shearwater
shearwater
Definition
shear·water (s̸hir′wôt′ər, -wät′-)
shearwater
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- pass: There are numerous Atlantic Gray Seal on this coast and we may see passing Manx Shearwater.
- see: We hoped that the wind would improve our chances of seeing a few shearwaters on the crossing.
- streak: More Bulwer's petrels, brown boobies and one streaked shearwater.
- include: Sea birds include shearwaters, fulmars, petrels and royal and wandering albatross.
- linger: The strong offshore winds saw to it that the sea produced nothing more than a few lingering Manx Shearwaters and an Arctic Skua.
- produce: Seawatching produced just a few Manx Shearwaters off the Bill.
Adjective modifier
- Manx: August 12 th: A Manx Shearwater from North Light was the best bird today.
- sooty: Sooty Shearwater: In June there are normally one or two records.
- distant: A Great Crested Tern was seen as was a distant shearwater which we set off after in hot pursuit but never relocated.
- single: In calm, sunny conditions the sea was very quiet with nothing better than a single Manx Shearwater passing through off the Bill.
- few: We hoped that the wind would improve our chances of seeing a few shearwaters on the crossing.
- small: The seabird movement was slow but we did see both Cory's and smaller shearwaters going past the headland.
Modifies a noun
- puffinus: Gough is also a major breeding site of the great shearwater Puffinus gravis with up to three million pairs breeding on the island.
Noun used with modifier
- Manx: Also on the pelagic 20 Manx Shearwater were seen well south of the islands flying strongly southwest, migrating?
