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	Great albatross - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The great albatrosses are seabirds in the genus Diomedea in the albatross family.
		The Wandering Albatross and the Southern Royal Albatross are the largest of the albatrosses and are amongst the largest of flying birds.
		Royal albatrosses of all ages and the larger, older male Wandering Albatrosses are totally white-bodied, while adult females and and younger animals of the other species have dark pencilling marks on the edges of their feathers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diomedea (351 words)

	Albatross - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Numbers of albatrosses have declined in the past due to harvesting for feathers, but today the albatrosses are threatened by introduced species such as rats and feral cats that attack eggs, chicks and nesting adults; by pollution; by a serious decline in fish stocks in many regions largely due to overfishing; and by long-line fishing.
		The four genera are the great albatrosses (Diomedea), the mollymawks (Thalassarche), the North Pacific albatrosses (Phoebastria), and the sooty albatrosses or sooties (Phoebetria).
		It is from the former poem that the usage of albatross as a metaphor is derived; someone with a burden or obstacle is said to have 'an albatross around their neck', the punishment given in the poem to the mariner who killed the albatross.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albatross (5656 words)

	Albatross - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Numbers of albatrosses have declined in the past due to harvesting for feathers, but today the albatrosses are threatened by introduced species such as rats and feral cats that attack eggs, chicks and nesting adults; by pollution; and by long-line fishing.
		All albatrosses range in the southern hemisphere except for the four North Pacific albatrosses, of which three occur exclusively in the North Pacific, from Hawaii to Japan, California and Alaska; and one, the Waved Albatross, breeds on the equator in the Galapagos Islands and feeds off the coast of South America.
		Albatrosses combine these soaring techniques with the use of predictable weather systems; albatrosses in the southern hemisphere flying north from their colonies will take a clockwise route and those flying south will fly anticlockwise.
	albatross.quickseek.com (4583 words)

	Oceans - Stop Pirate Fishing
		These great ocean wanderers are the largest flying sea birds in the world, with a wingspan of up to 3.5 metres, and live for up to 85 years mating for life.
		Of the 24 species of albatross, 21 are known to be killed on longlines and at least two species are critically endangered.
		Albatrosses feed primarily on squid and fish - the main bait used to catch toothfish - and are attracted to fishing vessels as an easy source of food.
	archive.greenpeace.org /oceans/piratefishing/albatross.html (653 words)

	The Albatrosses
		Albatrosses can be distinguished from the other petrels because their tubular nostrils are placed at either side of the top mandible of their bill rather than being fused together on top.
		Fossil albatross have been found in England and USA and Japan, indicating that they once had a northern distribution which is believed to have ended 20 MYA when the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans ceased to meet in the Panama.
		Albatrosses are famous for their expressive courtship which involves dancing and in some species such as the Sooty Albatross, daring chases in flight with the following bird repeating every move of the leader.
	www.earthlife.net /birds/albatross.html (1341 words)

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		Wandering (or snowy) albatrosses (Diomedea exulans chionoptera) and grey-headed albatrosses (Diomedea chrysostoma) are listed as vulnerable to extinction by the end of the 21st Century, whilst the less endangered fl-browed albatrosses (Diomedea malanophris) still appears as globally near-threatened.
		Black-browed and grey-headed albatrosses at South Georgia tend to nest on abruptly sloping islands and headlands amongst tussock grass (Poa flabellata).
		The wing pattern and and form of the grey-headed albatross is very similar to the Black-browed Albatross; however the adults have a light blue-grey head with a jet-fl bill, with a light yellow upper and lower edge.
	www.sgisland.org /pages/environ/b_albatross.htm (1449 words)

	Surfbirds Birding Trip Report: Prince Edward Island, the Antarctic Pack Ice and South African Cape, November 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He is understandably a great authority on the natural history of the region and as we are to find out during many a long, cold evening a very accomplished lecturer on many an interesting topic.
		Albatrosses and other seabirds scavenging behind these boats try to grab the bait from the hooks as they sink and many birds are hooked, dragged underwater, and drown.
		Great albatrosses are constantly in view and prions skim the water's surface all around.
	www.surfbirds.com /trip_report.php?id=98 (10248 words)

