shearwater's Usage Examples:

315) speaks of comparing his own drawing "with Brown's old draught of it, still preserved in the British Museum," and thus identifies the latter's "shearwater" with the "puffin of the Isle of Man.

The strong offshore winds saw to it that the sea produced nothing more than a few lingering Manx shearwaters and an Arctic Skua.

Four species of Puffinus are recorded as visiting the coasts of the United Kingdom; but the Manx shearwater is the only one that at all commonly breeds in the British Islands.

They catch puffins, fulmar petrels, guillemots, razorbirds, Manx shearwaters and solan geese both for their oil and for food.

We hoped that the wind would improve our chances of seeing a few shearwaters on the crossing.

The seabird movement was slow but we did see both Cory's and smaller shearwaters going past the headland.

"They are rich in sea-fowl, the most common being the eider duck, puffin, Manx shearwater, black guillemot, kittiwake and herring gull.

The last census also provided the first reliable estimates of the number of breeding petrels and shearwaters, using recently developed techniques.

All over the world shearwaters seem to have precisely the same habits, laying their single purely white egg in a hole under ground.

Dictionary) as to the alliance between the words shear and scrape it may be that Browne's hesitation as to the derivation of "shearwater" had more ground than at first appears.

Hundreds of shearwaters were dashing over the sea, as were a number of giant petrels.

They are rich in sea-fowl, the most common being the eider duck, puffin, Manx shearwater, black guillemot, kittiwake and herring gull.

Other birds peculiar to the south are two species of quails, the Andalusian hemipode (Turnix sylvatica), confined to the plains of Andalusia, the southern shearwater (Puffinus cinereus), and other water-birds.

Synonyms:

Puffinus puffinus, petrel, Manx shearwater, genus Puffinus, Puffinus,

Antonyms:

None