How to Use seabird in a Sentence

seabird

noun

• In the summer months, caracaras can feed on seabird colonies.
  — Darren Incorvaia, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• There was much mud, and not a seabird to scratch at it anywhere.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 7 May 2018
• Take seabirds, those birds that spend their days on open water.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 4 Dec. 2019
• Sebastian the crab, Flounder the fish and Scuttle the seabird.
  — Vulture, 22 May 2023
• Enjoy the seabirds in the marshes but watch your line — this is the most crowded bike path in the county.
  — Brian Coyne, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 May 2018
• A tern — one of many seabirds common to the marshes the group was touring in Masonville Cove.
  — Scott Dance, Washington Post, 1 July 2017
• In a major surprise, none of the remains belonged to a seabird.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 21 May 2019
• The other islands are rat free and contain huge colonies of seabirds.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 12 July 2018
• The Alia, a sleek, all-white aircraft with angular wings, looks like the offspring of an F-16 and a seabird.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• The white tern is a slight and elegant seabird with stark white feathers, a sharp black-and-blue bill, and jet black eyes.
  — Melody Bentz, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2021
• Surfers, sharks, seabirds and even a swarm of bees also will make an appearance.
  — Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2023
• The schooling fish makes up a key piece of the Atlantic Ocean’s food web, as important prey for whales, seabirds and large fish.
  — Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2017
• The beach was deserted except for seabirds and chunks of driftwood.
  — Ruby Opalka, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2024
• The algae produce toxins that can kill fish and the seabirds that eat them, and sicken humans.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
• Even tiny amounts of oil could doom seabirds Get more great content like this delivered right to you!
  — Ryan Cross, Science | AAAS, 7 July 2017
• Audubon’s shearwater, a seabird named for John James Audubon, also will get a new name.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 6 Nov. 2023
• There would be severe declines of penguins and other die-offs of seabirds and seals.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 13 June 2018
• The zoo has had exhibits featuring the squat seabirds since 1987, but this is the first puffin chick to hatch there, according to the zoo.
  — Kristi Belcamino, Twin Cities, 15 Aug. 2019
• The deposits, left by seabirds, seals and other sea mammals could be scores, even hundreds of feet deep.
  — Steve Haycox, Alaska Dispatch News, 20 Oct. 2017
• Those seabirds evolved in the absence of mice or other mammalian nest predators.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 10 Dec. 2019
• The waste threatens and kills marine mammals, seabirds, turtles, and fish.
  — Amanda Paulson, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2017
• But some elegant terns — anchovy-loving seabirds that nest in large colonies — fly all the way down to Chile.
  — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• Some of the species include marine turtles, shorebirds and seabirds.
  — Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2024
• The Borgue Coast is home to large seabird colonies, as well as dune grassland vegetation.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
• Recent unusual ocean heat has been linked to deaths of sea lions, whales, seabirds and crabs.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2018
• They were built to store a whole range of things on which the islanders depended: grains, ropes, salted seabirds, cured fish, peat, seabirds’ eggs.
  — Neel Mukherjee, New York Times, 7 May 2018
• Howard said that three or four sooty terns (seabirds) working a weedline is often a good sign of dolphin.
  — Steve Waters, Sun-Sentinel.com, 25 May 2017
• The ecologist pointed a large camera skyward and snapped a picture of the seabird gliding on the strong ocean breeze.
  — Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2019
• The community of about 700 people relies on wild foods like seabird eggs, berries, moose and especially salmon, which have been hit hard by climate change.
  — Anna Canny, NPR, 13 Sep. 2024
• If infected, ‘pirate seabirds’ could rapidly spread the avian flu because of their ability to cover vast distances.
  — Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024