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26) What the sea saw
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A lyrical introduction to the sea, its inhabitants, and its role in the world around it. Includes facts about the ecosystems of oceans and shorelines.
28) Full circle
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A film that celebrates one woman's triumph in conservation: the Great Gull Island Project, Helen Hays' 50-year quest to save two species of threatened seabirds.
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The story of a nesting pair of murrelets who fly inland from their home in the Pacific Ocean to the Douglas-fir tree area of California where an egg is laid. After the egg is hatched the parents fly back and forth to the ocean bring fish for the young bird to eat. And finally when the fledgling leaves the nest and heads to the ocean.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The author tells of some of her experiences on a four-month research trip to the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean where she studied seabirds (boobies, petrels) and marine mammals (dolphins & whales).
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The African Penguin population is critically low, due to various factors including climate change. Scientists and volunteers with a South African organization are helping to rescue these endangered birds by rearing abandoned chicks."--
Despite South African government efforts to protect the penguin colonies and their ocean fish supply, young penguins still struggle to survive. Fuzzy chicks waiting for food in open nests may overheat in the sun or...