There are hundreds of different types of birds including five types of penguins, albatrosses, and cara caras. |
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Ornithologists have recorded single feeding trips of 15,000 kilometers by nesting wandering albatrosses. |
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In 2002, there were four albatrosses on the PGA Tour, versus 40 holes-in-one. |
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A fishing centre, Steward Island attracts a population of mollymawks, small albatrosses with wingspans of nearly eight feet. |
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The locations have substantial populations of wandering albatrosses which are under threat through long-lining activities. |
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We'll look for giant woodpeckers, albatrosses, steamer ducks, guanacos, sea otters and red and gray foxes. |
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The breeding behavior of wandering albatrosses is much like that of the frigatebirds I have studied, but it is anomalous among birds in general. |
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Giant petrels, wandering albatrosses, penguins and other sea birds are getting caught in fishing tackle and dying by the tens of thousands. |
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No-one is hanging albatrosses around the necks of the writers or of the responders. |
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As expected groups such as the albatrosses, diving petrels, gadfly petrels, prions, and shearwaters were all monophyletic. |
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As a result, Taiaroa Head is the only place in the world where albatrosses nest on a mainland. |
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You can find this same remarkable system in humans, albatrosses, rattlesnakes, bullfrogs, and all other land vertebrates. |
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In addition to sheathbills, he worked on albatrosses, petrels, penguins, and terrestrial invertebrates. |
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Seabirds, particularly albatrosses and petrels, regularly grab the baited hooks. |
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Among oceangoing avian species, albatrosses and frigatebirds are the quintessential seabirds. |
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The wandering albatross is the largest of all albatrosses, with a wingspan of up to 3.5 meters. |
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It's penguins, albatrosses, caracaras, steamer ducks and a couple of endemic small jobs you've come for. |
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It was like a thousand albatrosses around England supporters' necks every five minutes. |
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Intended to lure tuna, swordfish, and other creatures, fish bait on longlines is equally attractive to albatrosses. |
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You can also observe the colonies of penguins, albatrosses and elephant seals that occupy the islands. |
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Conservationists estimate that as many as 100,000 albatrosses and 200,000 other birds are killed each year when they get hooked on the fishing lines and drown. |
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The Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge is the nesting ground for some two million seabirds spanning 15 species, including the Laysan albatrosses. |
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Gulls and albatrosses, with their long, narrow wings flapping infrequently, sail along the beaches or over the waves. |
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Those deals were already looking like albatrosses before they fouled up the team's chances to keep Lin. |
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Some are just mudflats, some just sandbanks, many are rocky outcrops and skerries known only to seals, albatrosses, and retired lighthouse-keepers. |
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Wandering albatrosses, Wilson's stormy petrels, Cape petrels and brown-browed albatrosses kept us entertained us with their flights across the waves. |
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It is a vital home for seabirds, including burrowing petrels and albatrosses as well as two endangered bird species found nowhere else. |
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They show us that albatrosses associate with marine mammals in the same way as tropical seabirds often do with tuna. |
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The amazing pictures reveal albatrosses foraging in groups while at sea collecting food for their chicks. |
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Another cause of mortality for albatrosses is a cable that forms part of the sonar equipment on some trawlers. |
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It was noted that other fishing methods are giving increasing cause for concern with respect to albatrosses and petrels. |
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The decrease in population sizes of different species of albatrosses and petrels is a cause of world wide concern. |
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Therefore you will find albatrosses frequently flying over very windy seas blowing from west to east across the southern oceans. |
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In addition to the wandering, we also were entranced by royal and shy albatrosses, as well as Cape and giant petrels, fairy prions and fluttering shearwaters. |
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For me, it will always be a trip of a lifetime, as we were soon surrounded by a bewildering assortment of albatrosses, shearwaters and petrels, each a new species for us. |
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The black frigatebirds, with their sharply angled wings, ride rising thermals, whereas the white albatrosses, with their long narrow wings, catch a lift on a cold gale. |
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Fishing experts estimate that about 60,000 sea birds including about 2,000 giant petrels and around 10,000 albatrosses are killed this way every year. |
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But seabirds such as albatrosses and petrels, which have large, tubular nostrils, are known to use scent clues to locate nesting sites and prey out at sea. |
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The convention's scientific committee says since 1996 pirate longliners have killed up to 144,000 albatrosses and 400,000 petrels in Antarctic waters alone. |
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Of course, philosophically speaking, where humans differ from other species is that they are self-conscious, in a way that albatrosses and flatworms just don't seem to be. |
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However, some seabirds, particularly, the albatrosses and gulls, have broken into popular consciousness. |
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The albatrosses are usually regarded as falling into four genera, but there is disagreement over the number of species. |
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Eyes blazing red and chests puffed out, the diminutive rockhoppers bicker incessantly while the larger, and calmer, albatrosses preen. |
