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2. Seabirds mysteriously covered in oil are turning up on ...

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   Seabirds are turning up coated in oil along Pacific Northwest coastlines, and wildlife officials are trying to figure out why. An oiled common murre was first discovered May 19, ...

3. Seabird - Wikipedia

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   There exists no single definition of which groups, families and species are seabirds, and most definitions are in some way arbitrary. Elizabeth Shreiber and Joanna Burger, two seabird scientists, said, "The one common characteristic that all seabirds share is that they feed in saltwater; but, as seems to be true with any statement in biology, some do not."

4. Shearwater - Wikipedia

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   Many shearwaters are long-distance migrants, perhaps most spectacularly sooty shearwaters, which cover distances in excess of 14,000 km (8,700 mi) from their breeding colonies on the Falkland Islands (52°S 60°W) to as far as 70° north latitude in the North Atlantic Ocean off northern Norway, and around New Zealand to as far as 60° north latitude in the North Pacific Ocean off Alaska.

5. Procellariidae - Wikipedia

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   The procellariids are the most numerous family of tubenoses, and the most diverse. They range in size from the giant petrels with a wingspan of around 2.0 m (6 ft 7 in), that are almost as large as the albatrosses, to the diving petrels with a wingspan of around 34 cm (13 in) that are similar in size to the little auks or dovekies in the family ...

6. List of animals of Long Island Sound - Wikipedia

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   A Field Guide to Long Island Sound: Coastal Habitats, Plant Life, Fish, Seabirds, Marine Mammals, and Other Wildlife. Connecticut: Yale University Press. pp. All. ISBN 978-0300220353. Weiss, Howard (1995). Marine Animals of Southern New England and New York. Connecticut: Bulletin. pp. All. ISBN 0-942081-06-4. "NOAA Fish Watch". NOAA Fish Watch.

7. Category:Seabirds - Wikipedia

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8. The World's Oldest Known Wild Bird Lays Egg at 74—Meet Wisdom ...

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   The world's oldest known wild bird has laid an egg at the impressive age of 74, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) for the Pacific Region reports.. Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, was filmed ...

9. Procellariiformes - Wikipedia

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   The most important family culturally is the albatrosses, which have been described by one author as "the most legendary of birds". [76] Albatrosses have featured in poetry in the form of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's famous 1798 poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner , which in turn gave rise to the usage of albatross as metaphor for a burden . [ 77 ]