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Sentence Examples The Japanese version, though, weighed little more than six ounces, which meant it could be carried by a twenty-six-pound wandering albatross. In The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, the mariner shoots an albatross and all the wind goes out of his sails. As reported in Franks passim, the Dullard show is like a wounded albatross trying to get off the ground. The one albatross it would be deeply unfair to hang around his neck is the one people seem to have already slain and roped for him. And it's not just individuals who are trying to avoid having any albatross hung around their neck. I try to be aware of the space I take up, of the prejudice that I carry, and the privilege that is the albatross around my neck. It was a supreme moment when a wandering albatross, the bird with the largest wingspan of any bird, arrived! The wandering albatross is the largest of all albatrosses, with a wingspan of up to 3.5 meters. It is here we find the boobies, shearwaters, gannets, petrels, and the albatross. On terra firma the young albatross is hopelessly clumsy, but once gliding, it's poetry on the wind. Now, researchers are using stronger bands to track birds like these long-lived albatross. All 21 species of albatross are now on the international Red List as a result of being caught and killed on longlines. In America, the term double eagle is used instead of albatross to describe such a feat! Thanks to his albatross and some solid golf thereafter he finished three under. Gary Evans has been a professional for 13 years and his albatross at the 4th hole was the first of his career. Their immaculate feathers impervious to sleet and rain, a pair of white-capped albatross engage in affectionate courtship rituals. Like a wingless albatross I plummeted two storeys into an overgrown plumbago. Two years ago, scientists described 5-million-year-old albatross fossils representing five different species. Queen Noor of Jordan is backing an albatross aptly named The Ancient Mariner. It's home to the threatened southern elephant seal, the fur seal, two species of albatross and several species of, yes, penguin. Show More Sentences The albatross has flown-the responsibility now rests on the observers of today and tomorrow to ensure it stays aloft. Instead, they see it as a problem, as a liability, as an albatross around our financial necks. Any sailor who shot an albatross would soak it overnight to get rid of the fishy taste, and make pies from it the next morning. Conservationists say unregulated fisheries in the southern oceans are endangering the albatross. In general, larger birds like the albatross tend to live longer than smaller species. The wandering albatross, king penguins, hundreds of pelagic birds, sea lions, and icebergs will be there, too. The world's largest flying bird, the wandering albatross, is in serious trouble because of longline tuna fishing in the sub-Antarctic Ocean. The world's biggest seabird, the wandering albatross, is in peril because of long-line fishing. In short, it was still an eagle and always had been-although the albatross was a very nice bird, too. But the men who rounded the Horn in the old square-riggers were really tough guys and the Association of Cape Horners adopted the albatross as its symbol. Throughout the voyage, giant petrels, wandering and black-browed albatross and pintado petrels followed the ship, providing me with constant opportunities for flight photos. The Scot's freshly-minted status as Olympic and US Open champion meant diddly to the free-swinging albatross from Lodz. Sometimes he took eggs from albatross nests. The Senkakus, Mr Tamori insists, were part of his known Okinawan world, not beyond it. And they caught the short-tailed albatross, which bred there, selling the prized feathers for down. But around 100,000 a year are slaughtered by longline fishing, and 19 of the 21 species of albatross are now threatened with extinction. He set up a bonito-processing station whose 200 employees also killed the once-abundant short-tailed albatross for its feathers. However, the sheer figures about threatened species, such as the albatross, should be enough to persuade the COP to take action to protect them. This was the first international meeting to which all Southern Hemisphere albatross and petrel Range States were invited. The great albatross, a threatened species with a long life span of up to 60 years, reproduces only every two years. Recent data revealed high concentrations of contaminants in endangered albatross species that winter on the Pacific coast. Show More Sentences The deal reached to end the shutdown did nothing to address the albatross of unpredictability. But the Ryan budget could become an albatross in the negotiations over the fiscal cliff. Age has become the albatross hanging on the neck of a generation of would-be mothers. I was particularly pleased to have seen some species of wildlife that do not venture as far north as the Falklands, such as the Antarctic fur seal and wandering albatross. A wandering albatross, for example, will only begin breeding between the ages of 7 and 11, and a pair will produce, at most, one chick every two years. Since then, with issues ranging from the environment to social justice to human rights, the leaden center has been an albatross weighing heavily against progress. From a lookout hut, we watched a royal albatross father trying hard to land, flying with slim wings three metres long in a circle, four or five times. This is true for minke whale, Antarctic fur seal, Adelie, chinstrap, gentoo and macaroni penguins, black-browed albatross, and white-chinned and cape petrels. Well, their closest relative has often been suggested as the petrels, albatross and shearwaters, but we don't know just how close these two groups are. In the March 2001 issue Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the Polar explorer, is Guest Editor and articles include a look at the plight of the albatross and Britain's sea coalers. All albatross colonies are on islands that historically were free of land mammals. In modern Portuguese, the word used for the bird, albatroz, is in turn derived from the English albatross. The albatross needs accurate airspeed measurement in order to perform dynamic soaring. For more data on fossil species of the living albatross genera, see the genus