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Shearwater: A type of seabird often found near coastlines or bodies of water
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Shearwaters dive deep to grab their share.
Autopsies indicated the shearwaters had a high parasite count and were starving.
Shearwaters come to islands and coastal cliffs only to breed.
Their movements are closely watched by flocks of Cary shearwaters.
Shearwaters gorge themselves on the dying and the dead.
The island is home to the largest colony of shearwaters in the Mediterranean.
Shearwaters are all dark or dark above and white below.
Their movements are closely watched by flocks of Cory Shearwaters.
These shearwaters will spend most of their lives in the air.
Their movements are closely watchedby flocks of Cory Shearwaters.
Shearwaters are incredible birds.
From July to December Little shearwaters breed on the island.
Yelkouan shearwaters breed on islands and coastal cliffs in the eastern and central Mediterranean.
It comprises a group medium-sized shearwaters.
Every morning the shearwaters fly off to collect food for their young.
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And then there's scott shaffer and our shearwaters.
Five million shearwaters have flown almost ten thousand miles from Australia to get here.
Eventually the tuna move on, leaving the shearwaters to battle among themselves.
Some Manx shearwaters Puffinus puffinus do this same journey in reverse.
As the sea breeze picks up, the shearwaters take to the air once more.
The shearwaters breed only within the Cape Verde Islands.
Far from being mere bystanders, the shearwaters become underwater predators themselves.
Now the shearwaters can dive down on them, descending to twenty meters or more.
The wedge-tailed and little shearwaters also breed on the island.
Demographic information is essential to properly assess the trends of certain seabirds, particularly shearwaters.
Increase of shearwaters in the Mediterranean.
Satellite tracking was used to assess population movements and habitat use by wintering pink-footed shearwaters.
Thus, these small shearwaters form a cryptic species complex.
Working as a group, the dolphins drive the bait-ball upwards towards the waiting shearwaters.
Petrels, sooty shearwaters and gannets are also dying in large numbers.
Researchers do not know where Bryan 's shearwaters breed.
Far from being mere bystanders, the shearwaters can now become underwater predators themselves.
It has thousands of black-footed albatross, Laysan albatross as well as shearwaters and terns.
Small numbers of wedge-tailed shearwaters breed despite the presence of rats.
Lord Howe Island is a world heritage site… and home to migratory seabirds like the shearwaters.
Even though there are trees here, the shearwaters prefer to make their nests underground.
Here, sooty shearwaters have been nesting throughout the long summer and gorging themselves on fish.
St Francis is also the site of a breeding population of short-tailed shearwaters Puffinus tenuirostris.
Wedge-tailed shearwaters are monogamous, forming a pair bond that lasts for several years.
This is particularly so for the Procellariiformes, represented here by the Balearic and Yelkouan shearwaters.
But these shearwaters here in Japan have adopted a very labour-saving way.
This would ideally include a mix of Thalassarche and Diomedea albatrosses, Procellaria petrels and Puffinus shearwaters.
Historically, shearwaters were harvested for food and oil but are now protected in Victoria.
Traditionally, Puffinus has been grouped with the Procellaria and Calonectris shearwaters.
Each austral winter, the shearwaters migrate to the seas off the Aleutian Islands and Kamchatka.
Fine and 3D mapping of the movements of the Scopoli shearwaters in the Gulf of Lion.
The shearwaters follow the giants ' lead.
One of the many morning finds of Manx Shearwaters killed by the Greater Black-backed Gulls.
The shearwaters crowd the skies, following the dolphins ' every turn.
Yes, they are shearwaters.
