Albatrosses in a sentence

In some bird species, albatrosses, greylag geese, gulls and terns, many of the nests are cared for by female-female pairs.

We discovered that the way wandering albatrosses use their sense of sound may be crucial.

Jon Plissner, supervisory wildlife biologist at the refuge, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that Wisdom was one of two to three million Laysan albatrosses who travel to Midway to breed.

Marion Island is home to a quarter of the world’s wandering albatrosses and is a critical breeding site for the threatened birds, which breed only once every two years to raise a single chick.

The wingspan of Laysan albatrosses can reach up to 80 inches, and they can travel more than 930 miles in search of food.

Penguins were present then, as they are now, but fossil relatives of ducks, falcons and albatrosses have also been found in Antarctica.

She was revolted and shocked when she first witnessed the mice "scalping" and then literally eating the albatrosses alive.

Steve Jobs wasn’t exaggerating when he described the iPhone as a kind of magical object, and it’s truly wild that in the span of a few years, we’ve managed to turn these amazing talismanic tools into stress-inducing albatrosses.

Albatrosses and other seabirds are not dying excruciating deaths as a result of swallowing bits of waterlogged brown paper, are they?

Religious and ethnic crises have since the 80s become albatrosses around our neck and one of the major challenges for Nigeria’s nation-building project despite the various strategies the country has adopted to reduce the national conflicts.

This allowed him to get up close to the albatrosses while filming his documentary, which released last month.

Albatrosses are not the only species to suffer from the plastic pollution; sea turtles and monk seals also consume the debris.

As many as 100,000 albatrosses are hooked and drown each year on tuna lines set out by long-line fisheries.

Brooke, 2004. p. 126 The albatrosses in general feed on fish, squid and krill.

Environment Albatrosses at Midway Atoll Marine debris with Laysan albatross chicks Midway Atoll is a critical habitat in the central Pacific Ocean.

Four others then learned to copy the behaviour. citation Behaviour Association of killer whales and Black-browed albatrosses Day-to-day killer whale behaviour generally consists of foraging, travelling, resting and socializing.

Only a single egg is laid per nesting attempt, and usually only a single nesting attempt is made per year, although the larger albatrosses may only nest once every two years.

The albatrosses and petrels are "amongst the most severely threatened taxa worldwide".

These nurture high levels of phytoplankton with associated copepods and krill, and resultant foodchains supporting fish, whales, seals, penguins, albatrosses and a wealth of other species.

These pair bonds take several years to develop in some species, particularly with the albatrosses.