articles. Similar to the last was Plotornis, formerly often considered a petrel but now accepted as an albatross. They take advantage of the wind produced by the front of a wave in the same way as the albatross does. But some time after, I learned that goney was some seaman's name for albatross. Radio 2 offers the potential, especially when the albatross of the radio orchestra is removed, for artists in dozens of other genres to be heard nationally on record or from their own communities playing live. And if we refuse to deal with these issues today, then I guarantee you that they will be an albatross around our efforts to combat terrorism in the future. This bill will help ensure that borrowing money today to pay for post-secondary education will never create a crippling financial albatross from which former students cannot be freed until very far in the future. Show More Sentences In financial terms, the Québec government is like a bulky albatross that is unable to take flight, and our per capita public debt is the highest on the continent. All MEPs want a fair statute because it is an albatross around our neck and when they play this opportunist politics, it will be seized upon by the press, in my own country and other countries, to lambast Parliament. The MAI had, in brief, taken on such an omnibus, albatross character that it had become too difficult to be negotiated, and perhaps too heavy to fly. Birdlife has satellite tracking records for each of the 22 species of albatross in their Seabird Tracking Database. In all albatross species, both parents incubate the egg in stints that last between one day and three weeks. The English name albatross is also derived by corruption of the Spanish word. Valenti, chairman and CEO of the MPAA, describes the ratings system as both his pet project and an albatross around his neck. The Canadian Alliance is for reducing the national debt level so our children and grandchildren do not have it hanging over their heads like an albatross. Scores of dolphins, shoals of barracuda and basking fur seals provide a bonus as a graceful mollymawk, a small albatross, glides by. These requirements led to the maintenance of large security and military forces and a military-industrial complex that in the end became an albatross for the state. So says the old seafarer as – haunted by guilt and superstition – he relates how he doomed all aboard the vessel when he killed an innocent albatross that hovered overhead. For example, the northern royal albatross colony at Taiaroa Head in New Zealand attracts 40,000 visitors a year. Individual nesting sites can be widely spaced, as in an albatross colony, or densely packed as with a murre colony. Senator Hill opened the meeting, stressing the various factors of threat for the birds and the urgent need for international coordinated action to improve the conservation status of the albatross and petrel species. Leahy offers nontechnical yet pithy descriptions of birds, from albatross to wren, and definitions of terms, from aggression to zygodactyl. In between, there is the chance to be seasick or to stand enchanted for hours watching the sea rolling and unfolding as the albatross and the petrels swing beatless over the stern. Of the 21 albatross species recognised by IUCN on their Red List, 19 are threatened, and the other two are near threatened. The Falklands are also home to five different penguin species and a few of the largest albatross colonies on the planet. The Maori used the wing bones of the albatross to carve flutes. On Midway Atoll, collisions between Laysan albatross and aircraft have resulted in human and bird deaths as well as severe disruptions in military flight operations. Show More Sentences But the Mutton bird is pretty cool and is sort of mini albatross. The waved albatross has been observed practising kleptoparasitism, harassing boobies to steal their food, making it the only member of its order to do so regularly. The percentage of pair bonds that break ranges from nearly 100, in house martins and greater flamingos, to roughly zero in Australian ravens and the waved albatross. Watchet, the closest seaside town, is home to a statue depicting the sad Ancient Mariner who slew the albatross in the poem by Samuel Coleridge, a resident of the area. Then the albatross makes a tight turn downwind and swoops down into another wave trough, adding airspeed as it descends through the wind shear into progressively slower winds. The taxonomy of the albatross group has been a source of much debate. Fame has become an albatross that prevents her from leading a normal and happy life. I'd never given the plight of the Laysan albatross a moment's thought. An estimated 100,000 albatross per year are killed in this fashion. Thus, our working hypothesis is that albatross chicks geographically imprint on their future breeding location some time between one month of age and fledging. Based on the work on albatross genera, Robertson and Nunn went on in 1998 to propose a revised taxonomy with 24 different species, compared to the 14 then accepted. Examples from Classical Literature We shall skim the prairies and leap the mountains, and roam over the ocean like the wandering albatross. The wandering albatross, the largest of the genus, is a well-known bird in the southern seas, following ships for many miles. The sharpened albatross bone used by the Maori tattooer, had five times scored his countenance. These remains belong to a swimming bird of the albatross species, and a wading bird like a snipe. The great peterel is as large as the common albatross, and is carnivorous. The albatross soon after wore ship, and stood to the westward. Then the albatross steers out to sea to try his luck elsewhere. The albatross is a knowing bird, or he would not follow vessels for weeks. Then when to the sailors all hope seemed lost, an albatross came sailing through the fog. Yet whales and seals, petrels and albatross, are exceedingly abundant throughout this part of the ocean. The black and white pictures include relaxing iguana and sea lions, hawks, boobies, sea wolves, albatross, cactus and rocks. Only once, too, did we catch an albatross, the bird of the Southern Ocean. Bethink thee of the albatross, whence come those clouds of spiritual wonderment and pale dread, in which that white phantom sails in all imaginations? Find more words! 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