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  • For a fraction of a second Jane was off guard and the shearwater struck right in the palm of her hand.
  • The horrifying screams of petrels and shearwaters coming to their burrows after sunset have given rise to all kinds of superstitions.
  • Clonmel's Minella stayed on dourly through the rain-softened ground to take the Shearwater Handicap ‘Chase.
  • While there are few wild animals in Iceland, there is abundant birdlife - ducks, geese and, among the many sea-birds I spotted, petrels, puffins, tern, gannets, skuas and shearwaters.
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  • It is here we find the boobies, shearwaters, gannets, petrels, and the albatross.
  • There's always the chance of a minke whale, too, while terns, fulmars, guillemots, puffins and shearwaters come as standard.
  • The Shearwater has three sets of cringles numbered 1, 2, and 3 from the bottom up.
  • In addition to the wandering, we also were entranced by royal and shy albatrosses, as well as Cape and giant petrels, fairy prions and fluttering shearwaters.
  • It is anticipated that the results will be some surprise, particularly where petrels and shearwater numbers are concerned.
  • Albatross, cape pigeons, diving petrels, monymawks, mottled petrels, and sooty shearwaters all took their turns skimming our bow wave for fish.
  • In the Antarctic wildlife, there are as many as five species of albatross, including the huge wandering and royal albatrosses, as well as several species of prions, stormpetrels, petrels, diving petrels, and shearwaters.
  • A Manx shearwater colony has a particularly powerful stench.
  • One of the most unusual yet innovative section award winners came from the Shearwater Team, who developed a canoe paddle based on the bio-mechanical properties of a bird's foot.
  • It is generally accepted that the Family Procellariidae can be split into four broad groupings; the fulmars (Fulmarus), the gadfly-petrels (Pterodroma), the prions (Pachyptila) and the shearwaters (Puffinus).
  • Fulmarus glacialis, a cliff-dwelling, gull-like bird of northern seas and coasts; it belongs to a group of seabirds commonly known as petrels and shearwaters.
  • But by now biologists have observed them attacking adult saddlebacks (a native songbird whose numbers are dwindling) and devouring eggs of the little shearwater (a native petrel).
  • Among the species most likely to vanish from the earth in the next few years are the Hawaiian crow, the Balearic shearwater (a Mediterranean seabird) and the begonia oxyanthera, a plant which is native to Cameroon.
  • It houses Manx shearwaters, herring and black-backed gulls, razorbills, stormy petrels and guillemots besides puffins.
  • If you are visiting Ocean City, take a birdwatching trip on a charter boat to see shearwaters, skuas, Wilson's storm-petrels, and Atlantic puffins.
  • Unlike seabirds like terns or shearwaters, which can rest and feed along the way, the curlews will drown if they land on the ocean.
  • Simple depth gauges measuring the maximum depths indicate some remarkably deep dives attained by shearwaters.
  • Unlike seabirds like terns or shearwaters, which can rest and feed along the way, the curlews will drown if they land on the ocean.
  • If you are visiting Ocean City, take a birdwatching trip on a charter boat to see shearwaters, skuas, Wilson's storm-petrels, and Atlantic puffins.
  • In Hawaii, cats and dogs as well as the imported mongoose have seriously affected nesting waterbirds and two seabirds - the dark-rumped petrel and Newell's shearwater, according to the National Biological Service.
  • Well, their closest relative has often been suggested as the petrels, albatross and shearwaters, but we don't know just how close these two groups are.
  • It is here we find the boobies, shearwaters, gannets, petrels, and the albatross.
  • It is here we find the boobies, shearwaters, gannets, petrels, and the albatross.
  • The Manx shearwater has a phenomenal homing ability.
  • For me, it will always be a trip of a lifetime, as we were soon surrounded by a bewildering assortment of albatrosses, shearwaters and petrels, each a new species for us.
  • In Hawaii, cats and dogs as well as the imported mongoose have seriously affected nesting waterbirds and two seabirds - the dark-rumped petrel and Newell's shearwater, according to the National Biological Service.
  • While there are few wild animals in Iceland, there is abundant bird life - ducks, geese and, among the many sea-birds I spotted, petrels, puffins, tern, gannets, skuas and shearwaters.
