Sentences with phrase «thousands of albatrosses»

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

Thousands of albatross, southern petrels and king cormorants ride the breeze, while down on the beaches platoons of king and gentoo penguins and elephant seals waddle and posture.

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At the top, there's a lighthouse, a tiny church, and a modern sculpture of a stylized albatross commemorating the hundreds of ships and thousands of lives that were lost plying the surrounding perilous waters.

The albatross's ability to fly for thousands of kilometres over oceans with barely a flap of its wings has inspired the concept of a diminutive, ship - launched spotter plane that flies great distances by employing some of the bird's lift - generating techniques.

Wandering albatrosses (Diomedea exulans) can fly thousands of kilometers to forage at sea — with barely a flap of their long, graceful wings.

Every year, thousands of seabirds and marine mammals ranging from herons, pelicans, and albatross to sea otters, sea turtles, fur seals, dolphins, and whales swallow or become entangled in this debris.

It's part of the Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge, where thousands of migratory seabirds, such as red - footed boobies, great frigatebirds and albatross, rest, forage or nest.

Every year, thousands of the Laysan albatross chicks die from droopwing, and even if they manage to fledge and fly off, the levels of lead in their bodies likely cause an early death later on.

While the eggs are incubating, adult albatrosses have the time and freedom to travel thousands of miles in search of food, travelling wherever the most favourable winds take them.

A minimum of 2,000 adult / subadult and tens of thousands of Laysan Albatross chicks were lost.

We were saddened by the news that thousands of nesting albatross had been swept away by the tsunami.