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Muttonbirding is the seasonal harvesting of the chicks of petrels, especially shearwater species, for food, oil and feathers by recreational or commercial hunters. Such hunting of petrels and other seabirds has occurred in various locations since prehistoric times, and there is evidence that many island populations have become extinct as a result.
A Laysan albatross feeds its chick. The parent pumps food from a modified foregut, the proventriculus, and the chick catches the meal in its lower mandible. Upon hatching, the chicks are semi-precocial, having open eyes, a dense covering of white or grey down feathers, and the ability to move around the nesting site. After hatching, the ...
Translocation of chicks to establish new breeding colonies is also part of long-term strategy to restore the environment, including offshore islands that were once farmed but are now protected areas. Between 1991 and 1996, 334 fluttering shearwater chicks were moved from Long Island in the Marlborough Sounds to Maud Island. Artificial burrows ...
His first Italian, first Columbus restaurant. Guy Fieri's Trattoria is the latest of 18 concepts and nearly 100 restaurants bearing the celebrity chef's name.
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.
The restaurant offers both sweet and savory options, including 30-count Chick-fil-A Nuggets, 10-count Chick-n-Minis (available during breakfast hours only), 12 Chocolate Fudge Brownie halves, and ...
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Puffinus gravis, great shearwater breeds on islands in the South Atlantic Ocean; ranges in the North Atlantic Ocean to the Arctic Circle; Puffinus pacificus, wedge-tailed shearwater ranges through tropical Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean; Puffinus bulleri, Buller's shearwater breeds on islands off the coast of New Zealand; ranges across the ...