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53 relations: Albatross, American Museum of Natural History, Bird, Bird colony, Bird ringing, Carpal bones, Carrion, Cat, Cephalopod, Chatham Islands, Common green bottle fly, Covert feather, Crown (anatomy), Crustacean, Department of Conservation (New Zealand), Diomedes, Diving petrel, Endangered species, Enderby Island, Family (biology), Fish, Fledge, Forty-Fours, Fulmar, Great albatross, Humboldt Current, Ibis (journal), International Union for Conservation of Nature, Introduced species, Lancelot Eric Richdale, Leonard Cutler Sanford, Longline fishing, Mandible, Nostril, Otago Peninsula, Patagonian Shelf, Procellariiformes, Proventriculus, Red-billed gull, Robert Cushman Murphy, Salp, Seabird, Shearwater, South Island, Southern royal albatross, Stoat, Stomach oil, Storm petrel, Taiaroa Head, The Sisters (New Zealand), ..., Triglyceride, Wax ester, WorldView-3. Expand index (3 more) »
Albatross
Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds related to the procellariids, storm petrels and diving petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses).
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American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH), located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, is one of the largest museums in the world.
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Bird
Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
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Bird colony
A bird colony is a large congregation of individuals of one or more species of bird that nest or roost in proximity at a particular location.
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Bird ringing
Bird ringing or bird banding is the attachment of a small, individually numbered metal or plastic tag to the leg or wing of a wild bird to enable individual identification.
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Carpal bones
The carpal bones are the eight small bones that make up the wrist (or carpus) that connects the hand to the forearm.
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Carrion
Carrion (from Latin caro, meaning "meat") is the decaying flesh of a dead animal.
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Cat
The domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus or Felis catus) is a small, typically furry, carnivorous mammal.
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Cephalopod
A cephalopod is any member of the molluscan class Cephalopoda (Greek plural κεφαλόποδα, kephalópoda; "head-feet") such as a squid, octopus or nautilus.
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Chatham Islands
The Chatham Islands form an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean about east of the South Island of New Zealand.
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Common green bottle fly
The common green bottle fly (Lucilia sericata) is a blow fly found in most areas of the world, and the most well-known of the numerous green bottle fly species.
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Covert feather
A covert feather or tectrix on a bird is one of a set of feathers, called coverts (or tectrices), which, as the name implies, cover other feathers.
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Crown (anatomy)
The crown is the top of the head, or the whole head.
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Crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, woodlice, and barnacles.
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Department of Conservation (New Zealand)
The Department of Conservation (DOC) (Māori: Te Papa Atawhai) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with the conservation of New Zealand's natural and historical heritage.
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Diomedes
Diomedes (Jones, Daniel; Roach, Peter, James Hartman and Jane Setter, eds. Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary. 17th edition. Cambridge UP, 2006. or) or Diomede (God-like cunning, advised by Zeus) is a hero in Greek mythology, known for his participation in the Trojan War.
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Diving petrel
The diving petrels are seabirds in the bird order Procellariiformes.
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Endangered species
An endangered species is a species which has been categorized as very likely to become extinct.
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Enderby Island
Enderby Island is part of the Auckland Islands archipelago, south of and belonging to New Zealand.
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Family (biology)
In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.
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Fish
Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.
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Fledge
Fledging is the stage in a volant animal's life between hatching or parturition and flight.
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Forty-Fours
The Forty-Fours are a group of islands in the Chatham Archipelago, about east of the main Chatham Island.
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Fulmar
The fulmars are tubenosed seabirds of the family Procellariidae.
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Great albatross
The great albatrosses are seabirds in the genus Diomedea in the albatross family.
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Humboldt Current
The Humboldt Current, also called the Peru Current, is a cold, low-salinity ocean current that flows north along the western coast of South America.
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Ibis (journal)
Ibis, subtitled the International Journal of Avian Science, is the peer-reviewed scientific journal of the British Ornithologists' Union.
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International Union for Conservation of Nature
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
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Introduced species
An introduced species (alien species, exotic species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species) is a species living outside its native distributional range, which has arrived there by human activity, either deliberate or accidental.
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Lancelot Eric Richdale
Lancelot Eric Richdale (4 January 1900 – 19 December 1983) was a New Zealand teacher and amateur ornithologist.
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Leonard Cutler Sanford
Leonard Cutler Sanford (September 19, 1868 – December 7, 1950) was an American surgeon and amateur ornithologist who served as a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History for nearly thirty years and who was instrumental in building up its bird collections.
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Longline fishing
Longline fishing is a commercial fishing technique.
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Mandible
The mandible, lower jaw or jawbone is the largest, strongest and lowest bone in the human face.
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Nostril
A nostril (or naris, plural nares) is one of the two channels of the nose, from the point where they bifurcate to the external opening.
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Otago Peninsula
The Otago Peninsula is a long, hilly indented finger of land that forms the easternmost part of Dunedin, New Zealand.
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Patagonian Shelf
The Patagonian or Argentine Shelf is part of the South American continental shelf belonging to the Argentine Sea on the Atlantic seaboard, south of about 35°S.
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Procellariiformes
Procellariiformes is an order of seabirds that comprises four families: the albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters, and 2 families of storm petrels.
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Proventriculus
The proventriculus is part of the digestive system of birds.
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Red-billed gull
The red-billed gull (Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae scopulinus), once also known as the mackerel gull, is a native of New Zealand, being found throughout the country and on outlying islands including the Chatham Islands and subantarctic islands.
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Robert Cushman Murphy
The whaling ship, ''Daisy'', which Murphy traveled on to the Antarctic Robert Cushman Murphy (April 29, 1887 – March 20, 1973) was an American ornithologist and Lamont Curator of birds at the American Museum of Natural History.
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Salp
A salp (plural salps), salpa (plural salpae or salpas), is a barrel-shaped, planktonic tunicate.
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Seabird
Seabirds (also known as marine birds) are birds that are adapted to life within the marine environment.
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Shearwater
Shearwaters are medium-sized long-winged seabirds.
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South Island
The South Island (Māori: Te Waipounamu) is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island.
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Southern royal albatross
The southern royal albatross (Diomedea epomophora) is a large seabird from the albatross family.
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Stoat
The stoat (Mustela erminea), also known as the short-tailed weasel or simply the weasel in Ireland where the least weasel does not occur, is a mammal of the genus Mustela of the family Mustelidae native to Eurasia and North America, distinguished from the least weasel by its larger size and longer tail with a prominent black tip.
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Stomach oil
Stomach oil is the light oil composed of neutral dietary lipids found in the proventriculus (fore-gut) of birds in the order Procellariiformes.
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Storm petrel
Storm petrel may refer to one of two bird families, both in the order Procellariiformes, once treated as the same family.
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Taiaroa Head
Taiaroa Head is a headland at the end of the Otago Peninsula in New Zealand, overlooking the mouth of the Otago Harbour.
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The Sisters (New Zealand)
The Sisters, or Rangitatahi in Maori,Government of New Zealand, Dept.
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Triglyceride
A triglyceride (TG, triacylglycerol, TAG, or triacylglyceride) is an ester derived from glycerol and three fatty acids (from tri- and glyceride).
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Wax ester
A wax ester (WE) is an ester of a fatty acid and a fatty alcohol.
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WorldView-3
WorldView-3 is a commercial Earth observation satellite owned by DigitalGlobe.
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Diomedea epomophora sanfordi, Diomedea sanfordi, Northern Royal Albatross.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_royal_albatross
