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  • Thumbnail for Piedras Blancas Light Station
    elephant seal rookery on the West Coast is located about a mile south of the lighthouse along California Highway One. A few animals began using the rookery in...
    10 KB (932 words) - 04:50, 3 April 2024
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    Look up rookery in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A rookery is a colony breeding rooks, and more broadly a colony of several types of breeding animals...
    4 KB (312 words) - 22:45, 27 April 2024
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    north as Brazil and South Africa. Typically, fur seals gather during the summer in large rookeries at specific beaches or rocky outcrops to give birth...
    15 KB (1,832 words) - 03:09, 5 June 2024
  • from 15,000 to more than 20,000 seals living in one area, referred to as a rookery. The grounds occupied by fur seal bachelor herds are generally far...
    11 KB (1,418 words) - 09:17, 2 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for San Simeon, California
    The area is also home to a large northern elephant seal rookery, known as the Piedras Blancas rookery, located 7 miles (11 km) north of San Simeon on Highway...
    18 KB (1,310 words) - 17:17, 10 February 2024
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    the northern fur seal rookeries. The Pribilof Islands support about half of the global population, with some of the individual rookeries on Saint Paul Island...
    45 KB (4,439 words) - 01:01, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Piedras Blancas State Marine Reserve and Marine Conservation Area
    important elephant seal rookery. Friends of the Elephant Seal is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating people about elephant seals and other marine...
    8 KB (909 words) - 05:07, 3 April 2024
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    agriculture. The fish and the seals signify the importance of fishing and seal rookeries to Alaska's economy. "The Alaska State Seal". State of Alaska. Retrieved...
    2 KB (154 words) - 21:10, 12 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Northern fur seal
    fur seal bone collagen (δ13C and δ15N) indicates that before the maritime fur trade, it was more common for these animals to breed at local rookeries in...
    21 KB (2,742 words) - 02:47, 19 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Farallon Islands
    islands. In 1996 West End Island became the fourth American northern fur seal rookery when a pup was born. The recolonizers bore tags from San Miguel Island...
    51 KB (5,774 words) - 11:23, 2 June 2024
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    refer to the earless seals while the majority of inhabitants (fur seals and sea lions) belong to the eared seals. The fur seal rookery on Tyuleny Island...
    18 KB (1,851 words) - 22:35, 19 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Carpinteria, California
    are low while air quality is high. Seals and sea lions can be seen in the area December through May at the rookery in the nearby Carpinteria Bluffs, as...
    27 KB (2,316 words) - 13:59, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Northern elephant seal
    California. Northern elephant seals exhibit extreme sexual dimorphism in their feeding behaviours. When the males leave their rookeries, they migrate northwards...
    34 KB (4,034 words) - 04:34, 11 April 2024
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    range somewhat southward. Therefore, though there are no reproductive rookeries in Japan, several consistent haul-out sites are found around Hokkaidō...
    40 KB (4,498 words) - 13:16, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Seal Island Historic District
    encompassing historic elements of the city of St. George, and extending east to a rookery and historic kill site area. On Saint Paul, the historic portion of the...
    6 KB (625 words) - 00:46, 20 March 2024
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    "Foraging-Related Activity of Bald Eagles at a Washington Seabird Colony and Seal Rookery" (PDF). Journal of Raptor Research. 44: 19. doi:10.3356/JRR-08-107.1...
    140 KB (15,356 words) - 04:42, 20 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arctocephalus forsteri
    Australasian fur seal, South Australian fur seal, New Zealand fur seal, Antipodean fur seal, or long-nosed fur seal) is a species of fur seal found mainly...
    24 KB (2,810 words) - 02:12, 22 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cambria, California
    is located approximately six miles north, and the Northern elephant seal rookery at Piedras Blancas is some fifteen miles to the north. Cambria is home...
    34 KB (3,518 words) - 15:48, 9 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Brown fur seal
    Brown fur seals often gather into colonies on rookeries in numbers ranging from 500 to 1500, at least for the Australian subspecies. While fur seals spend...
    23 KB (2,616 words) - 10:55, 26 April 2024
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    Zhanna (January 19, 2023). "Where to See Seals in San Diego: La Jolla's Seal Rookery and Haul-Out Places". Roads and Destinations. Retrieved March 20, 2023...
    70 KB (7,120 words) - 02:19, 23 May 2024
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