Once it is safely in orbit around the ringed planet, the spacecraft can begin to do its real work. |
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Marine mammals include narwhals, beluga whales, walrus, and ringed and bearded seals. |
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Aquatic mammals that live in the waters off the coast include walrus, ringed seals, bearded seals, beluga, narwhal, and various other whales. |
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In our wanderings through the great forests and wastelands that ringed Aryavarta, there was always a need for one of us to snoop outside. |
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Today, accelerators race the particles in straight lines or, to save land space, in ringed paths several miles in diameter. |
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The squid's tentacles are armed with suckers, each ringed with tiny teeth to help snare prey. |
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The hotel had been ringed with barriers as a precaution against this kind of attack, and the bomber rammed one of the barriers. |
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My first sighting was of large numbers of pink-footed geese and wigeon along with some ringed plover and shelduck. |
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It's a tiny piece of lawn ringed with a bed of alyssum, purple wandering jew groundcover, aloes, wild garlic and other assorted plants. |
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Three red-brick buildings, which house classrooms and administrative offices, cluster around a courtyard that's ringed with conifers. |
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Bird species to be seen include ringed plover, oystercatcher, redshank and little grebe. |
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They're ringed by one of the world's largest barrier reefs and home to outstanding diving and fishing. |
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Colonial nesters, young common terns have been ringed in considerable numbers in Norfolk for many years. |
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In between, demonstrators had ringed the Sheraton to prevent an alternative entry to the Convention Center. |
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It is tastefully landscaped, dotted with islets, ringed by a trail and helpful interpretive signs. |
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Gardens fill the bottom of Torment Basin, ringed by moraines, scoured rock, and living ice. |
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The military base, situated on a grassy hilltop overlooking the town of Gyumri, is ringed by a snow-capped garland of mountain peaks. |
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I found myself in a wide stone court, ringed by tall, silvery-gray walls pierced by windows. |
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The day was filled with Sun, and even the little camp, ringed by stone as it was, grew warm. |
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It is a creeper-clad 1930s property, set in its own grounds and ringed by mature trees and south-facing lawns. |
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Underscored by an ecological development brief, the new campus has a green landscaped centre, ringed by lecture halls and a university library. |
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Last night found that his bicycle, ringed round with chains like tinsel on a Xmas tree, had had its seat stolen. |
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Eight fortified guard towers ringed the eight-sided central keep, lining its periphery like the spindly legs of a gigantic spider. |
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It's right where the shantytown used to be, ringed by businesses and middle-class homes. |
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And then, around one of its many bends, the river rapidly emptied into a lake many leagues across and ringed by small hills. |
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The clear, blue water sparkled like glass, and was ringed by fifty-foot oak trees. |
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Artic Pi, an oval form painted in shimmering silver and ringed by colored bands, suggests a mirror. |
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Shadows ringed his eyes, and his eyelids were half opened, barely looking at his father, who was giving him an earful of harsh Russian words. |
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The man finally got what he wanted, and Trish stared at him with suddenly dark gray eyes ringed in yellow. |
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She had long thick brown hair, with hazel eyes ringed in black, fair skin and the cutest smile that you adored about her. |
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Rather than a fireplace, it boasted a pit dug into the dirt floor, ringed by large rocks. |
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The painting depicts a calm, cerulean blue crater lake, ringed by craggy rock that flickers from lavender to cream, ocher to gray. |
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Round eyes as dark as a faery's stared out from sunken and sallow sockets, ringed by dark purple bags. |
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Despite the dearth of light, his pupils were the size of pin-pricks, and were ringed in jagged circlets of gold. |
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Where his were ringed in dark green, these were colored deep blue, almost black. |
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They slashed and ringed the bark to stop these powerful trees putting out leaves. |
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You can stretch your arms out and hit a number of ringed targets that are aligned along rails. |
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A head with a ringed neck probably refers to the well-known fertility goddess. |
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We did bag some fat ringed perch, nearly two dozen slab-sized crappies, and a similar number of northern pike. |
