Sentences with phrase «of albatross»

«For too long the Fish and Wildlife Service has watched while thousands of albatross chicks died needlessly every year,» said Shaye Wolf, a Center biologist.

The IUCN lists 22 species of albatross from vulnerable to critically endangered.

My own $ 0.02 is that while I'm a fan of RRSP's, I just can't shake the instinct that getting ridding of that albatross of a loan (you may know it as a mortgage) ASAP is a good idea.

Commercial fishing boats also kill tens of thousands of albatrosses and hundreds of thousands of other seabirds, mostly by longline fishing.

A little while ago there was a show about an area in the Pacific Ocean where plastic drifted and the albatross thinking it was food fed it to their young and as a result there is a diminished population of albatross.

Asik's contract is the definition of an albatross.

They can make all the crappy moves they want and replace Suh with crap, but for a couple of years now, people have been talking about how much of an albatross Suh's contract was.

Andrew Jarrett and Garrett Sell of Albatross Investments have put... [Read more...]

But don't be fooled: a 2006 genetic study found that more than 10 per cent of albatross chicks had a father that was not their mother's partner.

TRANSMITTERS attached to the backs of albatrosses have pinpointed the places where the great birds go fishing — and found that they choose the same spots as rogue fishing fleets hunting for tuna and other valuable fish.

«This is the first demonstration of the magnitude of overlap between the unregulated long - line fisheries and the foraging areas of the albatrosses,» says Croxall.

The runner - up was a close - up of an albatross feeding her chick, and other images ranging from huddled penguin chicks to a visualization of simulations of predator - prey interactions and the evolution of camouflage earned recognition as the best photos on various subfields, such as behavioral and physiological ecology, landscape ecology, and ecosystems and theoretical ecology and models.

The prehistoric bird Pelagornis sandersi, with its 24 - foot wingspan — more than twice the wingspan of the albatross — was an unparalleled ocean soarer.

But fossil fragments unearthed in western Canada suggest that these giant flying reptiles co-existed with a more diminutive form — closer to the size of an albatross.

It's become a bit of an albatross,» complains Andrew Bolton, curator of the New York Metropolitan museum's costume institute (he's from Blackburn, Lancashire, and loved the New...

The title alone is enough of an albatross around its neck (all indications are that it was hurriedly tacked onto a spec script), but an out - of - the - blue, utterly gripping trailer that announced the pic's existence a mere two months prior to release ends up its greatest foe.

Cast: Jeff Bridges, Caroline Goodall, John Savage, Scott Wolf, Jeremy Sisto, Ryan Phillippe Small role: Balthazar Getty, Ethan Embry Director: Ridley Scott Screenplay: Todd Robinson (based on the book, «The Last Voyage of the Albatross», by Charles Gieg Jr. and Felix Sutton) Review published January 3, 1998

The 4G version of the tablet also became somewhat of an albatross for T - Mobile as it could not move enough units to justify further support, which led both Dell and T - Mobile to essentially abandon it while Dell continued to support the Wi - Fi version with updates.

Look for the huge wings of the albatross and other local species like red - footed boobies.

Excitement mounts amongst the birders on board, all now on full alert and scanning the horizon for the ultimate prize — their first sighting of an albatross off the Cape of Good Hope.

Further out to sea where the continental shelf drops off, the region is one of Australia's best pelagic birding sites, with an abundance of albatross across winter months, shearwaters in summer months, with petrels, gannets, skuas, terns and gulls also present.

He talks smack, calls you a «damn fool,» and threatens you with the power of the Albatross.

With the help of Albatross, recently returned from a performance at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, and Carroll, the trio performed a dynamic work within an installation of several kinds of radios and video game.

Here's an excerpt from the release, followed by some valuable context from the biologist (and frequent Dot Earth voice) Carl Safina, whose books include the marvelous «Eye of the Albatross ``:

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.

And, with the bird's tenacity to survive, even though they once faced almost certain extinction, perhaps one day the gentle chirping of Albatross chicks will be heard yet again throughout the Pacific.

But today's study looks at two species of Albatross native to the central North Pacific — the black - footed albatross and Laysan albatross.

The entire region faces problems, in many cases driven by overfishing, and there has even been alarm about the condition of the albatross as it circles the southern ocean.

Stomach contents of an albatross chick photographed in the Pacific in 2009.

The Caridean Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition 1907 - 1910, pt.

And the bits and pieces are everywhere, even in the nests of albatross chicks, ending up here most likely because a parent brought it back as food for either its current or past chicks.

But there is some good news to come out of the albatross world this week.

We've seen the sad images of albatross skeletons filled to bursting with plastic debris, the decaying outline of a chick or adult with the rainbow center.

Their daily tasks include monitoring the health of the albatross populations, keeping the Laysan Teal habitat safe from botulism, battling the invasive weeds and planting native plants, cleaning beaches and much, much more.

Statement Piece: With its dark background and large scale, this simple, powerful photo of an albatross is the perfect dramatic art for the otherwise airy space.

Of course they want to get rid of the albatross, but who wants a timeshare business?

Photo opportunities at near point blank range abound and the group is treated to scintillating views of several species of albatross, petrels, including Pintado (or Cape Pigeon), both Northern and Southern Giant Petrels, shearwaters, skuas, and gannets along with a chance of an extremely rare sighting of a vagrant species such as Antarctic Fulmar or a «stonking» great Royal Albatross.

«The fence is doing its job,» said Eric VanderWerf, a biologist who, with his wife, Lindsay C. Young, is studying populations of albatrosses and shearwaters on a grant from the Packard Foundation.

For one, Wall Street is applauding the pullback: Target shares rose nearly 3 % on the news and there is the sense that Target investors feel they are ridding themselves of an albatross.

Many people find it difficult to practice good credit habits until they've rid themselves of the albatross of debt.

Despite their small size, house mice have been recorded eating live chicks of albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters.

Seabirds include four species of albatross: black - browed albatross (Diomedea melanophris), grey - headed albatross (Thalassarche chrysostoma), light - mantled albatross (Phoebetria palpebrata), and wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans).

There are up to 12 species of albatross plus penguins, gannets, skuas, shearwaters, petrels and terns using the waters off Kaikoura as their feeding ground.

Two species of albatross: the Amsterdam Albatross and the Chatham Albatross are considered critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.