Sentences with phrase «size of an albatross»

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.

Not exact matches

In contrast, migration ranges of soaring birds, illustrated by raptors, vultures, and albatrosses that migrate globally with minimal energy consumption, are larger than those of flapping birds and independent of body size.

A new study from The Condor: Ornithological Applications provides the first direct estimates of the population size and annual survival of young birds in Oahu's Laysan Albatross population, giving important new insights into the demographics of these «prebreeders.»

The animal measured 6.4 meters from wingtip to wingtip, about the length of a 10 - passenger limousine and approaching twice the size of the wandering albatross, today's wingspan record - holder.

These giant seabirds — all of them extinct and all the size of today's albatrosses or larger — ranged worldwide, because their fossils have been found on all continents.

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

And there, like a feathered nation, half a million goose - sized albatross chicks await foraging parents who may be gone for weeks in search of food.

However, its massive size and short battery life are an albatross around the neck of an otherwise great laptop.