Sentence examples for like seabirds from inspiring English sources

But what's so exhilarating is the flock of many-coloured hopes gathering behind this project, like seabirds in the wake of a working trawler.

The stewardship council seeks to ensure the catch is set at levels that keep fish stocks healthy and that there is no significant harm done to other species like seabirds and marine mammals.

A dozen or so craft darted up and down, diving low like seabirds after a fish, and no bigger than seabirds, skimming the dirty foam, then returning to the heavens, directed by unseen hands.

We had landed in Paradise Island 12 hours earlier in a steady rain and reached our hotel along streets flooded by some earlier deluge, the fellow passengers on our bus watching in funereal silence as the shoppers in downtown Nassau perched like seabirds on high chunks of pavement.

For example, extraction patterns that look for noun phrases separated by "such as" or "and other" will match word sequences like "seabirds such as penguins and albatrosses" or "beans, nuts, and other legumes", leading to hypotheses that seabird is a hypernym of penguin and albatross, and that beans and nuts are hyponyms of legumes.

This is true for animals relying on marine food resource, like seabirds [1], [21] or marine fish [13], but is also the case for animals that move on a large scale but exploit relatively fine-grained habitat variation, such as tropical forest-dwelling frugivores.

A fossil site at a borrow pit in near Cheswold, Delaware created during highway construction unearthed 11 specimens of fragmentary and unassociated avian fossils, which were identified by Rasmussen as including a small loon, a small gull-like species and five specimens of a gannet-like seabird, probably Morus loxostylus, a common species in the Miocene.

They are first known to occur in the Cretaceous Period, the earliest being the Hesperornithiformes, like Hesperornis regalis, a flightless loon-like seabird that could dive in a fashion similar to grebes and loons (using its feet to move underwater) but had a beak filled with sharp teeth.

Like other seabirds, penguins have salt glands that enable them to ingest salt from seawater.

To call attention to the issue, Mr. Acevedo is currently painting the mangrove sanctuary and residents like the seabirds and coral reef fish.

Discarded nets can cause a particular problem as they continue to "ghost fish," trapping fish and other sea animals like turtles, seabirds and dolphins.