Word: petrel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disastrous decline in the population of the bald eagle, which is the U.S. national symbol-and the emblem of next week's Apollo 11 flight. Other predators, such as the osprey and peregrine falcon, are gradually vanishing, as are the brown pelican and the extremely rare Bermuda petrel...
...BIRDS. Hawaiian dark-rumped petrel, California least tern, the Aleutian Canada and Tule white-fronted goose, Laysan and Mexican duck, California condor, Florida Everglade kite, Southern bald eagle, masked bobwhite, whooping crane, Yuma and light-footed clapper rails, Eskimo curlew, Puerto Rican parrot, American ivory-billed woodpecker and Northern and Southern red-cock-aded woodpeckers, Laysan and Nihoa finches, Bachman's and Kirtland's warblers, dusky seaside and Cape Sable sparrows, and Hawaii's duck, goose, hawk, stilt, crow, gallinule and coot...
...Hawaiian dark-rumped petrel, the blunt-nosed leopard lizard, the Santa Cruz long-toed salamander and the Col orado River squawfish - to say nothing of the timber wolf, the grizzly bear and the American alligator - may soon go the way of the dinosaur: to extinction...
...eyed after two days without sleep, stocky, sandy-haired Rear Admiral William Guest ordered crewmen on the sea-stained, 2,100-ton submarine rescue ship U.S.S. Petrel to start heaving in on the winch. Four cold, tense hours later, as dawn exploded over the Mediterranean horizon, the sunken 2,800-lb. H-bomb that had defied every attempt at retrieval for 80 days splashed out of the water onto the Petrel's fantail...
...bomb's debut was about as razzmatazz as a church-sponsored striptease. Its size and megatonnage were not announced, and technicians carefully covered all revealing parts with masking tape. What Spanish officials and 80 newsmen got to see on the Petrel's fantail-from 100 ft. away -was a slightly dented, porpoise-shaped, silver-colored tube about 10 ft. long. Just the way it looked in Thunderball...