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  2. Laysan albatross - Wikipedia

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    The Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) is a large seabird that ranges across the North Pacific. The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are home to 99.7% of the population. This small (for its family ) gull-like albatross is the second-most common seabird in the Hawaiian Islands , with an estimated population of 1.18 million birds, and is ...

  3. Albatross - Wikipedia

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    This maneuver allows the bird to cover almost 1,000 km/d (620 mi/d) without flapping its wings. Slope soaring uses the rising air on the windward side of large waves. Albatross have high glide ratios, around 22:1 to 23:1, meaning that for every metre they drop, they can travel forward twenty-two metres. [7]

  4. Great skua - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] The English name and species name "skua" is believed to originate from the Faroese skúvur or skúgvur [ˈskɪkvʊər] and is the only known bird name to originate from the Faroes that has come into regular use elsewhere. [6] [7] In Britain, it is sometimes known by the name bonxie, a Shetland name of Norse origin.

  5. Southern royal albatross - Wikipedia

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    The southern royal albatross has a length of 112 to 123 cm (44–48 in) [13] and a mean weight of 8.5 kg (19 lb). At Campbell Island , 11 males were found to have a mean mass of 10.3 kg (23 lb) and 7 females were found to have a mean mass of 7.7 kg (17 lb), thus may be heavier on average than most colonies of wandering albatross. [ 4 ]

  6. Grey-headed albatross - Wikipedia

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    The grey-headed albatross (Thalassarche chrysostoma) also known as the gray-headed mollymawk, is a large seabird from the albatross family. It has a circumpolar distribution, nesting on isolated islands in the Southern Ocean and feeding at high latitudes, further south than any of the other mollymawks. Its name derives from its ashy-gray head ...

  7. Gannet - Wikipedia

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    Gannets can achieve speeds of 100 km/h (62.13 mph) as they strike the water, enabling them to catch fish at a much greater depth than most airborne birds. [ 5 ] The gannet's supposed capacity for eating large quantities of fish has led to "gannet" becoming a description of somebody with a voracious appetite.

  8. Masked booby - Wikipedia

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    The masked booby (Sula dactylatra), also called the masked gannet or the blue-faced booby, is a large seabird of the booby and gannet family, Sulidae. First described by the French naturalist René-Primevère Lesson in 1831, the masked booby is one of six species of booby in the genus Sula. It has a typical sulid body shape, with a long pointed ...

  9. Glossary of bird terms - Wikipedia

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    Also defined: seabird colony; breeding colony; communal roost; heronries; rookery. A large congregation of individuals of one or more species of bird that nest or roost in proximity at a particular location. Many kinds of birds are known to congregate in groups of varying size; a congregation of nesting birds is called a breeding colony.