Procellariiformes
Procellariiformes (albatrosses, diving petrels, petrels, shearwaters, storm petrels; class Aves) An order of small to large sea-birds that have small to large bills with horny plates and tubular nostrils. They secrete oil which can be regurgitated in defence and which gives them a musty smell. They are
pelagic, marine birds, feeding on fish, plankton, crustaceans, and other invertebrates, and nesting on isolated islands and cliffs. There are four families, found world-wide.
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Christmas Shearwater Egg Dimensions and Shell Characteristics on Laysan Island, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: Wilson Bulletin; 9/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...equations for the volume of the eggs of Procellariiformes, but measured egg lengths and breadths...Shearwater are close to predictions for Procellariiformes in general. This finding supports...relationships of eggs and eggshells of Procellariiformes between tropical and non-tropical...
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Pests of Stored Foodstuffs and Their Control.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Food Trade Review; 9/1/2003; 536 words
; ...Types of pests; Types of damage; Storage structures; Food and produce transportation; Pests: Class Mammalia; Pests: Class Aves; Pests: Phylum Mollusca (Class Gastropoda); Pests: Class Arachnida; Pests: Class Insecta; Pests: Phylum Platyhelminthes...
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Hokkaido University publishes research in chromosome research.
Newspaper article from: Science Letter; 3/17/2009; 700+ words
; ...DMRT1-CHD1-GHR-ATP5A1, indicating that the origin of ZW chromosomes in G. hokouensis is the same as that in the class Aves, but is different from that in the suborder Ophidia. These results suggest that in reptiles the origin of sex chromosomes...
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The avian cecum: a review.
Magazine article from: Wilson Bulletin; 3/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...fingerlike in shape, looking much like simple lateral extensions of the intestine, but some are complex in structure. Within the Class Aves, ceca range in size from very long to very short, or they may be entirely absent (Table 1). Unlike the case in almost...
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New molecular biology findings from University of South Carolina described.(Report)
Newspaper article from: Life Science Weekly; 1/6/2009; 700+ words
; "Both mean genomes size and the variance in genome size among species are smaller on average in birds (class Aves) than in the other tetrapod classes. In order to test whether loss of protein-coding genes has contributed to genome size reduction...
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Personal insurance property damage caused by animal is reviewed
Magazine article from: Rough Notes; 3/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...meanings of the words with which we are concerned. His findings are as follows: A bird is "any warm blooded vertebrate of the class aves, having a body covered with feathers and forelimbs modified into wings." Vermin are "noxious or objectionable animals...
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Parental care in the Great Kiskadee.
Magazine article from: Wilson Bulletin; 6/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...provision of food to nestlings and fledglings. Oring (1982) suggested that oviparity and the appearance of endothermy in the Class Aves might have promoted the need for biparental care, as both factors require a large parental investment, leading to the advent...
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Studies from Max Planck Institute for Ornithology update current data on life sciences.
Newspaper article from: Life Science Weekly; 10/14/2008; 696 words
; ...genes belonging to a large gene clade, termed gamma-c, the expansion of which appears to be a shared characteristic of class Aves," wrote S.S. Steiger and colleagues, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology. The researchers concluded: "In summary...
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Letters.(OPINION)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 9/9/2004; 700+ words
; ...scientific findings on avian intelligence affect the way human society treats the sentient and intelligent animals who are from the class Aves rather than Mammalia. Karen Dawn Pacific Palisades, Calif. The Monitor welcomes your letters and opinion articles. Because...
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THE HUMBLE HEDGE SPARROW HAS A SEX LIFE AS EXCITING AS THAT OF CATHERINE THE GREAT NATURE Consider the Birds: How they Live and Why they Matter by Colin Tudge ALLAN LANE/PENGUIN, pounds 25, 461 pp Even the most unprepossessing of birds leads a complicated life, says Richard Fortey
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 11/16/2008; ; 700+ words
; You won't find any mention of 'our feathered friends' in Colin Tudge's survey of the Class Aves. That perky robin sitting on the garden fence watching you dig the garden, for example, is really there because he thinks you...
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Procellariiformes
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
Procellariiformes ( albatrosses , diving petrels , petrels , shearwaters , storm petrels ; class Aves ) An order of small to large sea-birds that...
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petrel
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
pet·rel / ˈpetrəl / • n. a seabird (order Procellariiformes, esp. families Procellariidae and Hydrobatidae) related to the shearwaters, typically flying far from land.
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petrels
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
petrels 1. See PROCELLARIIDAE ; PROCELLARIIFORMES . 2. ( diving petrels ) See PELECANOIDIDAE . 3. ( storm petrels , Oceanites and Oceanodroma ) See HYDROBATIDAE .
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shearwater
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...other, the silver-gray fulmar, of antarctic regions, have thick, stubby yellow bills. Shearwaters are classified in the phylum Chordata , subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Procellariiformes, family Procellariidae.
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albatross
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...feathers and wings in the 19th cent., and used in millinery and as "swansdown" pillow stuffings. Albatrosses are classified in the phylum Chordata , subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Procellariiformes, family Diomedeidae.
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