  • Sandy Neck, Barnstable, and First Encounter Beach, Eastham, are Cape places to observe shearwaters, jaegers, phalaropes, ducks, gannets and for a few lucky sentinels, an occasional northern fulmar.
  • There's always the chance of a minke whale, too, while terns, fulmars, guillemots, puffins and shearwaters come as standard.
  • Usually you can expect to see great numbers of pelagic birds - gannets, shearwaters, jaegers, storm-petrels, alcids - that live mainly at sea.
  • The sooty shearwater flies low over deep water about 50 miles out to sea.
  • By day, a colony of petrels or shearwaters is a quiet, apparently deserted place.
  • So did populations of sooty shearwaters, a seabird that eats young fish and large plankton, which plummeted 90 percent.
  • Usually you can expect to see great numbers of pelagic birds - gannets, shearwaters, jaegers, storm-petrels, alcids - that live mainly at sea.
  • While there are few wild animals in Iceland, there is abundant birdlife - ducks, geese and, among the many sea-birds I spotted, petrels, puffins, tern, gannets, skuas and shearwaters.
  • In the summer of 1974, my brother John spent the summer with three students from Aberdeen University, studying the breeding biology of falcons and shearwaters on the uninhabited island of Dragonada, off the north-eastern coast of Crete. Family life
  • Usually you can expect to see great numbers of pelagic birds - gannets, shearwaters, jaegers, storm-petrels, alcids - that live mainly at sea.
  • For me, it will always be a trip of a lifetime, as we were soon surrounded by a bewildering assortment of albatrosses, shearwaters and petrels, each a new species for us.
  • The air and sea were alive with graceful gannets, bumble-bee-like puffins and delicate shearwaters.
  • Albatross, cape pigeons, diving petrels, monymawks, mottled petrels, and sooty shearwaters all took their turns skimming our bow wave for fish.
  • In order to fly, the Manx shearwater must be on a steep incline so as to gain momentum and height in the air.
  • For a fraction of a second Jane was off guard and the shearwater struck right in the palm of her hand.
  • Typical of young shearwaters, it was just a ball of grey down with a beak sticking out.
  • There's always the chance of a minke whale, too, while terns, fulmars, guillemots, puffins and shearwaters come as standard.
  • Albatrosses, petrels, shags and shearwaters glide merrily around, all because of continental shelves and currents that slope and converge and form a giant feeding ground for these stars of the sea.
  • Next stop was at Collieston for a spot of lunch and some sea watching, following encouraging reports of big movements of petrels and shearwaters.
  • Many of the bird species live on the water all year, only coming onto land to breed, such as the northern fulmar, greater shearwater, dovekie, common murre, and thickbilled murre.
  • A related species, the whiskered auklet, has a similar tangerine-like plumage odor, and other sea birds such as shearwaters and storm petrels have distinct musky odors.
  • For me, it will always be a trip of a lifetime, as we were soon surrounded by a bewildering assortment of albatrosses, shearwaters and petrels, each a new species for us.
  • Galapagos Penguins have been observed foraging with boobies, terns, and shearwaters.
  • I was asked about the identification of Bulwer's Petrel vs. dark morph Wedge-tailed Shearwater whilst in Keelung, and can understand why.
  • The Newell's shearwater and Hawaiian petrel, known for its daring aerial maneuvers and black collar, live mostly out at sea.
  • Usually you can expect to see great numbers of pelagic birds - gannets, shearwaters, jaegers, storm-petrels, alcids - that live mainly at sea.
  • While there are few wild animals in Iceland, there is abundant birdlife - ducks, geese and, among the many sea-birds I spotted, petrels, puffins, tern, gannets, skuas and shearwaters.
  • So did populations of sooty shearwaters, a seabird that eats young fish and large plankton, which plummeted 90 percent.
  • Watchers at Monomoy this past week discovered hundreds of Wilson's petrels, a few sooty shearwaters, eiders and parasitic jaegers.
  • Usually you can expect to see great numbers of pelagic birds - gannets, shearwaters, jaegers, storm-petrels, alcids - that live mainly at sea.
  • The news today reports about a Manx Shearwater, a pelagic bird, that is believed to be the oldest wild bird in the United Kingdom.
  • It belongs to a group of seabirds commonly known as petrels and shearwaters.
  • There were 29 Hudsonian godwits, several whimbrels, 2 dunlins, greater shearwaters and black tern.

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