Sentence examples for rookeries of from inspiring English sources

The islands were visited in 1786 by Gavril Pribylov, a Russian sea captain, who discovered the rookeries of the northern fur seals there.

But the "Worst Journey" of the title is the horrific account of a journey in the Antarctic winter to observe the rookeries of the Emperor penguins.

Coaling there, the gunboat skirted the ice floes near the seal rookeries of the Pribilof Islands, reconnoitering the vicinity for sealers.

Entire rookeries of wading birds were shot to collect their plumes, which were used in women's hats in the early 20th century.

The rookeries of the great auk were found from Baffin Bay down to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, across the far northern Atlantic, including Iceland, and in Norway and the British Isles in Europe.

This is corroborated by the fact that the variance of genetic distance between rookeries of different habitats is much larger than among rookeries of the same habitat indicating that drift across habitats is strong relative to gene flow.

Machias Seal Island is one of only two puffin rookeries off the coast of Maine, however, and these bright-billed birds, along with razorbills and arctic terns, have the only undisputed claim to it.

Such is the case with a rookery of Adélies that Fraser's team monitors on Avian Island, in Marguerite Bay, two hundred and fifty miles south of Palmer Station.

The wind has picked up again as I join a handful of companions on the edge of a rookery of macaroni penguins.

Ink dating and facial recognition techniques are deployed, while Byrne's zealousness is challenged by a rookery of haughty types in tweed.

There are large numbers of nesting herring gulls (Larus argentatus) and great black-backed gulls (Larus marinus) on the island and a small rookery of black-crowned night-herons (Nycticorax nycticorax) and a few snowy egrets (Egretta thula).