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After the fourth meeting of the Scientific Council a working group was established to make progress towards a draft Agreement for the conservation of albatrosses, with Australia taking the lead. |
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Australia, a keen supporter of the conservation of albatrosses, had pursued the promotion of an agreement on the conservation of 14 species, identifying key contacts in the relevant states of the southern hemisphere. |
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Within the same circle with the pigeons, were beautiful albatrosses, poising and minueting with them in the most pleasing fellowship. |
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With regard to southern albatrosses and petrels, there has of course been considerable progress, particularly in the conclusion of the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels. |
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Perfluorooctanesulfonate and related fluorochemicals in albatrosses, elephant seals, penguins, and polar skuas from the Southern Ocean. |
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Uruguay had not ratified because of problems with unpaid contributions to United Nations organisations, but would nonetheless organise a conference on albatrosses and petrels. |
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The albatrosses are among the largest flying birds, with long, narrow wings for gliding. |
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These show that the split between the great albatrosses and the North Pacific albatrosses occurred by 15 mya. |
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Several species of mollymawks and North Pacific albatrosses have face markings like eye patches or have grey or yellow on the head and nape. |
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A common assumption is that albatrosses must be able to sleep in flight, although no direct evidence has ever been obtained. |
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When taking off, albatrosses need to take a run up to allow enough air to move under the wing to provide lift. |
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Most albatrosses range in the Southern Hemisphere from Antarctica to Australia, South Africa and South America. |
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The use of satellite tracking is teaching scientists a great deal about the way albatrosses forage across the ocean to find food. |
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In spite of often being accorded legendary status, albatrosses have not escaped either indirect or direct pressure from humans. |
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In 1909 alone over 300,000 albatrosses were killed on Midway Island and Laysan Island for their plumes. |
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Another threat to albatrosses is introduced species, such as rats or feral cats, which directly attack albatrosses or their chicks and eggs. |
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For the study, scientists attached highly sensitive GPS trackers to 16 wandering albatrosses in the Indian Ocean, the Independent reported. |
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Sea birds were plentiful including Black Browed, Royal and Wandering albatrosses. |
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However, activities to conserve marine mammals, turtles, albatrosses, and ungulates in arid regions, will require CMS to intensify its contacts and co-operation with a number of global and regional conventions. |
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The large albatrosses are actually dependent on strong winds to allow them to glide the enormous distances that they need to cover in order to find the squid that are their main prey. |
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The purpose of these agreements is the exchange of information and expertise that would assist in minimising the incidental by-catch of albatrosses and petrels. |
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The first study of how individual wandering albatrosses find food shows that the birds rely heavily on their sense of smell. |
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A variety of birds are found: from blue foot, red footed and masked boobies, flamingos, frigate birds, and albatrosses, to unique small penguins and non-flying cormorants. |
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This is home to thousands of wandering albatrosses, giant petrels, penguins and fur seals. |
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With fantastic action that's both exciting and funny, Pixar's pacy cartoon puts 3D albatrosses like Avatar in the shade. |
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These nesters include species of albatrosses, petrels, skuas, gulls and terns. |
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The birds are laid out in alphabetical order, from albatrosses to zosteropidae, with some familiar owls and robins in between, and also many exotic examples, such as the ibis, jacana and quetzal. |
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It was there that my husband, 13-year-old son and I spent a morning atop the area's sandstone cliffs, spying humpback whales, soaring albatrosses and flocks of rainbow lorikeet. |
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The most common species caught were the black-browed and yellow-nosed albatrosses, white-chinned and spectacled petrels, and the great shearwater. |
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For the birdwatchers, this was another glorious day: 13 species in one day, all belonging to the big family of albatrosses, shearwaters and storm petrels, the open sea specialists. |
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The North Pacific albatrosses are considered to be a sister taxon to the great albatrosses, while the sooty albatrosses are considered closer to the mollymawks. |
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The name Diomedea, assigned to the albatrosses by Linnaeus, references the mythical metamorphosis of the companions of the Greek warrior Diomedes into birds. |
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The tubes of all albatrosses are along the sides of the bill, unlike the rest of the Procellariiformes where the tubes run along the top of the bill. |
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Among his subjects are such exotics as Bengal tigers, large and small crabs, emperor penguins, giant squid, kookaburras, meerkats, pronghorn, and wandering albatrosses. |
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The Antarctic island of South Georgia is home to millions of king penguins and emperor penguins, as well as colonies of elephant seals and albatrosses. |
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They give clear descriptions of physical characteristics and habitats and even provide a handy species checklist to record your loons, grebes, rorquals, terns and albatrosses. |
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Ships in the Passage are often good platforms for the sighting of whales, dolphins and seabirds including giant petrels, other petrels, albatrosses and penguins. |
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Feral cats are capable of taking seabirds as large as albatrosses, and many introduced rodents, such as the Pacific rat, can take eggs hidden in burrows. |
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