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I was already a schoolboy, proudly wearing the green blazer and ringed cap of my school. |
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Mostly inexpensive metalwork such as ringed pins characterize the industry and crafts going on in the town. |
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They dozed with their black-and-white ringed tails flung over their shoulders like feather boas. |
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It possesses a natural composite quality in the elastic sapwood and the more densely ringed heartwood. |
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I was impressed by the scene of a ringed planet sliding across the sky on its way to block out the sun. |
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The spacecraft began its journey to the ringed world nearly seven years ago. |
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They reported 12 more moons orbiting Saturn, putting the ringed giant back ahead of Jupiter as the planet with the most satellites. |
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He learns that that he is the alien, and discovers his home is orbiting a ringed Saturn-like planet. |
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It is gravitationally captive to the giant ball of ringed gases that is Saturn. |
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Titan's position in orbit meant that it disappeared five minutes before its ringed parent. |
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Images of Saturn reveal that the ringed planet is not the silver colour it appears from Earth. |
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It appears to be a solid object, which was captured by Saturn's gravity, rather than being a chip off the ringed planet. |
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Further afield there are the starkly beautiful pictures of a ringed Saturn and the outer planets, Uranus and Neptune. |
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Chapter 4 deals with the process of creating ringed planets, star fields, and other celestial bodies. |
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They wore new suits, with the sleeves pulled back to show ringed fingers and white shirt cuffs. |
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Out of 2,156 ringed adults, only one bird is known to have flown from Cousin Island to Cousine Island. |
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The remaining 4 per cent were ringed birds whose breeding history was not known in that year. |
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Since 1981, daily searches for ringed individuals have been performed from a blind that overlooks part of the colony. |
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For 53 of these, neither their ringed parents nor their ringed siblings were observed to breed in the colony in their first year of breeding. |
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There are numerous recoveries of ringed birds which have spent one winter in this country. |
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It has not been a very efficient way, with only about one in a hundred ringed birds recaptured. |
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More than 95 per cent of ringed black swans recovered during their first year of life were recovered on their natal lake. |
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Several species of ground-nesting birds including lapwing, redshank and ringed plover have come under threat from hedgehogs. |
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In the past week, sand martins, swallows, chiffchaffs, wheaters and ringed plovers have all been seen there. |
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Apart from the passing migrants, this site also attracts some of the rare birds such as little ringed plovers and red wattled lapwings, they say. |
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The Killdeer is the largest of the ringed plovers, and the only plover in its range with a double breast band. |
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I observed a pair of ringed plovers, a new species for me, a common redshank, two dozen black-winged stilts and a yellow wagtail. |
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Other breeding waders include 19 drumming snipe, 3 pairs of dunlin and 4 pairs of ringed plover. |
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Their diet consists mostly of marine mammals such as the ringed seals, bearded seals and occasionally a walrus pup. |
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Polar bears feed primarily on ringed seals and to a lesser degree on bearded seals and spotted seals. |
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At this spot, marine and ice conditions favour the year-round presence of ringed seals. |
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While there is some geographic variation in their diet, their main prey are ringed seals and bearded seals. |
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Mining villages are ringed with officers, police roadblocks established, non-police movements restricted. |
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The death knell could also be sounded for other species dependent on the ice, such as the ringed seal, bearded seal and little auk. |
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I had imagined an open meadow, ringed and shaded by a few towering royal palms, maybe even a pine or two. |
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You enter a plush lounge bar on street level packed with hip scenesters, and take a steel stairwell to a basement grotto ringed by a moat. |
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You'll copter in to one of five beautiful backwoods lodges for guided heli-hiking to turquoise lakes ringed by wildflowers. |
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Emerald-green hills are dotted with old stone churches, one-room schoolhouses and white cottages ringed by picket fences and tidy flowerbeds. |
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French troops guarding the base retreated behind fences ringed with barbed wire. |
