Sentence examples for large seabird from inspiring English sources

The more isolated islands contain large seabird populations, including gannets, fulmars, and puffins.

Photos of the large seabird incubating her egg between her webbed feet at the Midway Atoll national wildlife refuge, the world's largest albatross colony, were posted on Twitter by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

Here we investigate the role of guano on corals reefs across scales by analyzing the stable nitrogen isotopic (δ15N) values of the scleractinian coral Pocillopora damicornis on fringing reefs around two Pacific remote islets with large seabird colonies.

Meanwhile, the Coast Guard confirmed that the oil hit the Chandeleur Islands off Louisiana's southeast tip on Thursday, and the state said two gannets, a type of large seabird, had been found dead, covered in oil.

In fact, only four species are known to have higher rates on Saris's energy index than the professional cyclists in his study: a small Australian possum, a macaroni penguin, a large seabird called a gannet, and one species of marsupial mouse.

The weather was hot and sunny with a stiff southwest wind blowing at about 30 knots on Tuesday, May 9, when a large seabird, an albatross, came flying in off Buzzard's Bay at 11 45 a.m. and buzzed researchers hunkered down in a blind here.

The number of large seabirds attending the vessel during discharge events decreased significantly when waste was held for 4 h.

Frigate bird, also called man-o'-war bird, any member of five species of large seabirds constituting the family Fregatidae (order Pelecaniformes or Suliformes).

Albatross (family Diomedeidae), any of more than a dozen species of large seabirds that collectively make up the family Diomedeidae (order Procellariiformes).

This serves to make soaring less energetically expensive for these large seabirds, particularly over long distances.

Albatrosses are a group of very large seabirds that can soar as far as 16,000 kilometers (10,000 miles) in a single journey (ref).