1. Albatrosses

2. The great Albatrosses themselves form two species complexes, the wandering and Amsterdam Albatrosses, …

3. The four genera are the great Albatrosses (Diomedea), the mollymawks (Thalassarche), the North Pacific Albatrosses (Phoebastria), and the sooty Albatrosses or sooties (Phoebetria

4. ‘Petrels, Albatrosses, cormorants, frigatebirds, gulls etc

5. The great Albatrosses are seabirds in the genus Diomedea in the albatross family.The genus Diomedea formerly included all Albatrosses except the sooty Albatrosses, but in 1996 the genus was split, with the mollymawks and the North Pacific Albatrosses both being elevated to separate genera

6. Albatrosses can be distinguished from the other […]

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8. Antipodean Albatrosses are smaller than Wandering Albatrosses, and breed in predominantly brown plumage, but are otherwise difficult to distinguish from Wanderers.

9. Wandering Albatrosses have long been considered exceptional creatures

10. Laysan Albatrosses soar across the ocean for fish

11. Laysan Albatrosses are numerous, though they face threats

12. Albatrosses are among the largest of flying birds, and the great Albatrosses (genus Diomedea) have the largest wingspans of any extant (living) birds.

13. The Albatrosses[1] are minor characters in Finding Nemo

14. Robbing efficiency was clearly higher in albatrosses than gulls.

15. Albatrosses are large seabirds which belong to the biological family Diomedeidae

16. Albatrosses often congregate in the same areas where boats fish

17. Albatrosses take several years to get their full adult breeding plumage.

18. Female Laysan Albatrosses may bond for life and cooperatively raise their young

19. It is no wonder that these Albatrosses can sail around the world

20. Albatrosses and large petrels have wide annual ranges spanning all major ocean basins.

21. Out of the 23 species of Albatrosses, the most famous is the wandering albatross

22. The young albatrosses won't be back to breed for another 5 or 6 years

23. Albatrosses are big, majestic birds that can be found soaring above most of the world’s oceans

24. The Albatross is a bird, of course, and some Albatrosses are quite large with impressive wingspans

25. In the year before Gould's arrival a thousand albatrosses were killed on Albatross Island alone.

26. Female and male Albatrosses go their separate ways to go fishing, and the males appear …

27. Albatrosses are large seabirds in the biological family Diomedeidae of the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses)

28. Albatrosses of the southern oceans are most numerous in the stormy latitudes between 40 and 50 degrees

29. 19 rows  · This article lists Albatrosses that have been scored in important golf …

30. Albatrosses are big, majestic birds that can be found soaring above most of the world’s oceans

31. Under the auspices of CMS there is an Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP)[35].

32. The great Albatrosses are predominantly white in plumage as adults, with birds becoming whiter as they age.

33. The opposite extreme is to find one individual and share all the duties of parenthood equally, as albatrosses do.

34. Albatrosses (Diomedeidae) The word Albatross is supposedly an English corruption of the Portuguese word ‘alcatraz’ meaning large seabird

35. The wandering albatrosses, for example, spend nine months of the year on the wing in the southern hemisphere.

36. As a result, penguins and albatrosses already experience difficulty rearing their offspring in areas such as South Georgia.

37. Intraspecific and interspecific kleptoparasitism were significantly more frequent than expected in Kelp Gulls and Black-browed Albatrosses, respectively.

38. Investigate methods to identify and describe marine critical habitat in Canada and other jurisdictions, and determine how or whether these apply to Short-tailed Albatrosses or Pink-footed Shearwaters in Canada. Outcome/Rationale Determination of whether critical habitat applies to Short-tailed Albatrosses and Pink-footed Shearwaters.

39. "There are few more beautiful sights in nature than that of graceful Albatrosses flying into the setting sun

40. Endemic Amsterdam Albatrosses and petrels are among the albatross endangered by most threatened birds introduced predators in the world.

41. Wandering Albatrosses are great gliders – they can soar through the sky without flapping their wings for several hours at a time.

42. Albatross landings were basically “controlled crashing”, he said, and unlike juvenile Albatrosses the bird was unlikely to feel embarrassed by the …

43. Wandering Albatrosses have the largest wingspan of any bird in the world today, stretching up to 3.5 metres across

44. Each time in the last century that people have extended a helping hand to Albatrosses, they’ve met us halfway

45. This results in the death of tens of thousands of Albatrosses and other seabirds each year (Brothers et al., 2010

46. Because of their tameness on land, many Albatrosses are known by the common names mollymawk (from the Dutch for “foolish gull”) and gooney.

47. A further 7 species of petrels listed under the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP) face similar threats[12].

