Manx shearwater

noun

1. a European oceanic bird, Puffinus puffinus, with long slender wings and black-and-white plumage: family Procellariidae (shearwaters)

Example Sentences

The Manx Shearwater comes next in size, but it is a dark-plumaged bird on the upper parts, only white below.

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St. Kildans say that the Manx Shearwater is one of their first bird visitors in spring, and amongst the last to leave in autumn.

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Throughout the summer the Manx Shearwater is nocturnal, and at the approach of darkness becomes very garrulous.

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