Sentences with phrase «sooty terns»

If you're a bird watcher, you'll love spotting the hundreds of thousands of sooty terns, masked booby, brown noddy, and frigate birds that nest and migrate through the Dry Tortugas; a special place that is the only North American nesting ground for some of these species.

In fact, Kirkpatrick and Rauzon found that more than 90 percent of the diet of free - roaming cats on Jarvis Island and Howland Island was made up of Sooty Terns, Wedge - tailed Shearwaters, and Brown Noddies — each of which is listed as a species of Least Concern.

Sooty terns that nest in the Dry Tortugas National Park, west of Key West, Fla., migrate along a path that often crosses tropical storms and hurricanes, scientists have found.

In some years, hurricanes may take out a small portion of the sooty tern population, but it doesn't appear to be enough to cause big declines.

That's the handiwork of another MacCready who happens to inhabit the same body: the sky's - the - limit inventor who parlayed a preternatural talent with model planes into Da Vinci - like human - and solar - powered vehicles that shattered the world's notion of the limitations of such machines, the passionate naturalist who gets teary - eyed talking about the monarch butterfly and the sooty tern, the easygoing fellow who accessorizes his blazer, tie, and gray slacks outfit with black sneakers.

I can't thank Shelley enough for all her good work preparing my novel, Sooty Tern, for the premium catalog at Smashwords.

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The humpbacks were not the only species in town for the anchovy fest; sea lions, common dolphins, thousands of sooty shearwaters (that made their way here from New Zealand), elegant terns and many other bird species are here to dine on the small schooling fish, with the common murres being a particular favorite as fathers and their chicks loudly call out to each other.

By thirty - five miles out, we've already seen three whale species, dozens of sharks, and over twenty bird species: Fork - tailed Storm - Petrels, Tufted Puffins, Sooty Shearwaters, Arctic Terns.