shearwater

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Although the Manx shearwater, as a species, is not under threat, he added that the findings helped improve our understanding of what was happening in the world's seas and oceans.

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  1. noun Any of various oceanic birds of the genus Puffinus, having a short hooked bill with tube-shaped nostrils and long slender wings that appear to shear the water as the bird flies along the surface.

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  • The birds were the endangered Tristan albatross (Diomedea dabbenena), the vulnerable Atlantic petrel (Pterodroma incerta) and the great shearwater (Puffinus gravis). —  SNAIL'S TALES
  • (Frigatebird in New York) a short blurb a couple of days ago about my plans to scour the south shore of Long Island in the wake of Tropical Storm Hanna I had anticipated maybe finding a good tern or perhaps a shearwater near the shore. —  10,000 Birds
  • Although the Manx shearwater, as a species, is not under threat, he added that the findings helped improve our understanding of what was happening in the world's seas and oceans. —  BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
  • Here, we investigated the demographic consequences of predator eradication for Cory's shearwater Calonectris diomedea, breeding in the Mediterranean, using a population model that integrates demographic rates estimated from individual life-history information with experimental measures of predation and habitat structure. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • We found that similar values of population growth rate can be obtained by different combinations of habitat characteristics, predator abundance and adult mortality, which explains the persistence of shearwater colonies in islands with introduced predators. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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  1. Formerly also sheerwater, sherewater; from shear, v., + obj. water.
 

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