	The Wandering Albatross
		Results show that the Wandering albatrosses fly an average of 300 km per day with occasional flights of over 1000 km in a day, flying over the seas in a series of arcs to cover distances of 30,000 km or more.
		The great albatrosses: the Wandering albatross and the Royal albatross, are the most oceanic of seabirds; both are huge birds with long narrow wings spanning more than three metres.
		Albatrosses are long-lived, spending most of their life at sea.
	www.wmo.ch /web/sat/en/ap7-01.htm (951 words)

	Welcome to SOSSA...
		Initially, they used a baited float with a steel V-notch to catch albatrosses, but as this was slow work and the birds were found to be easily approached, some sort of net seemed more appropriate.
		While several studies have suggested that great albatrosses prefer to frequent pelagic (beyond the continental shelf break) waters, at Wollongong they make an exception and some individuals have approached to within 1 metre of the shore.
		With the availability of several species of albatrosses and the close proximity of research facilities, a rare combination, the opportunity to undertake comparative physiological studies has been seized.
	www.sossa-international.org /Pages/Projects/DiomedeaProject.htm (732 words)

	Save the Albatross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Quotes in support of the campaign from celebrity supporters, the Save the Albatross team and race participants can all be used with campaign stories.
		By the end of January, thousands of albatrosses will have died needlessly, victims of a longline fishing industry that doesn’t mean to kill them.
		Albatrosses are supreme gliders with wings to maximise the updrafts and thermals over the open ocean.
	www.savethealbatross.net /release_archive.asp (2372 words)

	ScienceDaily: Backyard Bird Count Includes Harry Potter's Snowy Owls
		First Great American Bluebird Count Asks Bird-Lovers: "Put Your Birdhouse On The Map" (April 28, 1999) -- Researchers at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and the North American Bluebird Society (NABS) are asking bird-lovers to log on to http://birds.cornell.edu and put their birdhouses on the map...
		Great albatross -- The great albatrosses are seabirds in the genus Diomedea in the albatross family.
		Great albatrosses are the largest of the albatrosses and are amongst the largest of flying...
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2002/01/020130074309.htm (2133 words)

	PCBs, DDE, DDT, and TCDD-EQ in Two Species of Albatross on Sand Island, Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean - ...
		The Laysan albatross diet consists primarily of ommastrephid squid (68% of the diet); the remainder of the diet consists of approximately 9% fish, 9% crustaceans, and 4% coelenterates [7].
		Mean concentrations of 1, 1 -dichloro-2,2'-bis-p-chlorophenylethylene in the plasma of Laysan and fl-footed albatross adults compared to adult Caspian terns and bald eagle chicks in the interior and Great Lakes-influenced areas of the Great Lakes region.
		The HQ for fl-footed albatrosses was approximately 10, which, based on observations in populations of fish-eating birds of the North American Great Lakes, would be expected to be causing subtle population-level effects, such as embryo lethality [1,2] and deformities [14,27,28].
	www.mindfully.org /Heritage/Albatross-PCBs-DDE-DDT-Mar97.htm (4324 words)

	ALBATROSS, ROYAL - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
		Albatrosses are the largest members of the rather diverse order of sea birds known as petrels.
		Of the 13 species of albatross, nine occur in New Zealand seas–seven mollymawks and the two great albatrosses, the wanderer and the royal.
		Breeding is a protracted affair with petrels, especially so with the great albatrosses which take some 10 months to complete the process and so are able to reach breeding condition only in alternate years.
	www.teara.govt.nz /1966/A/AlbatrossRoyal/AlbatrossRoyal/en (444 words)

	New England Seabirds - References Albatrosses by W.L.N. Tickell Yale University Press 2000
		The taxonomy of the Albatrosses is currently under revision.
		Anyone fortunate enough to have spent time observing mating Albatrosses will be interested in the diagrams of the courting postures and descriptions of courting, mating, and feeding behaviors.
		It is impossible to understand the Albatrosses without knowing something about the islands where they breed and this book covers the major breeding sites.
	www.neseabirds.com /RefAlbatrosses.htm (145 words)

