can anyone tell me what is a albatross?
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It is actually a large sea bird.  For more info, please go here: http://www.aolsvc.worldbook.aol.com/wb/Article?id=ar010920&sc=-1
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Strom-petrel is a type of small seabird in the family Hydrobatidae, part of the order Procellariiformes. These smallest of seabirds, relatives of the petrels, feed on planktonic crustaceans and small fish picked from the surface, typically while hovering. The flight is fluttering and sometimes bat-like.\n\nStorm-petrels have a cosmopolitan distribution, being found in all oceans. They are strictly pelagic, coming to land only when breeding. In the case of most species, little is known of their behaviour and distribution at sea, where they can be hard to find and harder to identify.\n\nStorm-petrels nest in colonies on islands, arriving in the evenings. One white egg is laid in a burrow in turf or soft soil. Both sexes incubate in shifts of up to six days. The egg hatches after 40 or 50 days; the young is brooded continuously for another 7 days or so before being left alone in the nest during the day and fed by regurgitation at night. Nestlings and parents leave the nest together after 60 or 70 days.\n\nThe name "petrel" is a diminutive form of "Peter", a reference to Saint Peter; it was given to these birds because they sometimes appear to walk across the water's surface. Early sailors named these birds "Mother Carey's Chickens" because they were thought to warn of oncoming storms; this name is based on a corrupted form of Mater Cara, a name for the Blessed Virgin Mary.\n\nThere are two subfamilies. The Oceanitinadae are mostly found in southern waters; there are 7 species in 5 genera. These have short wings, square tails, elongated skulls, and feed by hopping and fluttering on the water. All but one species have white underparts; the exception is Wilson's Storm-petrel which is also the only one to regularly migrate any great distance into the northern hemisphere.\n\nThe Hydrobatinae are thought to descend from an ancestor of Wilson's Storm-petrel. The 14 species in 3 closely related genera have longer wings, forked or wedge-shaped tails, and walk on the water rather than hop. All but two are wholly dark in colour. They are largely restricted to the northern hemisphere, although a few can visit or breed a short distance beyond the equator.
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It looks that the answer is... YES!\nIt's a bird called JERDON'S COURSER [Rhinoptilus bitorquatus], an endangered species, one of the fifty rarest birds of the world. It is a rare and local endemic to the Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh and extreme southern Madhya Pradesh, India, with a population estimated at 50-250 individuals.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_bird\n\nlists a bunch of types
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Bernard and Miss Bianca were the mice.  The albatross birds were named Wilbur and Orville (after the Wright Bros.). That's all I can think of.\n\n"The Resucers": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076618/\n\n"The Rescuers Down Under": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100477/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_flight
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If it has wings it's a "fly"\nIf it doesn't it's  "grounded"!!! \nThat was a cute question. I'd never thought of that....LOL ;o)
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It's a type of penguin.\n\nAdelies are the archetypal penguins that are supposed to look like men in their dinner suits. They have a white front and a black back. They also have a white ring around the eye that is most pronounced in the breeding season. Juveniles can be recognised by their white chins.  \nChicks have uniform grey black plumage\n\n\ns
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A wonderful bird is the pelican,\nIts beak can hold more than its belly can.\n\n:)
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In simple terms, it is like a thumb for birds, it helps control their flight.\n\nIf you are looking for a more complex answer...see below:\n\n"The alula, or bastard wing, is a small, feathered projection on the anterior edge of the wing of modern birds. It is actually the thumb of the bird, and has been modified into an aerodynamical control device not too dissimilar from the forward slat on an airplane wing. Usually flush against the wing, the alula may be moved to modify the shape of the wing or provide a slat for direction of airflow, often to avoid stalling while landing. It has been found in all modern birds since Eoalulavis hoyasi, a primitive bird from the mid-Cretaceous, 115 million years ago."
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This is sybil's first question. Try and give her a good answer.\nI'm sure someone out there has a good idea of what it could be.\nAnybody got a bird book? Cause now I really want to know too.
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space\ncrane (the bird)
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I'm guessing it was a tern. They may appear to have an orange ring because the base of the bill is orange and the end of the bill is black. They do dive.\n\nDid it look anything like this?\nhttp://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i0700id.html
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Lepidopterist\n\nThis is named after the Order of Insects known as the Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths.\n\n[orinthologist - see above - is a mis-spelling of ornithologist, which is someone who studies birds, not insects. The study of insects in general is performed by an entomologist]
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It was a swallow....\n\n\nArthur: The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land? \nSoldier #1: Are you suggesting coconuts migrate? \nArthur: Not at all. They could be carried. \nSoldier #1: What? A swallow carrying a coconut? \nArthur: It could grip it by the husk! \nSoldier #1: It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut. \nArthur: Well, it doesn't matter. Will you go and tell your master that Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here? \nSoldier #1: Listen. In order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second, right? \nArthur: Please! \nSoldier #1: Am I right? \nArthur: I'm not interested! \nSoldier #2: It could be carried by an African swallow! \nSoldier #1: Oh, yeah, an African swallow maybe, but not a European swallow. That's my point. \nSoldier #2: Oh, yeah, I agree with that. \nArthur: Will you ask your master if he wants to join my court at Camelot?! \nSoldier #1: But then of course a-- African swallows are non-migratory. \nSoldier #2: Oh, yeah... \nSoldier #1: So, they couldn't bring a coconut back anyway... \n[clop clop clop]\nSoldier #2: Wait a minute! Supposing two swallows carried it together? \nSoldier #1: No, they'd have to have it on a line. \nSoldier #2: Well, simple! They'd just use a strand of creeper! \nSoldier #1: What, held under the dorsal guiding feathers? \nSoldier #2: Well, why not?
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Cool question. They are gregarious (like groups) wading birds related to other large wading birds such as \nBoatbills, Shoebills, Hammerkops, storks, ibises and spoonbills.\n\nYou can find the scientific classification and their spot in the bird family tree at the link below!
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They fly and land a lot like pigeons, so I don't think they have a distinctive flight pattern.  At least, not distinctive enough to notice.  It's probably more that it's easy to spot a dove in flight (because it's white) rather than the way it flies.