A less obvious but important reason is that oceanographers and fishery biologists have overlooked seabirds as important members of marine ecosystems.
Hence one suspects that there is lessened competition for food outside the breeding season and that lack of competition for food is a major reason for seabirds being long-lived, often to extremes little suspected until recently.
Because of their numbers and because of the apparent rapidity with which their numbers rebound, it is not so apparent that they have been affected by long-term perturbations, as so many other seabirds apparently have.
Notes on the habits and methods of capture of various species of seabirds that occur on the fishing banks off the east coast of North America and which are used as bait for catching codfish by New England fishermen.
Competition perhaps exists only rarely because seabirds partition resources through use of different feeding methods, selection of different-sized prey, and habitat zonation.
Locations of larger colonies of breeding seabirds are known, however, and sufficient data are available to place colonies in broad size ranges.
Preliminary standing stock and biomass estimates of seabirds in the subarctic Pacific region.
Communication assures that seabirds benefit and are not unduly harassed.
About 68% of all seabirdson the northeastern Pacific coast are nocturnal, burrow or rock crevice-nesting species.
The purpose of this paper is to discuss some influences of introduced animals, primarily mammals, on seabirds and their nesting habitat, with emphasis on the coasts of Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska.
The trophic roles played by seabirds must be studied in detail at the community level year-round before those analyses can be properly refined.
Pollution No quantitative investigation similar to those made in Great Britain, Netherlands, and Belgium (Tanis and Bruyns 1968) has been carried out on the impact of oil pollution on seabirds in Norway.
Seabirds and their eggs constitute a small, but still very important, part of the total diet of the Eskimos and Indians living along the Arctic coast of the Northwest Territories and Alaska.
As Sowl and Bartonek (1974) indicated, seabirds are the most visible component of a marine ecosystem and, at the same time, they are the least understood.
For nearly an hour the curious aquatic chase is carried on, not in silence, but amid a chorus of deafening noises--the shouts of the savages and the barking and yelping of their dogs mingling with the shrieking of the seabirds overhead.
The fishers in the canoes have not heeded it, while the sneezing of Caesar has been unheard by them amid the noises made by themselves, their dogs, and the shrieking seabirds still in full fracas overhead.
Not many people were on these steps, but the seabirds were flying wildly about the steps and over the brow of the bluff.
Circling seabirds flew high above them, for, after all, the route the steamship followed to the West Indies was never far from shore.
But the wailing of the seabirds and the lap, lap, lapping of the little waves along the strand sounded very mournful in their ears.
And many a time I fell asleep there as I lay, just as I was, fully dressed and all, and did not wake till the seabirds began calling.
And there was a host of seabirds chattering and screaming, in the air and on the shore.
A few of the young people crowded round me and wanted to see my catch; I had shot a brace of seabirds and caught a few haddock.
The seabirds began to wake out on the reefs; their cries sounded in through the open windows.
The sun shone redly in through the windows all the time, and the seabirds slept.
It may have sunk after being killed; but putrefaction had set in within the carcass and the gases which had thereby formed would keep the whale afloat until the fish and seabirds had stripped its bones, in great part at least.
Then another, and another and another appeared, and soon the voracious sharks were tearing at the whale from beneath while the increasing number of seabirds were hovering and fighting above the carcass.
And being dead, and the seabirds and shark-fish having got at its carcass before the storm, there was good reason for the waves not breaking over it.
Of course there were no seabirds upon the carcass now, nor did I see the triangular fin of a shark anywhere about.
The sunlight flashed upon the blue waters below, and the seabirds flew screaming around our heads.
You are like chattering seabirdssquabbling over a bait which will never be yours.
The seabirds circled about their heads; every moment brought the rocky little island more distinctly into view.
Through the music of the band outside, and the chink and clatter of the dining-room, it seemed to me as if I heard the foaming of the surf and the voices of the seabirds about Midway Island.
Soon after this the "seabirds of Muscovy" departed; then came the flitting to Newport, and a summer of steady work.
It lies outside of Gottland, and only sheep and seabirds live here.
And all along the shores of these little dams and canals, there are many well-concealed places, where seabirds hatch their eggs, and bring up their young without being disturbed, either by enemies or food worries.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seabirds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
