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greater shearwater

noun

  1. a sooty-brown and white shearwater, Puffinus gravis, of eastern coasts of the Western Hemisphere.


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Come nightfall in late summer or early fall, on the northerly side of the island you can hear the cries of thousands in a fascinating feathered colony of greater shearwater birds, known as berte maggiore in Italian.

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He also saw a juvenile sooty tern and a greater shearwater.

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“You would never see a greater shearwater that close to land,†he said.

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This species, whose breeding habits are little known, is similar in size and color to the Greater Shearwater, differing chiefly in the yellowish bill and pinkish colored feet.

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