But isolation has not protected oceanic birds nesting on Midway from environmental contaminants that originate in distant places.

They were so often deceived that they could no longer look upon any of the oceanic birds, which frequent high latitudes, as sure signs of the vicinity of land.

Pelagic birds, also called oceanic birds, are birds that live on the open sea, rather than around waters adjacent to land or around inland waters.

In fact, bird watchers find that oceanic birds often fly before the winds of a hurricane and end up far from their tropical homes.

In the mid-1990s, Shirihai turned his attention to oceanic birds and marine mammals, particularly those of the southern hemisphere.

The result of these overseas investigations was the highly successful use of Cactoblastis moths in controlling the Opuntia species in Australia and also arousing his interest in oceanic birds.

The museum has created a home for the butterflies by constructing a vivarium, an enclosed habitat, in its hall of oceanic birds.

The shores of these islands abound, in the proper season, with sea lions, sea elephants, the hair and fur seal, together with a great variety of oceanic birds.

Flight of the Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus) a beautiful oceanic bird with a long streamer tail, Trinidad and Tobago.

Nearly 30 species of oceanic birds were obtained by Gould in this manner on the way to Australia.