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Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Invasive, non-native species plant and animal species as well as island ecosystem degradation have affected seabird nesting habitat quality on many of the California Islands which imposes threats to population growth and recovery. Seabirds are important throughout the archipelago and every island and most offshore rocks provide critical breeding and roosting habitat. Recent seabird habitat restoration work has been supported by several restoration...
Series
BirdLife conservation volume no. 1
Publisher
Birdlife International
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 1060L
Language
English
Description
The story of a nesting pair of murrelets who fly inland from their home in the Pacific Ocean to the Douglas-fir tree area of California where an egg is laid. After the egg is hatched the parents fly back and forth to the ocean bring fish for the young bird to eat. And finally when the fledgling leaves the nest and heads to the ocean.
28) Full circle
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A film that celebrates one woman's triumph in conservation: the Great Gull Island Project, Helen Hays' 50-year quest to save two species of threatened seabirds.
32) What the sea saw
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A lyrical introduction to the sea, its inhabitants, and its role in the world around it. Includes facts about the ecosystems of oceans and shorelines.
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
"The African Penguin population is critically low, due to various factors including climate change. Scientists and volunteers with a South African organization are helping to rescue these endangered birds by rearing abandoned chicks."--
Despite South African government efforts to protect the penguin colonies and their ocean fish supply, young penguins still struggle to survive. Fuzzy chicks waiting for food in open nests may overheat in the sun or...
34) Foraging dynamics of seabirds in the Eastern tropical pacific ocean: Studies in Avian Biology no. 35
Author
Series
Studies in avian biology volume no. 35
Publisher
Cooper Ornithological Society
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English