How To Use Sea bird In A Sentence
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Fishing experts estimate that about 60,000 sea birds including about 2,000 giant petrels and around 10,000 albatrosses are killed this way every year.
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Geese alone number several terms: brant, ember (goose), gosling, goosander, gull (not the sea bird, which is from Welsh), and solan.
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A large, flightless sea bird (Pinguinus impennis) formerly common on northern Atlantic coasts but extinct since the middle of the 19th century.
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In spring and summer these become home to thousands of sea birds like guillemots, razorbills, puffins, fulmars and kittiwakes.
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All kinds of plastic packaging, metal cans, and other rubbish entangle and strangle sea turtles, sea birds, sea lions and fish.
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The three islets to the east are part of a national ornithological reserve; there are more sea birds here, including puffins and frigatebirds, than anywhere else in the Lesser Antilles.
Take Monday Off: Martinique
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You walk along a dramatically romantic coast through the flocks of sea birds and the fringe of dunes and eucalyptus forest.
Times, Sunday Times
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The island holds an important breeding population of grey seals and is also of ornithological interest for its colonies of breeding sea birds.
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The cycling route then leads you to a narrow path sandwiched between the turquoise, sun-drenched Atlantic Ocean and salt marshes homing rare sea birds.
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The Beck's petrel is a sea bird that may be nocturnal and is thought to breed in the Bismarck Archipelago, in an area of circular, mountainous islands.
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Persons who observe them, as they fly, call to mind how Æsacus, the son of Priam, was changed into a sea bird, called the didapper.
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` sandal '(cf. Latin calligula, ` soldier's boot'); German, from the Celtic gairm, a battle cry transmitted via the Latin Germanus; golf, from the Gaelic gowf ` blow with the hand '(an acceptable pronunciation for golf is "gof"); gull, from the Welsh gwylan or the Breton gwelan, ` sea bird'; havoc, from the Welsh hafog ` devastation '; hooligan,
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To be surrounded by dozens of squawking, hissing sea birds with 10 ft wingspans was one thing, but add to that a pod of 600 acrobatic dusky dolphins and you had a wildlife spectacle to rival anything on earth.
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The oil spill had a devastating effect on sea birds and other wildlife.
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It continued towards me, floating across the floor with the ease of a little white sea bird gliding over the surface of the waves.
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The commission says it is to stop the incidental by-catch of endangered species, marine mammals, sea turtles and sea birds.
Times, Sunday Times
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In some ways, there are breeds of gull and sea bird who are light years ahead of us on the long-term commitment front and don't seem to have the same issues that we do.
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Down here in the amniotic warmth of Scotland's only heated salt-water pool you can lie back, watch the sea birds soaring overhead and look deep into your own soul.
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The wildflowers will be out and so will the elk, deer, sea lions, seals, and sea birds.
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Above him, sea birds wheeled and called and although he couldn't see a beach, he could hear the gentle wash of waves on the shore.
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The Shetlands are famed for their colonies of sea birds.
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The bait can be dyed blue to put off sea birds.
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Four of the six larger patches have each a sand bank near the middle, which do not appear to have been lately covered by the tide; and they are now more or less frequented by sea birds, such as noddies, boobies, tropic, and man-of-war birds, gannets, and perhaps some others.
A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2
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All through the shimmering gulf we were accompanied by schools of dolphins, innumerable sea birds and many other manifestations of unfettered Nature at her best.
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The bait can be dyed blue to put off sea birds.
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The copious guano deposition from sea birds may play a role in maintaining the present assemblage of vascular plants on both islands.
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So in other words, concentrations of sea birds may start at the edge of one of these gyres.
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There are also dunes and the beach doubles as a local nature reserve with wildflowers and many sea birds, including gulls and waders.
Times, Sunday Times
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For photographing sea birds, Shetland is a paradise.
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The island is only a quarter of a square mile in size, but it is teeming with penguins and other sea birds.
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The 1,300 reindeer have depleted indigenous flora, while the rats are voracious predators of sea bird eggs and chicks.
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On average fully half of the animals caught on long lines can't be sold and are thrown away - manta rays, sea lions, sea birds.
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The so-called by-catch includes sharks, turtles and sea birds such as albatrosses.
Times, Sunday Times
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In spring and summer these become home to thousands of sea birds like guillemots, razorbills, puffins, fulmars and kittiwakes.
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The waters surrounding Pigeon Island offer great fishing for sea birds including gulls, terns and the brown booby.
