Sentences with word «tern»

Biologists say oil has smeared at least 300 to 400 pelicans and hundreds of terns in the largest seabird nesting area along the Louisiana coast — marking a sharp escalation in wildlife harmed by BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill...

When I want to sit down and really read, I use paper formats, which are still by far the best in terns of resolution, color and ease of use.

Popponesset Spit in Mashpee, had significant staging ac - tivity by Least Terns in 2013, but no nesting.

44,000 Average distance, in miles, traveled each year by Arctic terns as they make the round - trip between their summer breeding grounds in Greenland and Iceland and their winter home in Antarctica.

Forbush and fellow ornithologists G. K. Noble and Howard H. Cleaves in 1913 - 1914 failed to identify the behavior of herring gulls and black - backed gulls when they discovered the dismembered remains of hundreds of thousands of roseate terns on Muskeget Island, off Nantucket.

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In one study, more than 90 per cent of a group of Caspian terns which could not return to their previous nest sites ended up with new mates.

Together with colleagues Maren Rebke from Avitec Research and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany and Peter H. Becker from the Institute of Avian Research «Vogelwarte Helgoland» in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, they have developed a statistical model to analyze the long - term study on common terns in Lake Bant in Wilhelmshaven led by Prof. Becker.

They matched historical reports from 1960 to 1980 of wrecked (that is, dead) sooty terns with tropical storms and hurricanes.

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Ecologically a close match to the larger Royal Tern, this chiefly marine species is at home on barrier beaches and in back bays along southern shores.

Walking up the forest trails to the top of the island of Aride we were rewarded by looking down on the Great Frigate Birds trying to steal food from the delicate and beautiful Fairy Terns as they were returning to their nests.

The Brave Tern used its 800 - ton crane to assemble the various components during the month - long construction period.

The Coastal Waterbird Pro-gram successfully attracted nesting terns with decoys to Lovells Island for the second con - secutive season.

You can also read her interest about you either she is looking for sex or for the long tern relationship.

Snowy plovers and least terns nest on the beach.

We are pleased to invite you to view original artwork created by some of Mass Audubon's special supporters — Leadership Friends, Tern Society members, Governance, Life Members, and Endowment Fund Benefactors.

The team tagged 107 Laysan and 108 black - footed albatrosses at Tern Island in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, also home to thousands of seabirds, monk seals and green sea turtles.

Sandwich Terns occur well beyond the U.S. border, and their best hope may reside in tropical habitats outside the model area.

It has the largest breeding colony of crested terns in the world and a large number of vulnerable olive ridley turtle.

The new Tern GSD looks to be a perfect blend of electric and cargo bikes, as it can carry several passengers & a total of about 400 pounds, without being any longer than a standard bike.

LinCA, I can talk about an arctic tern flying in from alaska as well.

This approach, called Plan 2014, will increase wet meadow acreage by 40 percent, northern pike populations by 39 percent, and black tern populations by 16 percent.

The roseate tern population doubled in the next five years, and is now higher than at any time since 1920.

To find out, behavioral ecologist David Shealer, now of Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, in 1995 began observing roseate terns feeding on 4.5 - acre Falkner Island in Long Island Sound.

After the hike, you can go kayaking or take a panga ride to see a large number of blue - footed boobies perched on the cliff ledges, as well as marine iguanas, penguins, brown pelicans, brown noddy terns and swallow - tailed gulls.

We may also see the Antipodes subspecies of the New Zealand Pipit, and with half the world population of Erect - crested Penguins here, we should encounter one or two as well as Antarctic Terns and Kelp Gulls.

The non-native ironwood trees kill albatross that get tangled in the branches, and white terns lay their eggs in the branches where they too often roll off and are crushed.

Jan Dubuisson heads up the least - tern sanctuary for an Audubon Society chapter in Gulfport, Miss..

This is a real - life Crested Tern colony — the species of seabird that was replicated in the experiment.

For some birds, better the devil you know: Common terns stay with the same partner for life even though they have poor breeding success.»

The University of Minnesota's Annie Bracey and her colleagues attached geolocators — small, harmless devices that record a bird's location over time based on day length — to 106 terns from breeding colonies in Manitoba, Ontario, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and New York.

You'll see Inca terns, with elegant red tufts on their cheeks, and, deep in the sea caves, Humboldt penguins.

White - fronted terns can also be seen around the bays.

The island is one of two known active breeding colonies of elegant tern in Mexico.

Wallace said that three birds have been seen on Kure Atoll, five on Midway Island, one on Laysan Island, and one on Tern Island....

(Arctic terns make the longest journey of all animals, flying some 40,000 km each year.)

One possibility is those fish are more vulnerable to birds like terns and cormorants, since steelhead swim closer to the surface than Chinook salmon.

This discovery of Caspian terns breeding above the Arctic Circle in the Chukchi Sea is nearly 1,000 miles farther north than previously recorded — a strikingly large jump in the range of nesting for this (or any) species.

Belongil Creek harbours a colony of rare Little Terns, and care must be taken not to disturb them in any way.

There is enough here for you to find a career provided our pro tern political leaders will transform themselves into statesmen, encourage indigenous research, inhibit consumerist hi - tech, and put your talent to developmental projects based on appropriate technology, not multinational gluttony.

This is the short - tern political objective.

«In addition, each of them receives a benefit package that includes 100 % paid health insurance, short term and long tern disability insurance and a life insurance policy for free, two weeks paid vacation, plus 8 paid personal or sick days and 50 cents on a dollar matching contribution to a retirement plan.

Sooty terns migrate south from southern Florida and back again.

From the last living Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit to least tern chicks only a few hours old (that's them, above) see how stark backgrounds and careful shots can result in a whole new way to see the world.

The results show important migratory staging areas in the inland U.S. and along the Gulf of Mexico — a surprise, since it was previously thought that most Common Terns head for the Atlantic coast before continuing south.