Arriving at the rookeries somewhat later than the Adelies, they do not lay their eggs until the beginning of December.
By the springtime only one out of ten or twelve birds are seen to be rearing young, so it is obvious other rookeries await discovery in other parts, as there are a large number of Emperors to be seen along the Antarctic coasts.
In fact, three of the four rookeries I visited were possibly in the three most windy regions of the Antarctic.
Their requirements are few: they seek no shelter from the terrible Antarctic gales, their rookeries in most cases being in open wind-swept spots.
The birds from Cape Crozier and Cape Royds rookeries must have some four hundred miles further to travel when they go North in the autumn than those at Cape Adare.
In these rookeries families of them herd on the rocks, the male staying at home with his funny little black puppies, while the mother swims about seeking food.
A story is told that the barking of a little pet dog belonging to a Russian at one of the rookeries lost him a hundred thousand dollars, for the seals took fright and scurried away before any one could say 'Jack Robinson!
Out from the rookeries they heard the cries of the seals as from the shipwrecked.
A sudden rush will be made, say, on the rookeries of Bethnal Green or Whitechapel--places already overcrowded.
The omnibus and the train are the magicians which will eventually bid the rookeries disappear, but the services of these magicians cost money, and there is none to spare in the pockets of the poor.
To deny that the poor in the rookeries drink and are unthrifty would be foolish.
Leave the poor wretches who are impossible in any but rookeries a rookery or two to finish their careers in.
And without exception all these rookeries are largely peopled by the criminal classes, who find their security in the surrounding filth and lawlessness, which are so many fortifications against the enemy.
Here may be seen far more rookeries than in any other direction.
Once these rookeries were established, an inducement to follow this route would arise in the invariable habit of the birds of visiting their nesting-trees even when the actual nesting time is past.
A Raid on the Seal Rookeries The tale was told by a hunter bold Of a sealing schooner's crew, Of a midnight raid where the breakers played On reefs that the offing strew.
This is what he says: 'Here and there among the low thicket scrubs are vast rookeries of aquatic birds, whose clamour is deafening.
Indeed the fire may be said to have taken a new lease of life in those back places, and the rookeries of whole streets were swept into ruin and their inmates hurried into greater misery than they had ever known before.
If they did, the rent they would receive would be far less than the rookeries yielded, and they must sell their property or mortgage it.
These appear in small numbers at first but increase as the season advances, till the middle of July; when the rookeries are all full, the females often overlapping each other.
By the middle of June all the males have arrived, and having adjusted their differences and divided the rookeries between them, await the arrival of the females.
The quota was composed of males of approximately three years, and we may assume that a like number of three-year-old females entered the rookeries for the first time in the same season.
On certain rookeries the live and dead pups were counted.
In the absence for the earlier years of actual counts of the rookeries such as have been made in recent years, the best approximate measure of decline available is found in these facts: a.
A number of other factors must be taken into consideration, and the real measure of decrease must be sought in more pertinent statistics, drawn from the breeding rookeries themselves.
It is not easy to apply the various counts in the form of a general average to all the rookeries of the islands.
The cows actually present on certain rookeries at the height of the season were counted in both seasons.
The harems on all the rookeries were counted in both seasons.
The chief rookeries here are in the Riverina, where the great annual overflow of that fine river, the Murray, converts the country into a great series of lakes and swamps.
The two largest London rookeries were those at Greenwich Park and Kensington Gardens.
At this point the pelicans had finished breeding before my arrival--although a fortnight later Mr. Job found thousands of fresh eggs in their great rookeries west of the mouth of the Mississippi.
In such case an island with trees and water may for years be entirely uninhabited by coons, and the birds may form huge rookeries thereon.
A landing was effected without much difficulty, and two penguin rookeries which had been observed from the ship were explored with much interest.
Now a few scattered rookeries are all that remain.
They go for the first time to the rookeries in their second year.
So you see, a seal poacher on therookeries finds everybody against him.
And, without further ado, he commenced to question Colin closely concerning the place, the boy having equal interest in learning what the rookeries were like when the first investigation was made.
Some of 'em are like skeletons when they leave the rookeriesin August.
There has been progress in the way of building the tenements of late years, but they swarm with greater crowds than ever--good reason why they challenge the pernicious activity of the politician; and the old rookeries disappear slowly.
In those days Punta Arenas was a supply depot for a fleet of sealing schooners that eventually destroyed the rookeries of the region to the south.
In Florida alone whole rookeries of herons and ibises numbering hundreds and even thousands of individuals have been wholly destroyed.
The birds which they are after gather in large rookeries during the nesting season and are therefore much easier to capture then than at other times.
They breed in immense rookeries during April and May.
The Pacific Kittiwake breeds in immenserookeries on some of the islands in Bering Sea.
These birds are very abundant in most marshy localities along the Gulf coast, especially in Florida, where they nest in rookeries of thousands of individuals.
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