Sentence examples for albatross from inspiring English sources

The New Zealand Forest and Bird Society points out that "sustainable" trawling for hoki drowns a thousand fur seals a year and kills nearly as many albatross and petrels.

"We don't have that albatross".

Sometimes he took eggs from albatross nests.The Senkakus, Mr Tamori insists, were part of his known Okinawan world, not beyond it.

And they caught the short-tailed albatross, which bred there, selling the prized feathers for down.

Half a century later, the Japanese quietly took this name and fashioned out of it a Japanese one for their virgin isles: Senkaku, or "Pinnacled Pavilions".The islands were filled with the deafening cries of breeding boobies, terns and the "Gigantic petrel", by which Belcher presumably meant the short-tailed albatross.

But around 100,000 a year are slaughtered by longline fishing, and 19 of the 21 species of albatross are now threatened with extinction.

He set up a bonito-processing station whose 200 employees also killed the once-abundant short-tailed albatross for its feathers.

An engineering slip-up could turn a nice little earner into an albatross overnight.