Sentences with phrase «kill albatross»
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Black - footed albatross: A large, dark - plumed seabird that lives in northwestern Hawaii, the black - footed albatross is threatened by longline swordfish fisheries, which kill it as bycatch.
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Destroying the Albatross, killing Master D, and escaping the complex were all easy, hence there was nothing to distract you from the dramatic feeling of the moment.
The tsunami of last year killed an estimated 110,000 Laysan and Black - Footed albatross chicks, which means bumper seasons for new chicks are needed more than ever.
However, the atoll faces tough battles every day: invasive plant species that damage the habitat of albatross and burrowing petrels often killing them; deadly plastic pollution, much of which ends up in the stomachs of chicks; climate change that causes ever larger and more lethal storms.
The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan killed an estimated 110,000 Laysan and black - footed albatross chicks — about 22 percent of this year's young — at Midway Atoll, where more than two - thirds of the world's Laysan albatross nest.
Scientists last year reported that lead poisoning is killing up to 10,000 chicks per year on Midway, affecting the long - term survival of the Laysan albatross.
SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service this week announced its intent to begin cleaning up toxic, lead - based paint at federal facilities on Midway Atoll that kills up to 10,000 Laysan albatross chicks each year and also threatens the endangered Laysan duck.
Commercial fishing boats also kill tens of thousands of albatrosses and hundreds of thousands of other seabirds, mostly by longline fishing.
About 110,000 Laysan and black - footed albatross chicks were killed by the tsunami and two severe winter storms on January 14th and February 11th.
(Washington, D.C., September 9, 2011) An endangered Short - tailed Albatross was killed by a longline fishing boat off the coast of Oregon in April 2011, according to a report recently released by the Pacific Fisheries Management Council.
As these albatrosses kill themselves off, technology and economics will come to the rescue.