are reporting massive chick die - offs and nests with abandoned eggs, reports National Geographic's Winged Warnings series, which lays out the many threats facing the island's seabirds: warming oceans, earlier thaws, changing ocean chemistry and food webs, and increasing levels of ocean pollutants from PCBs to mercury.

Seabirds may have unknowing allies in their hunt for fish.

Heleno Armando da Silva, director of the Fernando de Noronha national marine park, says the threat from the tejus has driven many seabirds to nest in trees, which they would not normally do.

This might appear to be good news, but it is due to a decline in fish stocks near the surface which has forced seabirds to feed in areas where there are more bacteria (known as sulfate - reducing bacteria) which control the levels of mercury.

The so - called «walls of death» drift nets used in the Pacific, which can sometimes extend for 50 kilometres, inadvertently catch large numbers of whales, seabirds and unwanted fish.

About one - fifth of the time, the birds altered their ascent to go after young fish hiding among the jellyfish, the seabird specialist and his colleagues report online in Biology Letters.

By using isotopic tracers called stable isotopes, researchers showed that seabirds feeding in areas rich in sulfate (a chemical that is an important food for sulfate - reducing bacteria that help break down organic matter) had high levels of mercury.

When an oil tanker runs aground, the impact is immediately obvious: seabirds soaked in petroleum, sick marine mammals, and dead fish washed ashore by the bushel.

They documented a decline in mercury levels for several seabird species over 47 years.

Researchers have discovered that levels of mercury in seabirds off the coast of British Columbia have remained relatively stable over the past 50 years.

In fact, the majority of the group's album covers are avian - themed, and the band's name itself refers to a seabird with especially long wings.

Ryan's research focuses on algal blooms, the rapid and dense growths of plankton that can starve marine organisms of oxygen and cause hypothermia in seabirds.

Free - floating Antarctic icebergs significantly change the marine ecosystems directly around them by hosting land - based matter, chlorophyll, krill and seabirds, according to a report in this week's Science.

And in both Alaska and California, low - level flights have startled nesting seabirds so much that they have knocked hundreds of eggs and chicks out of their nests, says a report released last week.

These seabirds live in a harsh environment and often face stress in the form of food shortages and poor weather conditions.

Just like when you're in a crowd in New York and everyone is exactly the same distance apart, that's the way seabird colonies are: Every bird is just far enough away from its neighbor that it can't reach it with its beak.

To see how bird family members interact with each other in stressful situations, researchers from Vetmeduni Vienna and the University of Gdansk, Poland, studied parent - offspring interactions in a long - lived seabird, the little auk (Alle alle).

And now you find them in places that are still more or less unchanged from that time — with tussock grass (Poa flabellata is the species) and these seabirds and high winds and cliffs and oceans.

Polar cod fulfil a key role in the Arctic food web, as they are a major source of food for seals, whales and seabirds alike.

The litter floating in the Arctic is particularly detrimental to seabirds, which feed at the sea surface.

By analyzing 130 years of seabird feathers, researchers determined that food webs are losing complexity in the Pacific — meaning less - resilient ecosystems.