	Birdwatching trip report - Antarctic Pack Ice and South African Cape - surfbirds.com
		Radio and satellite tracking of albatrosses, during their oceanic wanderings in the course of their non-breeding 'year off', have revealed that different sexes disperse to different areas of the southern oceans.
		Albatrosses are still prevalent with Black-browed, Sooty, Atlantic Yellow-nosed and a putative adult male 'Tristan' all putting in an appearance.
		Great Shearwaters are back with us, as we cover ground visited in the first few days of the trip.
	www.surfbirds.com /mb/trips/antarctic-im-0503.html (14614 words)

	Wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Albatrosses are among the most long–lived of birds and commonly reach the age of 30–40 years, with a record going to a Royal from the colony at Taiaroa Head near Dunedin, a bird named Grandma who was still producing young past her sixtieth birthday.
		Albatrosses are famous for their expressive courtship and affection for their mates.
		The sailing ships used to encounter albatrosses while plying the westerly winds between latitudes 40 and 60 degrees, thus the Roaring Forties and the Furious Fifties came to be known as the albatross latitudes.
	www.nzbirds.com /birds/albatrosswandering.html (1946 words)

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		One of the great albatrosses around the neck of the recording industry has been the forced recording of ill-conceived “novelty” recordings.
		In great demand were recordings by well known artists....artists like Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and of course, Stan Getz.
		While a great backing band was organized for the recording date, no rehearsals were held before the day of the actual recording.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/review_print.php?id=2288 (437 words)

	Annotated List of the Seabirds of the World - Gibson's Albatross
		I believe this albatross is named after the Australian J. Doug Gibson, a pioneer of albatross studies.
		This method for characterizing the seemingly infinite variation in appearance of Great Albatrosses has proved instrumental in the recognition that there are multiple populations and has laid the ground work for field identification.
		For example, Tickell (2000) cites a mean culmen length for Gibson's Albatross are 151-mm (males) and 146-mm (females) whereas Wandering Albatross from Macquarie Island average 166-mm (males) and 158-mm (females).
	www.oceanwanderers.com /Gibs.Alb.html (634 words)

	Annotated List of the Seabirds of the World - Wandering Albatross
		Except for a distinctive white face mask young wandering albatrosses are a rich brown colour and can be very similar to the 'dark' forms of the Great Albatross, such as Amsterdam and Antipodes Albatrosses.
		Mature adults have the whitest upperwing of all great albatrosses, exceeding Southern Royal Albatross.
		Tomkins, R.J. (1985) Reproduction and mortality of Wandering Albatrosses on Macquarie Island.
	www.oceanwanderers.com /Wand.Alb.html (486 words)

	Lindblad Expeditions: Antarctica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Five species of albatross were seen today — fl-browed, grey-headed and sooty albatrosses — and two species of great albatrosses, the masters of the Southern Ocean.
		We were accompanied by up to twenty wandering albatrosses (pictured) and a smaller number of royal albatrosses.
		Like us, the royal albatrosses are a long way from home.
	www.expeditions.com /dersearch/derprint.asp?id=6309 (285 words)

	Jack London: The Mutiny of the Elsinore (Chapter 48)
		The mollyhawks and albatrosses, after their fashion, have followed the Elsinore up out of their own latitudes.
		They eat'm mollyhawk and albatross; mollyhawk and albatross eat'm fat pork; two men he die, plenty men much sick, you bet, damn to hell me very much glad.
		We use a great deal of coal in our cooking, and when the present supply gives out we shall have to cut through a bulkhead to get at the cargo.
	www.jacklondons.net /writings/Elsinore/chapter48.html (988 words)

	ScienceDaily: Tagging The Great White Shark ... And A Few Of His Friends
		Already, TOPP researchers have successfully tagged and tracked great white sharks as they crossed the Pacific Ocean, and they have, for the first time ever, successfully used satellite tagging technology to track the movements of the mysterious Humboldt squid in the Sea of Cortez.
		Effort To Control Trade In Great White Sharks Gets Teeth From International Community (October 18, 2004) -- Vilified in popular culture as a relentless man-eater, the great white shark finally received today global recognition as a persecuted species worthy of protection, as participants of the 13th...
		Taming Jaws: Scientists Lift Great White Sharks From Ocean To Fit With Satellite Tags (November 28, 2003) -- A group of scientists from the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), working with the Marine and Coastal Management Branch of South Africa, have perfected an unusual, hands-on method to...
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2002/09/020904073348.htm (1752 words)

