The Ocean Bird is a class of trimaran sailboat designed by John Westell and produced by Honnor Marine Ltd. at Totnes, Teignmouth in the 1970s, featuring...
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Albatrosses nesting in the Southern Ocean often undertake circumpolar trips between breeding seasons. Some bird species undertake shorter migrations...
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The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approximately 70.8% of Earth. In English, the term ocean also refers to any of the large bodies of water...
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The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering 70,560,000 km2 (27,240,000 sq mi) or approximately 20% of the water...
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The islands of the Indian Ocean are part of either the eastern, western, or southern areas. Some prominently large islands include Madagascar, Sri Lanka...
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Bird migration is a seasonal movement of birds between breeding and wintering grounds that occurs twice a year. It is typically from north to south or...
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official adjudicator of ocean rowing records for Guinness World Records. ORSI was founded in 1983 in California by ocean rower Peter Bird and Kenneth F.Crutchlow...
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John Westell (section Ocean Bird trimaran class)
sailboat designer, who is noted for designing the 505 sailing dinghy and the Ocean Bird class of trimarans. Westell also designed cruising sailboats. Born Woodroffe...
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Pelagic zone (redirect from Open ocean)
reach maturity.[citation needed] Pelagic birds, also called oceanic birds or seabirds, live on open seas and oceans rather than inland or around more restricted...
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The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about 85,133,000 km2 (32,870,000 sq mi). It covers approximately...
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the title of first solo rower of any ocean. In 1974, Derek Paul King and Peter Bird rowed across the Atlantic Ocean from Gibraltar to St. Lucia in Britannia...
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Cormorant (redirect from Shag (bird))
of any flying bird. Cormorants nest in colonies around the shore, on trees, islets or cliffs. They are coastal rather than oceanic birds, and some have...
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sparkling foam, Like an ocean bird set free; Like the ocean bird, our home We'll find far out on the sea. (Chorus) A life on the ocean wave, A home on the...
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The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the world ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude...
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White-tailed tropicbird (redirect from White-tailed Tropic-bird)
tropical oceans and smallest member of the order Phaethontiformes. It is found in the tropical Atlantic, western Pacific and Indian Oceans. It also breeds...
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American Museum of Natural History (redirect from Milstein Hall of Ocean Life)
Harry Payne Whitney and comprising 750,000 birds, opened in 1939. Later known as the Hall of Oceanic Birds, it was completed and dedicated in 1953. It...
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Sooty albatross (category Birds of islands of the Atlantic Ocean)
Atlantic Ocean, the southern Indian Ocean, and the Southern Ocean. This bird scavenges for squid, fish, and carrion. Like other albatrosses, these birds mate...
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film Ocean's 8, a spin-off of the Ocean's franchise, which was a commercial success. That same year, she starred in the post-apocalyptic thriller Bird Box...
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dives into the cosmic ocean to bring up and form the earth. A diving bird, catching a lump of earth from the primordial ocean, often appears in the mythologies...
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Road in Middletown, Rhode Island overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. In 1949, the Norman Bird Sanctuary was founded through a bequest in the will of Mabel...
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An ocean current is a continuous, directed movement of seawater generated by a number of forces acting upon the water, including wind, the Coriolis effect...
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The Peng was a gigantic bird phase of the gigantic Kun fish. The Jingwei is a mythical bird which tries to fill up the ocean with twigs and pebbles symbolizing...
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Sooty tern (category Birds of the Atlantic Ocean)
(Onychoprion fuscatus) is a seabird in the family Laridae. It is a bird of the tropical oceans, returning to land only to breed on islands throughout the equatorial...
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The largest extant species of bird measured by mass is the common ostrich (Struthio camelus), closely followed by the Somali ostrich (Struthio molybdophanes)...
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Frigatebird (redirect from Frigate-bird)
S2CID 13466300. James, David J.; McAllan, Ian A.W. (2014). "The birds of Christmas Island, Indian Ocean: A review" (PDF). Australian Field Ornithology. 31 (Supplement):...
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Red-footed booby (category Birds of the Atlantic Ocean)
Atlantic islands S. s. rubripes Gould, 1838 – tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans S. s. websteri Rothschild, 1898 – eastern central Pacific The red-footed...
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Snowy albatross (category Birds of the Southern Ocean)
any living bird and is also one of the most far-ranging birds. Some individual snowy albatrosses are known to circumnavigate the Southern Ocean three times...
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catching twenty. The following winter (1858–59), commanding the bark Ocean Bird and accompanied by the schooner tenders A.M. Simpson and Kate, he returned...
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Muttonbird (redirect from Mutton bird)
Muttonbird or mutton bird may refer to species of petrel, especially shearwaters, whose young are harvested for food and other uses before they fledge...
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Fledge (redirect from Fledgling (bird))
to fly as far as possible, before crash landing on the ocean. Skutch, A.F. (1976). Parent Birds and Their Young. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292746343...
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