shearwaters in English

noun
1
a long-winged seabird related to the petrels, often flying low over the surface of the water far from land.
A related species, the whiskered auklet, has a similar tangerine-like plumage odor, and other sea birds such as shearwaters and storm petrels have distinct musky odors.

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1. Short-tailed shearwaters have travelled 10,000 miles from Australia to be here.

2. Investigate methods to identify and describe marine critical habitat in Canada and other jurisdictions, and determine how or whether these apply to Short-tailed Albatrosses or Pink-footed Shearwaters in Canada. Outcome/Rationale Determination of whether critical habitat applies to Short-tailed Albatrosses and Pink-footed Shearwaters.

3. 26 Typical of young shearwaters, it was just a ball of grey down with a beak sticking out.

4. ‘Usually you can expect to see great numbers of pelagic birds - gannets, shearwaters, jaegers, storm-petrels, Alcids - that live mainly at sea.’

5. A total of 17 different groups of seabirds were taken into account, including: loons, grebes, fulmars and petrels, shearwaters, pelicans, cormorants, shorebirds, gulls and kittawakes, terns, skimmers, and Alcids