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albatross
01/2020
...The wandering albatross Diomedea exulans. The young are cared for by both parents for almost a year, so breeding takes place every two years. Courtship...
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albatross
01/2018
...The wandering albatross Diomedea exulans. The young are cared for by both parents for almost a year, so breeding takes place every two years. Courtship...
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albatross and the fish
by Doughty, Robin W and Carmichael, Virginia
2011, 1, ISBN 9780292726826
Breeding on remote ocean islands and spending much of its life foraging for food across vast stretches of seemingly empty seas, the albatross remains a legend for most people... Albatrosses, Conservation, Ecology, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Effect of chemicals on, Effect of pollution on, Environmental Science, Fishes, Sea birds, Zoology
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The conservation status and priorities for albatrosses and large petrels
by Phillips, R.A.; Gales, R.; Baker, G.B.; Double, M.C.; Favero, M.; Quintana, F.; Tasker, M.L.; Weimerskirch, H.; Uhart, M. and Wolfaardt, A.
Biological conservation, ISSN 0006-3207, 09/2016, Volume 201, pp. 169 - 183
Seabirds are amongst the most globally-threatened of all groups of birds, and conservation issues specific to albatrosses (Diomedeidae) and large petrels (Procellaria spp... Anthropogenic impacts, Conservation management, Diomedeidae, Environmental Sciences, Felis catus, Invasive species, Macronectes, Mus musculus, Non-target species, Population trends, Procellaria, Rattus, Regional fisheries management organisations
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Aspergillosis in albatrosses
by Melo, Aryse Martins; da Silva Filho, Rodolfo Pinho; Poester, Vanice Rodrigues; Fernandes, Cristina Gevehr; von Groll, Andrea; Stevens, David A.; Sabino, Raquel and Xavier, Melissa Orzechowski
Medical mycology (Oxford), ISSN 1369-3786, 08/2020, Volume 58, Issue 6, pp. 852 - 855
.... All the albatrosses that were received for rehabilitation and died within a 2-year period were included in the study... Aspergillus fumigatus sensu stricto, Aspergillus section Flavi, Molecular identification, Procellariiformes, Seabirds
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Revisiting Lévy flight search patterns of wandering albatrosses, bumblebees and deer
by Edwards, A.M; Phillips, R.A; Watkins, N.W; Freeman, M.P; Murphy, E.J; Afanasyev, V; Buldyrev, S.V; Luz, M.G.E. da; Raposo, E.P and Stanley, H.E
Nature, ISSN 0028-0836, 10/2007, Volume 449, Issue 7165, pp. 1044 - 1048
.... An attempt to demonstrate their existence in a natural biological system presented evidence that wandering albatrosses perform... Albatrosses, Animal behavior, Animal ethology, Animal Migration - physiology, Animal, plant and microbial ecology, Animals, Ateles, Bees - physiology, Behavior, Biological and medical sciences, Birds, Birds - physiology, Bombus, Bumblebees, Deer, Deer - physiology, Ecology, Feeding Behavior - physiology, flight behavior, Flight, Animal - physiology, Food and nutrition, Foraging, Fractals, Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology, General aspects, General aspects. Techniques, Halichoerus grypus, insect behavior, insect flight, Levy flight behavior, Marine, Mathematical models, mathematics and statistics, Methods and techniques (sampling, tagging, trapping, modelling...), Models, Biological, Motor Activity - physiology, Optimization, Probability, Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry, Theory, Time Factors
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Albatrosses orient toward infrasound while foraging
by Thorne, Lesley H.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, ISSN 0027-8424, 10/2023, Volume 120, Issue 42, p. e2314980120
Biological Sciences, Infrasound
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Using super‐high resolution satellite imagery to census threatened albatrosses
by Fretwell, Peter T.; Scofield, Paul and Phillips, Richard A.
