How to Use shearwater in a Sentence

shearwater

noun

• Keep your eyes peeled for rare wildlife such as the Balearic shearwater and Lilford’s wall lizard.
  — Benjamin Kemper, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Feb. 2018
• And Shearwaters aren’t the only birds that use a sense of smell to navigate.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 30 Aug. 2017
• This is the bird: Ardenna grisea, the sooty shearwater.
  — Tom McNamara, Popular Science, 3 Dec. 2020
• The island is a nesting site for rare species of petrels, shearwaters and terns.
  — Evan Halper, latimes.com, 18 Sep. 2017
• In years past, shearwaters have been found beached in large numbers in other parts of the United States.
  — Joe Trezza, New York Times, 14 July 2017
• Like nearly all seabirds, shearwaters are only on land to breed and raise young.
  — Stephen Leahy, National Geographic, 2 Aug. 2019
• Some years 90 percent of shearwater fledglings were found to have at least one piece of plastic in their stomachs.
  — Stephen Leahy, National Geographic, 2 Aug. 2019
• Seabirds that are strong flyers; gulls, shearwaters, petrels, and jaegers; will usually exit the storm first.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 22 Sep. 2017
• And amid a tornado of shearwaters, murres, gulls and pelicans, all working on the hapless baitfish pushed to the surface by the salmon.
  — Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 4 Aug. 2023
• Indeed, the flesh-footed shearwater has one of the highest plastic ingestion rates of any species yet studied.
  — Matthew Savoca, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2023
• Tropic birds, shearwaters, petrels, terns, boobies, and other birds of the open ocean roost and forage on sargassum mats.
  — David Doubilet, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• Some, such as the great shearwater, were in molt, a vulnerable period when birds shed and regrow feathers.
  — Dean Russell, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2021
• This is impressive on an island that, until 50 years ago, relied upon the greasy-gray Balearic shearwater seabird for protein.
  — Maya Boyd, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Aug. 2022
• Arctic terns stole the world record from the shearwater after researchers finally created a tracking device that was light enough to use on them.
  — Discover Magazine, 4 May 2011
• The identification of plasticosis in shearwaters shows that there is no time to waste.
  — Matthew Savoca, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2023
• The researchers behind today’s paper dissected 85 northern fulmars and Cory’s shearwaters caught in the wild.
  — WIRED, 27 Mar. 2023
• Offshore: Small flocks of red-necked phalaropes, parasitic and pomarine jaegers, roseate terns, and larger groups of storm-petrels and shearwaters numbering into the hundreds were seen from Jeffrey’s Ledge.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2019
• Two nights are spent on Stewart, whose rain forests and coastal areas harbor a wealth of birds, including albatrosses, shearwaters and several species of penguins.
  — Phil Marty, chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2018
• All those birds, incuding boobies, frigatebirds, noddies, shearwaters and terns, poop.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 12 July 2018
• Dolby six-channel surround sound blasts from two 4-foot-high Shearwater main speakers, a floor subwoofer, center-channel speaker, and rear speakers built into the ceiling.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2002
• Cory's shearwaters are long-lived, rarely breeding successfully before age nine.
  — Jason G. Goldman, Scientific American, 1 May 2020
• The team also found, not surprisingly, that the birds most attracted to the DMS odor are the albatrosses, petrels, and shearwaters that are most severely affected by plastic consumption.
  — Laura Parker, National Geographic, 9 Nov. 2016
• Forktail storm petrels, fulmars, shearwaters, kittiwakes, auklets and puffins also died.
  — Dan Joling, The Seattle Times, 16 Apr. 2019
• Also seen was a manx shearwater near Scituate Light, as well as eight pomarine jaegers in Scituate Harbor.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2021
• Officials recorded deaths of forktail storm petrels, fulmars, shearwaters, kittiwakes, auklets and puffins.
  — Dan Joling, The Seattle Times, 11 Aug. 2018
• But if flocking birds were easily confused in low visibility, which is pretty normal up and down coastal California, then shearwater invasions would be as common as passing rain.
  — Tom McNamara, Popular Science, 3 Dec. 2020
• The islands are also protected habitats for Manx shearwaters, northern fulmar, black-legged kittiwake, razorbill, guillemot, peregrine falcon and storm petrel.
  — Julia Blakely, Smithsonian, 11 Jan. 2018
• To continue the species’ recovery, conservationists are building a fence around a vital and remote nesting area, making the shearwater the first marine bird protected under a national conservation plan.
  — Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024