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albatross and them
The crew is angry with the Mariner, believing the albatross brought the south wind that led them out of the Antarctic.
Despite his cursing them as " slimy things " earlier in the poem (" Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs / upon the slimy sea "), he suddenly sees their true beauty and blesses them (" a spring of love gush'd from my heart and I bless'd them unaware "); suddenly, as he manages to pray, the albatross falls from his neck and his guilt is partially expiated.
The albatrosses have been described as " the most legendary of birds ", and have a variety of myths and legends associated with them, and today it is widely considered unlucky to harm them, although the notion that sailors believed that is a myth which derives from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem, " The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ", in which a sailor is punished for killing an albatross by having to wear its corpse around his neck.
The mice have since grown unusually large and have learned to attack albatross chicks, which can be nearly 1 m tall, but are largely immobile, by working in groups and gnawing on them until they bleed to death.
They superficially resemble the albatross, and are the only procellarids who can equal them in size.
They are also capable of killing other seabirds, even those as large as an albatross, which they kill either by battering them to death ( most commonly chicks of other species during the breeding season ) or drowning.

albatross and out
If that stuff starts coming out, people will go bananas and she'll go from being the new Jackie O to being something of an albatross ".

albatross and Antarctic
The seabirds include: northern rockhopper penguin ( Eudyptes moseleyi ), Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross ( Thalassarche chlororhynchus ), sooty albatross ( Phoebetria fusca ), Atlantic petrel ( Pteradroma incerta ), great-winged petrel ( P. macroptera ), soft-plumaged petrel ( P. mollis ), broad-billed prion ( Pachyptila vittata ), grey petrel ( Procellaria cinerea ), great shearwater ( Puffinus gravis ), sooty shearwater ( P. griseus ), Tristan skua ( Catharacta antarctica hamiltoni ), Antarctic tern ( Sterna vittata tristanenis ), and brown noddy ( Anous stolidus ).
They go to test the isolated Blair and on the way see the first albatross of the Antarctic Spring flying overhead ; they shoot the bird to prevent a Thing from taking it over and flying to civilization.
Many birds ( including penguins ) lay their eggs and feed their chicks on the islands surrounding the Antarctic continent, especially South Georgia where both albatross and King penguins have their nesting sites throughout the year.
Other birds found at Inaccessible include the wandering albatross, rockhopper penguin, Tristan thrush, and the Antarctic tern.

albatross and even
Procellariiformes are long-lived, the longest living albatross known survived for 51 years, but was probably older, even the tiny storm-petrels are known to have survived for 30 years.
Other albatross are thought to match or maybe even exceed this record but few confirmations of very old albatross exist.

albatross and is
This is based on the fact that Pteranodon had a high aspect ratio ( wingspan to chord length ) similar to that of the albatross — 9: 1 for Pteranodon, compared to 8: 1 for an albatross.
Her name is a clue as to the Mariner's fate ; he will endure a fate worse than death as punishment for his killing of the albatross.
" As penance for shooting the albatross, the Mariner, driven by guilt, is forced to wander the earth, tell his story, and teach a lesson to those he meets:
The most impressive diving exhibited by shearwaters is found in the Short-tailed Shearwater, which has been recorded diving below 70 m. Some albatross species are also capable of some limited diving, with Light-mantled Sooty Albatrosses holding the record at 12 m. Of all the wing-propelled pursuit divers, the most efficient in the air are the albatrosses, and it is no coincidence that they are the poorest divers.
Española is the only place where the waved albatross nests.
The Black-browed Albatross or Black-browed Mollymawk, Thalassarche melanophrys, is a large seabird of the albatross family Diomedeidae ; it is the most widespread and common member of its family.
The Black-browed Albatross is a medium-sized albatross, at long with a wingspan and an average weight of.
The second memorial, unveiled in 2005 and located by the Egyptian escalator at door three is titled " Innocent Victims ", is a bronze statue of the two dancing on a beach beneath the wings of an albatross.
The albatross is a bird that is said to symbolise the " Holy Spirit ".
Its flight is powerful and direct, with wings held stiff and straight, giving the impression of a very small albatross.
The albatross is highlighted as one of the most skilled navigators: it can travel up to 1300 kilometres over sea in search of food for its chicks, and still find its way back to the nest.
The albatross is so large that it can only launch itself after a run-up to create a flow of air over its wings.

albatross and by
The plight of albatross and large seabirds, as well as other marine creatures, being taken as bycatch by long-line fisheries, has been addressed by a large number of non-governmental organizations ( including BirdLife International, the American Bird Conservancy, and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ).
Due to poor and often non-existent catch documentation by these vessels, the number of sea turtles and albatross caught by these vessels between 2000 and 2004 will never be known.
A message, carried by pointless albatross, arrives for Lord Vetinari from the Agatean Empire.
alt = Photo of bird struggling to fly awayOf the 21 albatross species recognised by IUCN on their Red List, 19 are threatened, and the other two are near threatened.
Attenborough observes that the monogamous relationships enjoyed by humans are rare within the animal kingdom, but he highlights the Royal albatross as a " beautiful " exception.
Gough Island in the South Atlantic is used by 20 species of seabird for breeding, including almost all of the world's Tristan albatross ( Diomedea dabbenena ) and Atlantic petrel ( Pterodroma incerta ).
* The 1973 Arab-Israeli war: The albatross of decisive victory by Dr. George W. Gawrych.
The waved albatross uses this to its advantage by gliding at speed into the wind.
His ship beset by storms, Hatley shot an albatross in the hope of better winds, an episode memorialised by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
The novel relates the fictional tale of a small and eccentric group of environmentalists attempting to save the albatross on the Pacific island of St. Esprit from nuclear tests by the French government.
Dr. Barbara is a disgraced doctor who forms a small band of environmentalists to attempt to save the albatross from nuclear testing by the French government on the remote Pacific island of St. Esprit.
While defending his BMW PGA Championship title in 2009, Jiménez scored a rare albatross ( double eagle ) by holing a 206-yard six-iron on his second shot on the par-five fourth.
She followed this up by winning the Women's British Open at Sunningdale where she became only the second player in history to record a double eagle or albatross at an LPGA major championship ( began the final round with an eagle, albatross on the first two holes ).

albatross and ship's
The concept of collective responsibility is present in literature, most notably in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's " The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ", a poem telling the tale of a ship's crew who died of thirst because they approved of one crew member's killing of an albatross.

albatross and crew
In anger, the crew forces the Mariner to wear the dead albatross about his neck, perhaps to illustrate the burden he must suffer from killing it, or perhaps as a sign of regret (" Ah!
The poem on the surface explores violation of nature and its resulting psychological effects on the Mariner, who interprets the fates of his crew to be a direct result of his having shot down an albatross.
Some days later, Columbus and the crew spot an albatross fly around the ship, before disappearing.

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