{"id":3835,"date":"2011-03-23T08:49:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T16:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=3835"},"modified":"2011-03-23T08:49:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T16:49:06","slug":"sheer-numbers-of-shearwaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/03\/23\/sheer-numbers-of-shearwaters\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheer Numbers of Shearwaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3836\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3836\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/shearwaters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3836\" title=\"Shearwaters\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/shearwaters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/shearwaters.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/shearwaters-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of sooty shearwaters descend on Monterey Bay each summer. (photo: E. Loury)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Monterey Bay is not only a tourist attraction for visitors from all over the world, it is also a destination spot for animals from across the globe.\u00a0 Some animal visitors swim the distance, <a title=\"Turtle Power: Paddling 12,000 miles across the\u00a0Pacific\" href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2010\/03\/24\/turtle-power\/\">like the leatherback sea turtles<\/a> that journey from the beaches of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.\u00a0 Others just wing it for thousands of miles, like these seabirds called sooty shearwaters that hail all the way from New Zealand in flocks of hundreds and thousands.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers think that the rich feeding conditions in the California Current are a major attraction for these long journeys.\u00a0 MLML student <a title=\"Melinda\u00a0Nakagawa\" href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/students\/melinda-nakagawa\/\">Melinda Nakagawa<\/a> put satellite tags on some sooty sheaterwaters to track their movements.\u00a0 For her thesis, she is investigating how the birds move in relation to physical forces, such as winds and currents \u2013 such information will help us better understand these birds&#8217; epic migrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monterey Bay is not only a tourist attraction for visitors from all over the world, it is also a destination spot for animals from across the globe.\u00a0 Some animal visitors swim the distance, like the leatherback sea turtles that journey from the beaches of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.\u00a0 Others just wing it for thousands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[258],"class_list":["post-3835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-seabirds"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}