Sentence examples for sand lance from inspiring English sources

After several weeks, there were signs of species returning to the brackish waters — sand lance (a tiny prey fish), crabs, flounder, and squid.

The researchers suggest that the reproductive decline is related to the absence of the birds' chief prey, a small fish called the sand lance.

The team speculates that striking the water helps herd the sand lance together.

Gjerdrum suspects that the warmer water may be affecting availability of the puffins' primary food source, a fish called sand lance.

Researchers don't know what advantage this gives the whales, but lobtail feeding arose at the time of a crash in the population of the whales' preferred prey, herring, and the rise of another fish, the sand lance.

Other fish suggested as potential prey include lumpsuckers, shorthorn sculpins, cod, crustaceans, and sand lance.

Sand lances possess pectoral and caudal fins as well as posteriorly placed dorsal and anal fins.

Sand lances (or sand eels) have elongate bodies up to 8.5 cm (about 3.5 inches) in length that lack scutes, scales, and spines.

It chases down pelagic fishes such as lancet fish, mackerel, pilchards, herring, and sauries, and forages near the bottom for groundfishes such as cod, hake, icefish, dories, sand lances, lumpsuckers, and flatfish.

That's the message that we're sending the retiring sergeant major driving out of Fort Bragg for the last time, the terminal lance corporal shaking the sand from his M.C.U.'s as he packs for home, the transport pilot setting a course for the States, the junior petty officer putting his back to the sea and his eyes on the road ahead.

About six miles from Tarifa's beautiful old town, nature certainly seems to dominate the broad sweep of sand that is the Playa de los Lances.