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/sˈiːbɜːd/
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NOUN
- a bird that frequents coastal waters and the open ocean: gulls; pelicans; gannets; cormorants; albatrosses; petrels; etc.
How To Use seabird In A Sentence
- This species is also closely associated with colonies of various seabirds and marine mammals; it feeds among birds and seals and has been considered a commensal of those colonial animals.
- Some common shorebirds and seabirds in the Southern Arctic are the semi-palmated plover, northern phalarope, lapland longspur, parasitic jaeger, and semi-palmated plover.
- Litter poses a threat to dolphins, whales, turtles and seabirds by entanglement in and ingestion of plastics.
- Many shorebirds and seabirds are found here, including rhinoceros auklet, Brandt's cormorants, and all manner of gulls, puffins, petrels, murres, and more.
- We walk along the beige pebbly Uruguayan sand, on the other side of the equator from where we live, the squawking seabirds overhead, the beach empty of others as far as we can see. History of a Suicide
- Rat predation had reduced one of the largest breeding colonies of Xantus murrelets to just a few pairs, earning the seabird a potential spot on the federal Endangered Species List.
- The grassy slopes were grazed by apparently fearless and footsure sheep, and in parts the sheer cliffs were occupied by seabirds - fulmars, kittiwakes and auks.
- Yet its former inhabitants, much like the seabirds, are endangered. Times, Sunday Times
- The marbled murrelet, a bird about the size of a robin, is the only seabird to nest in old growth forest.
- Oil pollution is the commonest cause of death for seabirds.