48. There are 23 species of Albatrosses, though arguably the most famous is the wandering Albatross ( Diomedea exulans ), which is the largest flying …

49. Laysan Albatrosses (Phoebastria immutabilis) are incredible birds.They have a wingspan of more than 6 feet, soaring vast distances without flapping their wings

50. Albatrosses and their close relatives, the large petrels, are among the world's most-threatened animals, with over half of the species at risk of extinction

51. Weighing up to 11.3 kg (25 lbs) and with wingspans of nearly 4 m (12 ft) Albatrosses are among the world’s larger birds

52. Laysan Albatrosses are numerous, though they face threats from longline fishing, plastic trash in the ocean, and predation by dogs, rats, and cats

53. The Albatrosses are the largest pelagic seabirds in the world, with some having wingspans over 10', as is the case with the Wandering Albatross

54. Albatrosses are long-lived seabirds that have long impressed those who travel the oceans, although this admiration has not prevented them from being killed in large numbers

55. Expressing concern also at the reports of continued loss of seabirds, particularly albatrosses, as a result of incidental mortality from longline fishing operations, and the loss of other marine species, including sharks and fin-fish species, as a result of incidental mortality, and noting the recent initiative to develop a convention for the protection of southern hemisphere albatrosses and petrels,

56. The Albatrosses comprise between 13 and 24 species (the number of species is still a matter of some debate, 21 being the most commonly accepted number) in 4 genera

57. Charles Baudelaire's collection of poems Les Fleurs du mal contains a poem entitled "L'Albatros" (1857) about men on ships who catch the Albatrosses for sport

58. As the line is being played out from the moving vessel, Albatrosses sometimes pick up the bait just before the weight of the sinking line pulls them underwater

59. Often, to amuse themselves, the men of a crew Catch Albatrosses, those vast sea birds That indolently follow a ship As it glides over the deep, briny sea

60. Reaching a wingspan of 2.5 metres, black-browed Albatrosses breed on these Sub-antarctic Islands during the austral summer, laying a single egg in October that will hatch in December.

61. >70% of the world’s Laysan Albatrosses nest on Midway Atoll NWR, 99% nest in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands; Military activity killed many birds on Midway Atoll during World War II

62. “Seabirds like Albatrosses are the ultimate globetrotters,” said Martin Beal, lead author of the study at the Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre at ISPA – Instituto Universitário in Lisbon, Portugal

63. Typical of many seabird species, Black-footed Albatrosses have delayed sexual maturity such that first breeding may be at age eight or later, and they raise only one chick each year.

64. Losses of eggs or chicks through desertion, storms, interference from other albatrosses, accidental egg puncturing, disease, parasites and the rolling of eggs from nests are potential, but unquantified, sources of mortality (Hasegawa and DeGange 1982).

65. Sea level rises associated with climate change may ultimately decrease the availability of nesting habitat at the low-lying atolls where a high proportion of the global population of Black-footed Albatrosses breed.

66. Calls on the Commission to take into account the available scientific opinion on albatrosses which, notably in long line fisheries, are currently being killed at a rate that is putting them in danger of extinction; Or. en

67. The baited hooks of international fishing vessels are fatally attractive to these birds, which become hooked and drown in large numbers - an estimated 100,000 albatrosses, of 21 species, have been dying on longlines every year.

68. Three Albatross species, the Black-footed Albatross and the two sooty Albatrosses, vary completely from the usual patterns and are almost entirely dark brown (or dark gray in places in the case of the Light-mantled Sooty Albatross)

69. When young Albatrosses are old enough to leave the nest (at about 5 1/2 months), they spend the next three years at sea! They will sleep and eat at sea, not touching land for years

70. Are mysterious and inspiring birds: often the subject of poetic stories and lots of myths around the world.’ ‘There are hundreds of different types of birds including five types of penguins, Albatrosses, and cara caras (a rare bird of prey).’

71. The researchers from the Cambridge-based British Antarctic Survey and the National Institute of Polar Research in Japan attached a miniature digital camera to the back of four black-browed albatrosses (Thalassarche melanophrys) breeding on Bird Island, South Georgia in the Southern Atlantic Ocean.

72. Black-footed Albatrosses, although there has been a decrease in the number of this species recorded in the California Current system, concurrent with an apparently minor PDO-linked increase (0.7 oC) in average sea surface temperature (Ainley and Divoky 2001; Crick 2004; see Habitat trends section, above).

73. One birdbecame greatly interested in the bright aluminum cap to my tripod and strolledup and examined it with both eye and beak, appearing somewhat Astonishedwhen the cap tinkled.Winter.?During July and August the young albatrosses learn tofly and to follow their parents out to sea in search of food, afterwhich both young and old birds begin to

74. The Birds (a volume of the Life Nature Library) gives more details, saying: “Soaring birds, with a large sail surface in proportion to their weight, fall into two very different types: (1) those with broad wings and fanlike tails as exemplified by many of the hawks, eagles and vultures, and (2) those with extremely long but relatively narrow wings, ocean wanderers such as gulls, frigate birds and albatrosses.”

75. Other States pointed out that they participate in subregional and regional organizations with mandates to conserve non-target species taken incidentally in fishing operations (the United States), such as the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (EC), the Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans in the Baltic and North Seas, the Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area, the Agreement for the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (France (in the process of ratification), New Zealand, Spain and the United Kingdom) and the Inter-American Convention for the Protection and Conservation of Sea Turtles and their Habitats (United States