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And then you turn off the main road, and are in another, private world of gated compounds ringed by eroding mud-brick walls. |
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Casseroles were unveiled from Saran Wrap prisons and the tiki torches that ringed the patio were lit. |
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Arctic waters are renowned for such marine mammals as bowhead and beluga whales and ringed, spotted and bearded seals. |
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Other tasks included identifying and isolating minefields and unexploded ordnance that ringed the base. |
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No red-and-black ringed prey have been observed at the site, so birds could not have learned specific avoidance of the bicolour pattern. |
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The wooden counter was ringed with tubed lightning, stained with smoke and alcohol. |
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Yet this great expanse of lowland is almost ringed by the hills and mountains, most of which lie near the coast. |
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The ringed spot is then held over the muslined spout just long enough to become moist, but not wet. |
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Birds not ringed as nestlings were aged and sexed according to the method of Jenni and Winkler. |
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Birds were ringed as nestlings or when breeding and measured using standard procedures. |
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Tell one birder about an owl in a tree and within a few hours, you can expect to find that tree ringed by a throng of twitchers deploying expensive optics. |
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She placed a fountain in a circle of pebbles ringed first by gravel, then by grasses, the whole surrounded by a circular pathway of railway sleepers set into natural stone. |
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A wide clearing, ringed by trees in full bloom, silver fish glinting in the waters of the small stream winding through it, cutting through the emerald grass. |
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The face changed now to Marta's face, still ringed by flame. |
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As he held out each one, he tapped it with his ringed fingers. |
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He emerged with two fully covered arms, ringed with vines and bloodshot eyes. |
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No seals were seen in the area on that day, although on an earlier date, one of us sighted a ringed seal in the water adjacent to the Yamal upon reaching the Pole. |
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The ringed man quickly looked behind him to see if anyone had heard. |
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He ran a heavily ringed right hand through his crimson hair. |
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We were afraid of the soundless swing of our father's ringed fist. |
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Relatively low densities of ringed seals have been reported for the Arctic Archipelago, particularly in areas largely covered by thick multiyear ice. |
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Aars said he and fellow researchers also hope to learn how polar bears and their main prey, ringed seals, are affected by changes in the global climate. |
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Many by De Mello are of fishermen throwing their nets, or balanced on a cliff with their rods lined up, or fishing boats moored in a foggy bay ringed by Hawaiian mountains. |
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She pointed to a large grassy circle that was ringed by tall bushes. |
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Sheltered in their beehive huts, ringed around a tiny church and graveyard, they survived for centuries in one of the most inhospitable environments imaginable. |
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Nearby is another Lake Mashu which is ringed by 200 metre high walls. |
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The islands are ringed by sandy beaches and surrounded by shallow seas. |
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The rest of Perry, with its population of around 15,000, is ringed by churches, pecan groves, and cotton fields. |
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We search one last time for green kingfisher and ringed kingfisher. |
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He had a scraggly beard and his once clean-shaven head was ringed by a horseshoe of graying hair. |
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You can go almost anywhere in the North and locate ringed seals to study. |
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Police had ringed the theater with Metro buses touching bumper to bumper. |
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It is but a short hike through a white pine forest from the top of the ski resort chair to the broad expanse of this high bowl, ringed by sharp summits and sawtooth ridges. |
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But polar bears spend much of their time roaming the miles and miles of ice that cover the Arctic seas most of the year hunting for prey such as the ringed seal. |
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There was an empty, haunting self-portrait by the Serbian performance artist Marina Abramovic, her mouth ringed with plated gold. |
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Circles ringed and shadowed them, but still they twinkled brightly. |
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The country rises from sea level in the south to rugged highlands in the north and west, and Sana'a is ringed by mountains that legend says flew from Sinai to Yemen. |
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They hunt their primary prey, the ringed seal, from the ice. |