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Above him, sea birds wheeled and called and although he couldn't see a beach, he could hear the gentle wash of waves on the shore.
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You walk along a dramatically romantic coast through the flocks of sea birds and the fringe of dunes and eucalyptus forest.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some 250,000 sea birds were killed and the local fishing industry was devastated.
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This bounty still lures millions of sea birds from rookeries across the Pacific Ocean.
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The three islets to the east are part of a national ornithological reserve; there are more sea birds here, including puffins and frigatebirds, than anywhere else in the Lesser Antilles.
Take Monday Off: Martinique
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A related species, the whiskered auklet, has a similar tangerine-like plumage odor, and other sea birds such as shearwaters and storm petrels have distinct musky odors.
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She first did some research work in Naples on certain marine worms that live in the kidneys of sea birds.
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The feather trade in great auks, eider, and other sea birds has been mentioned earlier.
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Above him, sea birds wheeled and called and although he couldn't see a beach, he could hear the gentle wash of waves on the shore.
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Around the rocky shores sea birds such as gulls, terns, cormorants, gannets and puffins nested in the cliffs and dunes.
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DAZED WITH SYMPHONIES, THE UNHAPPY SEA BIRD DIED OF DESPAIR.
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Tuataras are primarily nocturnal predators of arthropods, especially those associated with sea bird colonies, and tree wetas (giant New Zealand orthopterans).
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These seagulls can hardly be called sea birds any longer.
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As we skimmed across the lagoon, sniffing the sea air, there was nothing to see at first but the odd sea bird perched on a marker buoy.
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The new manures which have lately been so fashionable are of both kinds: guano is the dung of sea birds, which has been accumulating for ages on islands off the western coasts of Africa and South America; and nitrate of soda and Humphrey's compound are mineral substances which are very efficacious in promoting vegetation.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
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To be surrounded by dozens of squawking, hissing sea birds with 10 ft wingspans was one thing, but add to that a pod of 600 acrobatic dusky dolphins and you had a wildlife spectacle to rival anything on earth.
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Yet, such episodes have the potential to cause the most serious ecological risk (primarily for sea birds and mammals) and result in long-term environmental disturbances (mainly in coastal zones) and economic impact on coastal activities (especially on fisheries and mariculture).
Oil spill
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Watching thousands of these beaked, black-and-white sea birds as they convoy together and travel across blinding white landscapes might come across as a boring, repetitive sight.
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The waters surrounding Pigeon Island offer great fishing for sea birds including gulls, terns and the brown booby.
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The oil spill had a devastating effect on sea birds and other wildlife.
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Around the rocky shores sea birds such as gulls, terns, cormorants, gannets and puffins nested in the cliffs and dunes.
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There are also dunes and the beach doubles as a local nature reserve with wildflowers and many sea birds, including gulls and waders.
Times, Sunday Times
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Outside, the first sea birds screeched and offered their own tuneless, harsh version of a dawn chorus.
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The aim is provide a safer habitat for marine life, from whales and sea birds to rare turtles.
Times, Sunday Times
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They could now hear the ocean crashing outside the walls, and sea bird's loud squawks barely audible past the thickness of water and rock.
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Around the rocky shores sea birds such as gulls, terns, cormorants, gannets and puffins nested in the cliffs and dunes.
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As well as sustaining many sea birds, they are hoovered up by the ton for the animal feed industry and over-fishing is probably involved.
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These seagulls can hardly be called sea birds any longer.
Times, Sunday Times
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The tuatara, a nocturnal lizardlike reptile from New Zealand, shares a nest with the diurnal petrel, a sea bird.
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Clinically normal waterfowl and sea birds may introduce the virus into flocks.
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The waters surrounding Pigeon Island offer great fishing for sea birds including gulls, terns and the brown booby.
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On the way to lunch we checked the surf again, noted that the sea birds are on their way north from the Bolsa Chica refuge, and sang as much of the triduum "Lamentations" as we could remember.
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The bait can be dyed blue to put off sea birds.
Times, Sunday Times
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The erysipelas infection that killed the three kakapo was brought to the island by migratory sea birds, researchers said.
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The coastal region is home to sea birds and marine life that provide livelihoods for many people in the commercial fishing and tourist industries.
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Brian has concentrated on the ecological diversity of the region, with its rare flowers, walruses, Bowhead whales, bearded seals, Polar bears and sea birds.
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Although it is widely regarded as a coastal and sea bird, the cormorant can now be found in ever-increasing numbers at lakes and gravel pits in Britain.
