Sentences with phrase «winter feeding grounds»

Critically endangered western gray whales migrate into their summer feeding grounds near Sahkalin Island, Russia in late May or early June and return to their winter feeding grounds in the South China Sea in late autumn.

Patchi (voiced by Justin Long) and Alex (voiced by John Leguizamo) migrate to the southern winter feeding grounds.

The fall season was ending and winter was quickly approaching, so Patchi's father gave out a roar for the herd to migrate south to the winter feeding grounds.

After migrating hundreds of miles from their winter feeding grounds, they marched off the ice in the austral spring and — even though their nesting territories were concealed under snow — headed to the very colonies where many were hatched or had raised chicks before.

Though it looks chaotic at first glance, this migration map, which shows the electronic tracks of 19 shearwaters created by UC Santa Cruz biologist Scott Shaffer in 2005, color - codes the various legs of their trek: light - blue lines track the birds during breeding season, yellow lines represent the northward journey, and orange lines show the winter feeding grounds and southward return.

Not exact matches

Researchers at the Cascadia Research Collective in Olympia, Washington, tracked seven whales — which they recognized by the markings on their tail flukes — from their summer feeding grounds in the Antarctic Ocean to their winter breeding grounds off the Pacific coast of Central America.

Their feeding grounds move steadily north, and evidence suggests some even spend the winter there.

Humpback whales migrate from their warm, winter breeding grounds off the coast of Central America to feed in the nutrient - rich waters of the Monterey Bay throughout the spring, summer and fall.

Then in late winter and early spring, the gray whales and their calves migrate back up to their feeding grounds in the Arctic.

During the winter pacific gray whales migrate between summer feeding grounds in Alaska and breeding areas in Baja, Mexico, passing through the Santa Barbara Channel.

Each winter and spring, their spectacular migration between northern feeding grounds and southern nursery areas offers amazing opportunities for whale watchers along the west coast.

This whale population, hunted nearly to extinction generations ago, is slowly recovering, with an estimated 450 right whales dividing their time between winter calving areas off the southeastern United States and summer feeding grounds from New England north.

Large numbers of snow geese, varying each year from 15,000 to more than 300,000 birds, feed on the Arctic Refuge coastal tundra for three to four weeks each fall, on their way from nesting grounds on Banks Island in Canada to wintering grounds primarily in California's Central Valley.

Thus, to whelp in April and still remain for over shallow feeding grounds, seals are coincidentally surrounded by extensive winter sea ice.

Each winter bearded seals in the Pacific sector migrate southward as winter ice prevents access to their favored feeding grounds.