He provided calculations of the wing loading and other aerodynamic characteristics of species like the wandering albatross, turkey vulture, and other soaring birds.
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The average life span is unknown but in common with seabirds such as the wandering albatross and Leach's storm petrel, frigatebirds are long-lived.
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I also imagined the Wandering Albatross as being man-sized, when stood up straight .-- talk ) 12 : 55, 27 July 2009 ( UTC)
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Between 1959-62, a great number of the island's wandering albatross were ringed, which gave startling data about their range-one bird was found in Australia.
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The continents are surrounded by drawings of the ruby-throated hummingbird, the wandering albatross, the blue-and-white sparrow and 64 other species, in full, flying color.
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Similar in appearance to the wandering albatross, adult birds have white on the back, extending along the upper surface of the wings near the body.
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Almost on cue, our Global Satellite Positioning System read off 40 degrees south latitude and the first giant wandering albatross flew in to check us out.
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It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee ( UK-APC ) after the wandering albatross ( Diomedea exulans ) whose principal breeding grounds are nearby.
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Primarily targeting winter feeding aggregations of wandering albatrosses near Sydney, it developed its own catching methods and initiated what has become the longest-running continuous albatross research study in the world.
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Studies of wandering albatross have shown over 10 % of chicks are extra-pair young; an extremely surprising result since adult wandering albatrosses only breed once every other year when successful.
