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The small seabirds spend most of their time at sea. Their range stretches all along the Pacific coast, from Mexico through Canada. Both parents incubate a single egg.
Hundreds of a small, blue-footed seabird called the Cassin’s auklet have been washing up dead on Northwest beaches. So far, scientists don’t know exactly why. THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR: ...
The small seabirds flock in ocean waters between Siberia and Alaska. They nest in colonies on rocky coasts of remote islands. And each spring, they hold courtship displays that resemble rowdy, ...
Seeing Seabirds Is A Twitcher's Rare Treat Every year thousands of storm petrels summer on the remote islands to the north of Scotland. The arduous journey to see the small seabirds demands more ...
Small offshore oil spills put seabirds at risk Industry self-monitoring is failing, say researchers Date: May 26, 2016 Source: York University Summary: ...
In the fall of 2015, two years into a heatwave in the Pacific Ocean colloquially known as “the Blob,” an unusually large influx of common murres, a small northern seabird, began to wash ashore ...
The small seabird, which weighs about 2 pounds, must eat 56% of its body mass each day to survive – a daily diet of about 60 to 120 high-fat forage fish, including sardines, herring and capelin.
A recent study published by Current Biology, "Oceanic Seabirds Chase Tropical Cyclones," found that certain birds tend to follow along the wakes of, and even fly through, tropical storms as a form ...
Seabirds are becoming smaller, lighter and suffering from a litany of health problems after ingesting the plastic that litters the world’s oceans, a study has found.
It had always been thought that the Mediterranean population of the European storm petrel -- the smallest seabird in the Mediterranean -- spent the year in this sea and that only a small part of ...
LACEY — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says it will review the protected status of the marbled murrelet in response to a petition from the timber industry and others.