Other seabirds aim for the calmer eye of the storm so as not to get ravaged by its spiral, effectively “eye-riding,” much like their hurricane-hunting human counterparts.
However, the findings could help scientists better gauge the threats facing seabird populations now and in the future.
There is a more robust nutrient flow between the water and the land, thanks to the seabirds, increasing the fish biomass off these healthy islands.
In the height of summer, when they’re filled with seabirds, “It’s just bird cacophony all over the place,” she recalls.
In this place, for reasons that aren’t entirely clear to scientists, seabirds who become lost as they fly along the coast, or across the ocean, congregate.
Operation Seabird began while the storm was still over water.
The boys soon saw the Seabird plowing her way to the landing.
On the night of the shooting one hundred men proceeded to the Pacific street wharf where the Coliah and Seabird were anchored.
The Seabird goes over it like one of her namesakes; she is not taking a teacupful now over her bows.
The Seabird felt the relief from the pressure of the heavy boom to leeward and rose easily and lightly over the waves.
The Seabird passed within a cable's length of the breakers at the northern end of the reef.