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short-tailed shearwater

noun

  1. a large Australian shearwater that migrates to the northern hemisphere in the southern winter

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Scientists also retrieved a very skinny short-tailed shearwater for analysis at the U.S.

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Related: Drowning in plastic Hardesty said she had seen an entire glowstick and three balloons in a single short-tailed shearwater bird.

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We at last attracted the attention of a short-tailed shearwater.

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The others are the Wedge-tailed shearwater, Sooty shearwater P. griseus and Short-tailed shearwater.

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