Ibis (London, England), ISSN 0019-1019, 07/2017, Volume 159, Issue 3, pp. 481 - 490
...‐studied colony of Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans at South Georgia, and then apply it to the closely related Northern Royal Albatross Diomedea sanfordi, which is near... Accessibility, Accuracy, aerial survey, albatross, Birds, Breeding, Census, Censuses, Colonies, Conservation, Cost engineering, Counting, Disturbance, Endangered & extinct species, Endemic species, High resolution, Image resolution, Imagery, Islands, Methods, Nests, population monitoring, Population status, remote sensing, Resolution, Satellite imagery, Satellites, Seabirds, Spaceborne remote sensing, Test procedures, Very High Resolution, Wildlife, Wildlife conservation, Worldview-3
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Contrasting drivers of reproductive ageing in albatrosses
by Froy, Hannah; Phillips, Richard A.; Lewis, Sue; Nussey, Daniel H. and Wood, Andrew G.
The Journal of animal ecology, ISSN 0021-8790, 09/2017, Volume 86, Issue 5, pp. 1022 - 1032
.... 3. In this study, we use nearly 40 years of longitudinal monitoring data to contrast the within- and among-individual processes contributing to the reproductive ageing patterns in three albatross species... Aging, Animal reproduction, Animals, Bird Island South Georgia, Birds, black-browed albatross Thalassarche melanophris, Breeding, Breeding success, Evolutionary Ecology, grey-headed albatross Thalassarche chrysostoma, life-history trade-off, Reproduction, selective disappearance, Senescence, Standard Paper, terminal effect, wandering albatross Diomedea exulans
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Boldness predicts divorce rates in wandering albatrosses (Diomedea exulans)
by Sun, Ruijiao; Van De Walle, Joanie; Patrick, Samantha C.; Barbraud, Christophe; Weimerskirch, Henri; Delord, Karine and Jenouvrier, Stéphanie
Biology letters (2005), ISSN 1744-9561, 09/2022, Volume 18, Issue 9, p. 20220301
.... In a male-skewed population of wandering albatross ( Diomedea exulans ), we showed that personality predicts divorce... Animal Behaviour, behavioural syndromes, boldness, Environmental Sciences, mate competition, monogamy, sex bias, social networks
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Upwind dynamic soaring of albatrosses and UAVs
by Richardson, Philip L.
Progress in oceanography, ISSN 0079-6611, 01/2015, Volume 130, pp. 146 - 156
[Display omitted] •Dynamic soaring of albatrosses and UAVs was simulated with a two-layer dynamic model... Airspeed, Autonomous underwater vehicles, Dynamics, Marine, Oceans, Robotics, Soaring, Unmanned aerial vehicles, Wind speed
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Spatial assessment of albatrosses, commercial fisheries, and bycatch incidents on Canada's Pacific coast
by Fox, C. H.; Robertson, C.; O'Hara, P. D.; Tadey, R. and Morgan, K. H.
Marine ecology. Progress series (Halstenbek), ISSN 0171-8630, 08/2021, Volume 672, pp. 205 - 222
Fisheries bycatch mortality poses a primary threat to the majority of the world’s 22 albatross species, 15 of which are at risk of extinction... Albatross, Avoidance, Avoidance behaviour, Breeding seasons, Bycatch, Commercial fishing, Conservation, Continental shelves, Fisheries, Hot spots, Longline fishing, Mitigation, Mortality, Phoebastria nigripes, Seabird, Seabirds, Shelf edge, Spatial interaction, Species extinction, Surveying, Trap fishing
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First evidence of mouse predation killing adult great albatrosses
by Connan, Maëlle; Jones, Christopher W.; Risi, Michelle M.; Smyth, Lucy K.; Oppel, Steffen; Perold, Vonica; Stevens, Kim L.; Daling, Roelf and Ryan, Peter G.
