Sentence examples for cause of albatross from inspiring English sources

Adults sometimes pursue baited hooks from long line fisheries, a globally significant cause of albatross deaths.

Over the previous decade or so, the growth of longline fishing, a commercial technique in which numerous baited hooks are trailed from a line that can be kilometres long (see commercial fishing: Drifting longlines; Bottom longlines), has caused many seabirds, including most species of albatross, to decline rapidly in numbers.

The ease of albatross movement between vast geographic areas could provide an opportunity for intercontinental spread of emerging infectious diseases.

By the late 1960s the car had become a kind of albatross for Mr. Chamberlain.

Ms. Mostello has even seen the rarest species of albatross in the world, the short-tailed albatross (Phoebastria albatrus), at Midway.

The fossil record of the albatrosses in the Northern Hemisphere is more complete than that of the southern, and many fossil forms of albatross have been found in the North Atlantic, which today has no albatrosses.

The Adventures Of Albatross And Doggerel 9. I Didn't Mean To Say That 10.

Wang et al. were unable to confirm infection of albatross with the HIGV isolate (1 ); however, the results presented here suggest that ABIV does infect albatross.

Lost and alone, he marvels at a life-affirming vision in the moonlight, and his prayer of reverence causes the albatross to fall into the sea.

The authors tell us that commercial fishing techniques are annually killing tens of thousands of albatrosses.

Related sites Albatross fact sheets BirdLife International's Save the Albatross Campaign Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels Food and Agriculture Organization's Seabird Initiative.