A bird colony is a large congregation of individuals of one or more species of bird that nest or roost in proximity at a particular location. Many kinds...

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for fulmars and other seabirds. The island is also home to the largest colony of black guillemots in the Uummannaq Fjord region, with the population reaching...

Bird migration is a seasonal movement of birds between breeding and wintering grounds that occurs twice a year. It is typically from north to south or...

the United States returned to its colony in Skomer, in Wales within 13 days, a distance of 5,150 km (3,200 mi). Birds navigate during migration using a...

dictionary. A rookery is a colony breeding rooks, and more broadly a colony of several types of breeding animals, generally gregarious birds. Coming from the nesting...

boat trips run to Cape Enniberg, which is also the site of an important bird colony. Extreme points of the Faroe Islands "To the Raw Cliffs". visitfaroeislands...

Edith Bird (pronounced Marie) (24 August 1891 – 25 August 1979) was a South–African born British producer. She was born in Pietermaritzburg, Colony of Natal...

(450 km; 280 mi). The island contains a small colony of Scopoli's shearwaters where around 25–30 pairs of birds breed in old rabbit holes. Giraglia Giraglia...

Cass Bird (born 1974) is an artist, photographer, and director who lives and works in New York City. Bird has exhibited widely within the United States...

with the larger Skellig Michael. Little Skellig is a nature reserve and bird colony. Landing on Little Skellig is not allowed. Little Skellig is the smaller...

fifty birds were present. Museums, desiring the skins of the great auk for preservation and display, quickly began collecting birds from the colony.: 43 ...

and the gannet colony comprises large working farms grazing sheep and cattle. The peninsula, including farm land and the bird colony locations, is enclosed...

colony prior to beginning to breed, spending many years practising the elaborate breeding rituals and "dances" for which the family is famous. Birds arriving...

boobies and brown noddies. Boat trips take visitors to Roach Island for a bird colony experience. Admiralty (disambiguation) Hutton 1986, p. 81 Hutton, Ian...

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(Aralia cordata), and the local spruce-fir forest — a seal rookery, and a bird colony and nesting site. Within the area, hunting, fishing, specimen collection...

or "Mr. Ned" as he was affectionately known, founded this bird colony—later called Bird City—around 1895 after plume hunters had slaughtered egrets...

several hundred birds, with each bird leaning forward on a neighbour. As the wind chill is the least severe in the center of the colony, all the juveniles...

approaching the colony, and no bird likes to land in a location where other puffins are not already present. They make several circuits of the colony before alighting...

where birds sit, often in groups, on the water close to the colony. Schreiber, Elizabeth A. and Burger, Joanne (2001) Biology of Marine Birds. Boca Raton:...

17th century; the species was known to him from a colony in the Firth of Forth and from a stray bird that was found near Coleshill, Warwickshire. It was...

Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Johnson (née Taylor; December 22, 1912 – July 11, 2007) was the first lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969 as the wife...

The Handy Writers' Colony, often called simply the Handy Colony or The Colony, was a writers' colony located in Marshall, Illinois, which operated from...

The site has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports a colony of Audubon's shearwaters (with 300...

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St. Lazaria Island is a nesting bird colony located twenty miles (32 km) west of Sitka, Alaska. Its is a part of the Gulf of Alaska unit of the Alaska...

most elaborate mating displays of all seabirds. The male birds take up residence in the colony in groups of up to thirty individuals. They display to females...

Park. At low tide, the rock is approachable on foot. The rock and the bird colony in Bonaventure Island is about a 75-minute trip from Percé by boat. Visits...

for the Protection of Birds nature reserve that has views of Rathlin's bird colony. The RSPB has also successfully managed natural habitat to facilitate...