shearwater
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shearwater (plural shearwaters)
- Any of the long-winged pelagic seabirds of the family Procellariidae in genera Puffinus, Ardenna, and Calonectris, that breed on islands and coastal cliffs.
- 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 53:
- At first I would not eat a frigate bird, a booby or a shearwater, but after a few months on the island I tried one broiled over coconut-shell coals, and I have never since missed an opportunity for such a feast.
- (by extension) Any of the entire family Procellariidae, including certain of the petrels.
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- Audubon's shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri)
- Baillon's shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri bailloni, Puffinus bailloni)
- Balearic shearwater (Puffinus mauretanicus)
- Bannerman's shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri bannermani, Puffinus bannermani)
- Barolo shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri baroli, Puffinus baroli)
- black-vented shearwater (Puffinus opisthomelas)
- Boyd's shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri boydi, Puffinus boydi)
- Bryan's shearwater (Puffinus bryani)
- Buller's shearwater (Ardenna bulleri)
- Cape Verde shearwater (Calonectris edwardsii)
- Christmas shearwater (Puffinus nativatis)
- Cory's shearwater (Calonectris borealis)
- flesh-footed shearwater (Ardenna carneipes)
- fluttering shearwater (Puffinus gavia)
- Galápagos shearwater (Puffinus subalaris)
- great shearwater (Ardenna gravis, formerly Puffinus gravis)
- Hawaiian shearwater (Puffinus newelli)
- Heinroth's shearwater (Puffinus heinrothi)
- Hutton's shearwater (Puffinus huttoni)
- lava shearwater (†Puffinus olsoni)
- little shearwater (Puffinus assimilis)
- Macronesian shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri baroli or Puffinus baroli)
- Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus)
- Newell's shearwater (Puffinus newelli)
- Olson's shearwater (†Puffinus olsoni)
- Persian shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri persicus or Puffinus persicus)
- pink-footed shearwater (Ardenna creatopus)
- Scopoli's shearwater (Calonectris diomedea)
- short-tailed shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris)
- sooty shearwater (Ardenna grisea)
- streaked shearwater (Calonectris leucomelas)
- subantarctic shearwater (Puffinus elegans)
- Townsend's shearwater (Puffinus auriculatus)
- tropical shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri bailloni or Puffinus bailloni)
- wedge-tailed shearwater (Ardenna pacifica)
- Yelkouan shearwater (Puffinus yelkouan)
Translations[edit]
seabird
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References[edit]
shearwater on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Procellariidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies - Procellariidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