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A circle of the Iowan pavement ringed the Jeep, but beyond the five-foot diameter circle of pavement, a lush carpet of emerald grass and tiny wildflowers began. |
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Dark marks ringed the boy's bony wrist, livid against pale flesh. |
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He looked at the thin sheet of metal ringed by rivet holes and he knew instantly what it was his wife had chanced upon. |
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Am now scared of funnel-web spiders, box jellyfish, blue ringed octopus, paralysis ticks and stone fish. |
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The ornate reserve gate features the little ringed plover and grey heron, which are among the birds to have made the site their home. |
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The estuary is also Internationally Important for ringed plover based on passage numbers. |
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Another little gem to be found alongside our Lakeside Hide is a nesting little ringed plover. |
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The biggest, and saddest, Springwatch story for the crew last year was the fate of the four ringed plover eggs, as Humble relates. |
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In Portugal, the Aveiro Lagoon hosts Recurvirostra avosetta, the common ringed plover, grey plover and little stint. |
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Two pairs of little ringed plovers have nested at Ringstone reservoir, near Ripponden. |
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Lapwings, redshanks and ringed plovers have all come under threat from the hedgehogs which eat their eggs. |
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A pair of little ringed plovers at RSPB Conwy is raising hopes of nesting this year for the first time in years. |
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The smallest is the ringed seal, found from Japan to Scandinavia, Greenland and Canada. |
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Once widespread in Finland, the Saim ringed seal is now found only in the Saim fragmented freshwater lake complex. |
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Grigg thinks rising temperatures and melting ice may have encouraged grey seals to follow fish north into ringed seal territory. |
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The white bodies developed short stubby leggish appendages, with a single large sucker orifice ringed and ringed with little teeth. |
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The ringed seal is wholly reliant on the ice for birthing, weaning and housing its young in ice lairs. |
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By January 1283, Edward I of England had the heartland of independent Wales ringed with a massive army. |
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Polar bears live within the Arctic Circle and feed primarily on ringed seals. |
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Some species, such as ribbon seals, ringed seals and leopard seals, have patterns of contrasting light and dark coloration. |
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They also contain an abundance of harp and juvenile ringed seals indicative of spring sealing, and summer migrants dominate among the birds. |
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Laurence Reich, and I had only one such day and hunted musk ox instead of ringed seals with our Inuit friends. |
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Green and common sandpipers are currently feeding around the pools, often joined by dunlins, little ringed plovers and lapwings. |
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The Baikal seal is the only freshwater species, though some ringed seals live in freshwater lakes in Russia close to the Baltic sea. |
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The longest recorded lifespans include 43 years for a wild female ringed seal and 46 years for a wild female grey seal. |
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Bearded seals, along with ringed seals, are a major food source for polar bears. |
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The tiny Nathusius' pipistrelle was first ringed in Blagdon, near Bristol, and was discovered nearly 600km away in the Netherlands. |
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The taxonomy of ringed seal has been much debated and revised in the literature. |
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During late April through June, ringed seals are distributed throughout their range from the southern ice edge northward. |
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Thus, ringed seals occupying the Bering and southern Chukchi seas in winter apparently are migratory, but details of their movements are unknown. |
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The ringed seal maintains a breathing hole in the ice thus allowing it to use ice habitat that other seals cannot. |
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Bycatch in fishing gear, such as commercial trawls, is also another threat to ringed seals. |
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Climate change is potentially the most serious threat to ringed seal populations since much of their habitat is dependent upon pack ice. |
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The estimated population size for the Alaska stock of ringed seals is 249,000 animals. |
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Nine Storm-petrels were ringed on Bardsey last week, in what is proving to be a good year for the birds. |
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A decline of seasonal sea ice puts the survival of Arctic species such as ringed seals and polar bears at risk. |
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The town has a medieval center ringed by a wall with numerous watch towers. |
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This subpopulation feeds heavily on ringed seals in late spring, when newly weaned and easily hunted seal pups are abundant. |
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It is one of only three entirely freshwater seal populations in the world, the other two being subspecies of ringed seals. |
