Sentences with word «auk»

Then, using a framework of metal, she constructed skeletal replicas of birds that no longer exist, including this great auk of Iceland, a penguin - like bird that plied the North Atlantic waters until the mid-1800s.

«Our study shows that adult little auks usually go to their limit, to their caring maximum, in order to give their offspring enough to eat,» says Palme.

You'd have to take care of your flight from AUK to SYD and your fees might be a little higher since your flights might not include just United, but for 120,000 miles, getting to New Zealand, Australia, and French Polynesia is superb, even if you have to shell out a little in fees.

This species is a small black and white auk with a small head and thin sharp bill.

Nests in large breeding colonies on steep coastal cliffs or offshore islands, often mixed with other auks and seabirds.

Check out the SAAver seats below for business class from LAX - > AUK flying American to Sydney and then Qantas to Auckland.

To give you the briefest of overviews, you play the part of a young lady called Auk.

PAC - UK delivers the @AdoptionUK England Helpline referenced on @BBCTheOneShow tonight by AUK Chief Exec @SueAB68 We offer a range of support services for all parties affected by adoption and permanency.

They also are of interest for their long lifespan and because little auks raise only a single chick during the year, which excludes sibling rivalry as a factor in stress studies.

Guess you think auks and penguins are also related.

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Who knew that the ostrich is one of the few birds with a mammal - like phallus, that warblers lay down their own weight in fat to fuel their annual migrations, or that every year the flightless and now extinct great auk paddled a round trip between sub-Arctic breeding grounds and Florida summer - feeding sites?

doi: 10.1642 / AUK -17-26.1.

Little auk chicks intensify begging for food when feeling stressed.

The last auks were caught in Iceland and their insides reside in alcohol in Copenhagen.

In 1971, word came to Reykjavik that one of the few remaining stuffed auks — caught in 1820, 24 years before the species became extinct — was to be auctioned at Sotheby's in London.

After visiting the unfortunate auk, you may stroll across town and dine on one of his close relatives, a razorbill or a puffin.

Changing temperatures may adversely affect some species but the feisty little auks swarming about this observation blind appear to take the changes in stride.

Researchers have found that little auks adjust their eating habits to the available conditions.

Tom Gilbert, from the University of Copenhagen, said that his initial sequencing of the Great Auk genome showed that its living relative, the razorbill, is even more closely related than previously thought.

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Seabirds including fulmars, gannets, kittiwakes and auks including everybody's favourite, the puffin, have made the cliffs at Troup Head their home for the last 6 months.

Auks occur mostly in the Northern Hemisphere.

While often compared to penguins, which occur in the Southern Hemisphere, the similarities auks share with penguins are due to convergent evolution, whereby organisms not closely related develop similar traits as a result of having to adapt to similar environments.

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For business class, though, it's not always that bad and I found a decent amount of open seats for the SIN to AUK segment for dates about 6 to 7 months out.

Flew premium ecomomy AUK to Tokyo with Air NZ.

Talking to inhabitants of the Settlement sets them off rambling about gods, rituals and the pilgrimage Auk must undertake.

The resulting film Apology to the Great Auk documents a sincere attempt by the community of Fogo Island, through the specially appointed apology committee, to respond and learn from the loss of what can only now be imagined.

Extinct within the past couple hundred years on this coast: The eastern bison, the Carolina parakeet, the passenger pigeon, the Labrador duck, the Newfoundland wolf, the sea mink, the giant auk.

A while ago, auk did a conference on mental health.

Craveri's murrelet is considered by some to be one of the more endangered species of auk.

Unlike many other auks, the Cassin's auklet lacks dramatic breeding plumage, remaining the same over most of the year.

First, when I input routes from the West Coast to New Zealand, like SFO - > AUK, I get an error message that states:

AUK chief exec @SueAB68 recently spoke to BBC Radio Devon about the challenges and benefits involved in setting up a proposed regional adoption agency in the South West.

Now we just need Singapore to give us a nonstop to SIN and get someone to fly to AUK with decent award availability.

For the long - lived little auks, it is more important to secure their own existence, to survive another year and to raise another offspring in the future.

What did you use to shred the auk?

A new Review in The Auk: Ornithological Advances examines answers from three sources — modern birds, fossils of primitive birds, and fossils of the dinosaurs from which birds are descended — to shed new light on the subject.

TheAmerican passenger pigeon, the Carolina parakeet and the Great Auk — once well - established in North America — disappeared.

And when one parent is feeling foul, irregularities in this grooming ritual may send the other a signal that all is not well, researchers report in the July issue of The Auk: Ornithological Advances.

The Auk: Ornithological Advances.

The latest Supplement to the American Ornithologists» Union Check - list of North American Birds was published this week in The Auk: Ornithological Advances, and includes several major updates to the organization of the continent's bird species.

A recent review concluded that the wild population would disappear without the detox programme (The Auk, DOI: 10.1525 / auk.2010.127.4.969).