	WINGS Birding Tours to Northern Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Flying to southern Queensland we'll visit the world-famous O'Reilly's Guest House, where bowerbirds and catbirds come to the feeders, and the lawns are covered in an array of megapodes, pigeons and parrots.
		On the other day our destination will be the Great Barrier Reef where we'll inspect the corals and fishes from glass-bottomed boats.
		Cetaceans may also be a feature of the trip and though none are guaranteed in previous years we have seen Humpback and Sperm Whales, and Common and Bottlenose Dolphins.
	www.wingsbirds.com /tours/australian.htm (1392 words)

	Kauai 1997 Hawaii 1998
		Eventually, I had great looks at these little birds, which have thick, swollen, finch-like bills, and which David pointed out are probably relatively close to the honeycreepers' common ancestor.
		As I drove by "Josie", who was sitting tight on "her" nest in the rain (pretty tough to sex these albatrosses), I noticed a flock of birds on the side of the road.
		We were allowed access to the LAYSAN ALBATROSS nesting colony, and it was an amazing experience to walk through the densely populated area with 79 albatross nests.
	www.camacdonald.com /birding/tripreports/Hawaii9798.html (8977 words)

	InfoHub - Wildlife of Crozet Islands
		It was usual to have 20-30 albatrosses of 3-4 species, 30-50 Giant Petrels (with Northern predominating) and 50-150 White-chinned Petrels together with smaller numbers of other species.
		The smartest great albatross with wings clean fl and head and tail white.
		At one point a group of young Wandering Albatrosses were displaying to each other and a Shy Albatross was being ignored so it started pulling at the wing feathers of the Wanderers, seemingly to get attention.
	www.infohub.com /forums/showthread.php?p=12836 (6439 words)

	Antarctica - Antarctic Expedition - 19-Day Tour by JOURNEYS International
		The great explorers Captain James Cook and Ernest Shackleton both contributed to the fame and history of this island.
		At sea, in the westerlies the ship is followed by several species of albatrosses, storm petrels, shearwaters and diving petrels.
		Fortuna Bay and Bay of Isles with breeding Wandering Albatrosses on Albatross Island, and Salisbury Plain with a large colony of King Penguins are other highlights of the South Georgia program.
	www.journeys-intl.com /destinations/polar/antarctica/531 (910 words)

	Nominating Speech by Mario M. Cuomo
		Tonight, I will have the great privilege and honor of placing before you the name of the next president of the United States of America, Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas.
		Remember, we became a great nation by making things and selling them to others for their marks and their yen.
		Now, the accents were different, even the colors may have been a tint different, but the feelings were the same feelings that many of us experienced on the asphalt streets of some of the nation's great cities; the same pain; the same anguish; the same hopes.
	www.shabbir.com /nonmatchbox/cuomo.html (2433 words)

	Antarctica, South Georgia & The Falklands - birding tours, birding cruises - Victor Emanuel Nature Tours
		The combination of a wonderful ship with an excellent crew, a great group of 57 enthusiastic VENT participants, and near perfect weather made for a most successful visit to the Southern Ocean.
		The view from the top of the hill was splendid, and all of our fearless leaders took the "express route" down the snowy slope, which was great fun.
		The weather was consistently mild, the sites we visited were teeming with a diversity of wildlife, we had a great VENT group, and it was a pleasure to co-lead with Victor Emanuel and Barry Lyon.
	www.ventbird.com /news/reports/299 (1643 words)

	The New Zealand Birding List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Great conditions and after about an hour we were treated to the sight of 30 orca feeding below a wheeling mix of gannets, great albatrosses, mollymawks, petrels, the occasional Buller's shearwater and a brown skua.
		Great sight wheeling over the orca; good numbers at each chumming stop and always new birds coming through > White-capped albatross - one seen 27/05 > NZ fl-browed (Campbell) albatross - common throughout (60% adults, 40% young birds) > Black-browed albatross - one seen 27/05 > Southern Buller's albatross - two possibly three seen.
		Got some great views of birds feeding - their typical repetitive behaviour of flying, landing on the water with a splash often diving straight under, then emerging again to fly...
	birdingonthe.net /mailinglists/NEWZ.html (12447 words)

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