Biological invasions, ISSN 1387-3547, 2024, Volume 26, Issue 1, pp. 25 - 31
... been fatal. We report the first deaths of adult great albatrosses due to mouse attacks. On Gough Island, three Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena... Biomedical and Life Sciences, Conservation threat, Developmental Biology, Ecology, Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Gough Island, House Mouse, Invasion Note, Life Sciences, Marion Island, Plant Sciences, Tristan Albatross, Wandering Albatross
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Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins, 2021, ISBN 0198868758
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Predation by feral cats threatens great albatrosses
by Barbraud, Christophe; des Monstiers, Baudouin; Chaigne, Adrien; Marteau, Cédric; Weimerskirch, Henri and Delord, Karine
Biological invasions, ISSN 1387-3547, 08/2021, Volume 23, Issue 8, pp. 2389 - 2405
Feral cats ( Felis catus ) are a potential threat for several seabird species including medium sized albatrosses, but studies documenting predation behavior, demographic impacts and effects of predator control are scarce... Animal control, Aquatic birds, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Breeding success, Cats, Developmental Biology, Diomedea exulans, Ecology, Environmental Sciences, Eradication, Felis catus, Feral populations, Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Growth rate, Juveniles, Life Sciences, Nests, Original Paper, Plant Sciences, Population control, Population decline, Population growth, Population growth rate, Population viability, Predation, Predation behavior, Predator control, Predators, Species extinction, Success
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Habitat preference, accessibility, and competition limit the global distribution of breeding Black-browed Albatrosses
by Wakefield, Ewan D.; Phillips, Richard A.; Trathan, Philip N.; Arata, Javier; Gales, Rosemary; Huin, Nic; Robertson, Graham; Waugh, Susan M.; Weimerskirch, Henri and Matthiopoulos, Jason
Ecological monographs, ISSN 0012-9615, 02/2011, Volume 81, Issue 1, pp. 141 - 167
.... Black-browed Albatrosses Thalassarche melanophrys are highly mobile marine predators with a circumpolar breeding and foraging distribution in the Southern Hemisphere... Animal and plant ecology, Animal behavior, Animal populations, Animal, plant and microbial ecology, Aquatic habitats, Biological and medical sciences, Birds, Black-browed Albatross, Breeding, Campbell Albatross, Central-place foraging, Ecological modeling, Fisheries, Foraging, Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology, GAMM, General aspects, General aspects. Techniques, Habitat conservation, Habitat preferences, Habitats, Marine, Marine ecology, Niche specialization, Predation, Satellite tracking, Sea birds, Sea water, Spatial modeling, Spatial models, Spatial segregation, Teledetection and vegetation maps, Temperature, Thalassarche, Thalassarche impavida, Thalassarche melanophrys
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albatross
08/2014, 5th edition
... Sense 2, after the albatross in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which the mariner killed and had to wear around his neck as a penance...
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Exposure of breeding albatrosses to the agent of avian cholera
by Gamble, Amandine; Garnier, Romain; Jaeger, Audrey; Gantelet, Hubert; Thibault, Eric; Tortosa, Pablo; Bourret, Vincent; Thiebot, Jean-Baptiste; Delord, Karine; Weimerskirch, Henri; Tornos, Jérémy; Barbraud, Christophe and Boulinier, Thierry
Oecologia, ISSN 0029-8549, 04/2019, Volume 189, Issue 4, pp. 939 - 949
.... It frequently causes massive mortality events in wild populations, notably affecting nestlings of Indian yellow-nosed albatrosses... Adults, Albatrosses, Antibodies, Bacterial diseases, Bacterial infections, Bacteriology, Biodiversity, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Breeding, Capture–mark–recapture, Cholera, Communicable diseases, Defence mechanisms, Disease, Disease control, Disease ecology, Diseases, Dynamics, Ecology, Ecology, environment, Ecosystems, Environmental Sciences, Exposure, Females, Health, Health aspects, Hydrology/Water Resources, Immune response, Immune system, Immunity, Immuno-ecology, Immunotherapy, Infections, Infectious diseases, Life Sciences, Maternal antibodies, Microbiology and Parasitology, Oceans, Offspring, Pathogens, Plant Sciences, POPULATION ECOLOGY - ORIGINAL RESEARCH, Populations, Populations and Evolution, Public health, Seabird, Seabirds, Serological dynamics, Survival, Vaccination, Vaccines, Waterborne diseases, Wildlife conservation
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How quickly do albatrosses and petrels digest plastic particles?
by Ryan, Peter G.
