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shearwaters
n. (plural of shearwater English)
Usage examples of "shearwaters".
The terns, the sandpipers, gulls, shearwaters, egrets, and curlews seemed to have vanished.
To be sure, they are less sharply black and white than those of the Atlantic, but they are shearwaters for all that - the same voice by night in their burrows, the same solitary white egg, the same grossly obese chick.
Lisa June Peterson, having already researched the question, reported that shearwaters were migratory seabirds that preferred the Atlantic coastline.
Overhead, gulls and shearwaters hovered at the outer glow of the lamps.