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The Middle East, India and China are all ringed by mountains and oceans but, once past these outer barriers, are nearly flat. |
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The mouth of the capsule is usually ringed by a set of teeth called peristome. |
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European birds may also winter in South Asia, an osprey ringed in Norway has been recovered in western India. |
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The peddler stopped, and tapped her on the head, With absolute forefinger, brown and ringed. |
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But most of the chemicals have been either simple, straight chains of atoms or ringed structures. |
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Populations of dunlin, lapwing and ringed plovers have dropped by 60 per cent after the hedgehogs developed a taste for their eggs. |
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In a similar manner, hunters from Kivalina have seen polar bears scavenge walrus, bearded seal, and ringed seal carcasses along Cape Krusenstern's coastal lands. |
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Of these two seals, only the Baltic ringed seal suffers when there is not adequate ice in the Baltic Sea, as it feeds its young only while on ice. |
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It is ringed by mountains and contains the sources of most of the rivers, which find their way through gaps in the mountain barriers on all sides. |
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Nationally important populations of breeding waders are present in the Outer Hebrides, including common redshank, dunlin, lapwing and ringed plover. |
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Bird species including the corn crake, twite, dunlin, common redshank and ringed plover, as well as rare insects such as the northern colletes bee. |
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The estuary wetlands are home to migrating birds such as the ringed plover, redshank and whimbrel, while the Eurasian curlew, dunlin and grey plover winter in the area. |
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Blind ringed seals have even been observed successfully hunting on their own in Lake Saimaa, likely relying on their vibrissae to gain sensory information and catch prey. |
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Shore birds include meadow pipit, rock pipit and ringed plover. |
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The seals are the ringed seal, the harp seal and the grey seal. |
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The fishing industry is relatively small, mostly targeting harp seal, ringed seal, herring, saffron cod, European smelt, Atlantic cod and Atlantic salmon. |
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During April and May, the Arctic fox also preys on ringed seal pups when the young animals are confined to a snow den and are relatively helpless. |
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My 360 red ringed and I had to ship it to Texas to get it fixed. |
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They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year. |
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A Black Redstart and White Wagtail were on Bardsey at the weekend, while a Jack Snipe caught in the ringing nets was ringed less than 50 metres away last April. |
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The third series, due for release on August 11, includes gannet, ringed plover, grey glover, golden plover, greenshank, curlew, herring gull and great black-backed gull. |
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The new habitats are already supporting species such as little ringed plover and lapwing, alongside the harvest mouse and the UK's smallest butterfly species, the small blue. |
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Some declining species, such as the ringed plover and bar-tailed godwit seem to be shifting away from wintering in Wales, preferring to spend the winter in continental Europe. |
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Nunavut's Department of Health is advising women of child-bearing age, or who are pregnant or may become pregnant, to avoid ringed seal liver due to its high mercury content. |
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Walrus was the dominant game species on the island amounting to more than 50 per cent of the bone sample, followed by ringed seal and bearded seal. |
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The main source of food for polar bears, which live on the Arctic ice cap, is the ringed seal, which they usually hunt from floating ice platforms. |
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Grigg and his colleagues found that the parasite, a microscopic creature shaped like a crescent moon, also infects about 80 percent of ringed seals but doesn't make them sick. |
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The bears are impatient to dine on ringed seals, their favorite food. |
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Polar bears live within the Arctic Circle and eat a calorie-rich diet of ringed seals to survive the frozen conditions, and they hunt for their prey on frozen sea ice. |
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Kids can look out for Arctic foxes, ringed seals and even polar bears as they travel to the cold and icy north to get to Father Christmas's magical grotto. |
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Proceedings went ahead peacefully, although scores of students who ringed the ceremony at Bauhinia Square overlooking Hong Kong harbor booed as the national anthem was played. |
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High tide at Morfa Madryn at the start of the week saw a large flock of dunlins, sanderlings and ringed plovers, many still in their smart summer plumage. |
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The northern face of the fell forming the dalehead is ringed with crags. |
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