Environmental pollution (1987), ISSN 0269-7491, 12/2015, Volume 207, pp. 438 - 440
.... The few direct measures of wear rates and retention times of persistent stomach contents suggest longer plastic residence times in most albatrosses and petrels... Animals, Birds - physiology, Digestion - physiology, Environmental Monitoring - methods, Environmental Pollutants - analysis, Gastrointestinal Contents - chemistry, Inter-generational transfer, Plastic ingestion, Plastics - analysis, Regurgitation, Retention time, Seabirds, Time Factors, Waste Products - analysis, Wear rate
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Albatrosses
W.L.N. Tickell.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2000.
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Thirteen albatrosses = or, falling off the mountain : a novel
Donald Harington.
New York : Henry Holt, 2002.
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Wandering albatross; adventures among the albatrosses and petrels in the Southern Ocean.
Illustrated by the author.
London, MacGibbon & Kee, 1951.
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Albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters of the world
Derek Onley and Paul Scofield.
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2007.
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Kenan Science Library - Remote Storage QL696.P6 O65 2007
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Albatrosses and petrels across the world
Michael Brooke.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North America : a Photographic Guide
Steve N.G. Howell.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2012]
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Petrels, albatrosses, and storm-petrels of North America : a photographic guide
Steve N.G. Howell ; in collaboration with J. Brian Patteson, Kate Sutherland, and Debra L. Shearwater.
Princeton [N.J.] : Princeton University Press, c2012.
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Petrels, albatrosses, and storm-petrels of North America : a photographic guide
Steve N.G. Howell ; in collaboration with J. Brian Patteson and Debra L. Shearwater.
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2012.
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Status assessment of Laysan and black-footed albatrosses, North Pacific Ocean, 1923-2005
by Javier A. Arata, Paul R. Sievert, and Maura B. Naughton.
Reston, Va. : U.S. Geological Survey, 2009.
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Status assessment of Laysan and black-footed albatrosses, North Pacific Ocean, 1923-2005
by Javier A. Arata, Paul R. Sievert, and Maura B. Naughton.
Reston, Va. : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 2009.
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Agreement on conservation of albatrosses and petrels : message from the President of the United States transmitting Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, with annexes, done at Canberra, June 19, 2001.
United States. President (2001-2009 : Bush); United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 2008.
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Agreement on conservation of albatrosses and petrels : message from the President of the United States transmitting Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, with annexes, done at Canberra, June 19, 2001.
United States. President (2001-2009 : Bush); United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 2008.
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Agreement on conservation of albatrosses and petrels : message from the President of the United States transmitting Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, with annexes, done at Canberra, June 19, 2001.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations; United States. President (2001-2009 : Bush)
Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 2008.
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Agreement on conservation of albatrosses and petrels : message from the President of the United States transmitting Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, with annexes, done at Canberra, June 19, 2001.
United States. President (2001-2009 : Bush), author; United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations, issuing body
Washington : U.S. Government Printing Office, 2008.
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Report of the FAO/Birdlife South American Workshop on Implementation of NPOA-Seabirds and Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels : Valdivia, Chile, 2-6 December 2003
edited by S. Lokkeborg and W. Thiele.
Rome : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004.
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Albatross.
[Gainesville, Fla. : Anabiosis Press, c1986-
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Albatross.
[Gainesville, Fla.] : [Anabiosis Press], [©1986]-
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Albatross
Graham Barwell.
London, [England] : Reaktion Books, 2014.
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Albatross : for soprano and piano
John Spence.
Wollongong, New South Wales : Wirripang, 2011.
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Albatross.
Franchild, Stacey M.; Mid-East Jersey Radical Feminists (East Orange, N.J.); Albatross Collective
East Orange, N.J. : Albatross Collective
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