seabird

• “This implies that chronic food scarcity will compromise long-term seabird breeding success.”

  The Huffington Post: Carl Safina: Seabirds: The Other Seafood Lovers

• “A person regarded as stupid. 2 refers to a tropical seabird, which is probably invariably apolitical.”

  One more night of convention blogging. The Invesco Field extravaganza.

• “As Jonathan Balcombe points out in his wonderful book, the animal kingdom at large is a pretty sexy place, what with thick-billed murres (a kind of seabird) having their wicked way with clumps of vegetation, masturbating reptiles, lesbian hedgehogs (I kid you not), gay fruit bats, dolphins with sex toys, and bonobos being pretty much up for anything at all.”

  thinkBuddha.org

• “Guano, a key contributor to 19th-century farming, was renewable fertilizer, made from seabird dung harvested off Peruvian and Namibian islands, but it soon ran out.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Inconvenient Truths About 'Renewable' Energy

• “A tufted puffin from the north Pacific, a medium-sized black seabird with distinctive white facial markings, was recently seen in the UK, though only a handful of spotters were involved and they only got a brief glimpse.”

  The Guardian: Rare birds flock to British shores in record numbers

• “I remember being so enthralled by one scene, where the sailors were trying to capture a seabird that had landed on the gunwale, that I almost shouted at my sister, who came into the room just then, Shut up!”

  Iain Lawrence Talks About Himself

• “And friendly as a ghost our seabird goes through the pockets hole by hole looking for the meaning of its own ancient hunger.”

  Fictionaut: Flying Debris

• “The scientists looked at 14 seabird species across 7 ecosystems.”

  The Huffington Post: Carl Safina: Seabirds: The Other Seafood Lovers

• “And another thing happens at the threshold; seabird breeding success becomes not just lower but more variable, a wider range of good and bad.”

  The Huffington Post: Carl Safina: Seabirds: The Other Seafood Lovers

• “The scientists found that seabird breeding success was fairly high and stable when prey densities were average or above.”

  The Huffington Post: Carl Safina: Seabirds: The Other Seafood Lovers

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