Sentence examples for surface foraging from inspiring English sources

Secondary attacks – surface foraging albatrosses stealing baits from white-chinned petrels – drove albatross mortality.

Here we address this question by quantifying the relative use of an anthropogenically-generated wake by surface foraging seabirds, verified using drone transects and hydroacoustics.

It is possible that these prey are obtained during shallow dives near dawn and dusk when vertically migrating prey may be closer to the ocean surface [36] or during surface foraging at night.

Leaf-litter foraging in turn gave rise to two derived conditions: true surface foraging (the driver ants) and a reversal to subterranean foraging (a clade with most of the extant Dorylus s.s. species).

Foraging time included both plunge diving (used to calculate dive rate) and surface foraging, a foraging event consuming a high percent of the foraging time (Garthe et al., 2000; Warwick-Evans et al., 2015).

Four key behaviours were identified: resting at the sea surface, flapping flight, gliding flight, and foraging (including plunge diving and surface foraging; Warwick-Evans et al., 2015).

Livestock concentration, soil compaction and erosion, living plant cover, dead plant residue on the surface, forage mass and height and soil organic matter are some workable aspects of grazing land management.

In this regard, it should be noted that eastern moles do not exit to the soil surface while foraging (see discussion), thus fleeing to the surface provides worms both immediate safety and the most efficient means for movement away from the predator for subsequent burrowing.

The importance of these fine and local-scale physical processes is heightened in seabirds restricted to shallow plunge diving techniques, such as gulls and terns, where prey availability near the sea surface governs foraging site selection11,12,13.

The poorer take-off performance of M. capaccinii could be related to either a reduction in wing-stroke amplitude to stop the wings hitting the water's surface during foraging or perhaps an effect of having very large feet.

3. The species of the subgenus Anomma that forage in the leaf-litter are more closely related to subterranean species of the subgenus Dorylus s.s., than to the surface swarm foraging Anomma driver ants, which form a well supported clade.