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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Hydrobatidae — certainstorm petrels .
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He partook in an ice walk across the frozen ocean and observed penguin counting research being done by U.S.-based non-profit, Oceanites.
WATCH: 'Jeopardy!' Host's Incredible Vacation The Huffington Post 2011
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He partook in an ice walk across the frozen ocean and observed penguin counting research being done by U.S.-based non-profit, Oceanites.
WATCH: 'Jeopardy!' Host's Incredible Vacation The Huffington Post 2011
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He partook in an ice walk across the frozen ocean and observed penguin counting research being done by U.S.-based non-profit, Oceanites.
WATCH: 'Jeopardy!' Host's Incredible Vacation The Huffington Post 2011
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He partook in an ice walk across the frozen ocean and observed penguin counting research being done by U.S.-based non-profit, Oceanites.
WATCH: 'Jeopardy!' Host's Incredible Vacation The Huffington Post 2011
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Over 50 bird species include the world's second largest colony (25-30,000) of masked boobies Sula granti (VU), as well as the endangered swallowtailed gull Creagrus furcatus (EN), the Galapagos petrel Pterodroma phaeopygia (CR), and the peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus, Elliot's storm petrel Oceanites gracilis, Hornby's storm petrel Oceanodroma hornbyi, magnificent and greater frigate birds Fregata magnificens and F. minor.
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A recent staggering development was the 2003 rediscovery of the New Zealand storm petrel (Oceanites maorianus, CR) in waters just off North Island.
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Penguin-researchers working for the Washington, D. C.-based environmental group Oceanites, who camp on Peterman Island each summer, showed us how whole colonies have abandoned nests and moved south, in search of the colder air and thicker ice they are accustomed to.
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In December, WTAE Channel 4 Action News Anchor Sally Wiggin traveled to the Antarctic Peninsula with the nonprofit group Oceanites to discover how tourists and climate change are affecting the region with one of their primary tools -- penguins.
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Carlson and University of Marlyand ecology Ph. D. student Elise Larsen spent two weeks aboard a Lindblad Expeditions cruise ship, the National Geographic Explorer, as Oceanites researchers, following tourists from site to site, counting penguins along the way.
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Ron Naveen is the President of Oceanites, Inc., a US-based nonprofit science and education organization, and the principal investigator of the Antarctic Site Inventory project.
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