: a bird (such as a gull or an albatross) frequenting the open ocean
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Bird monitors on the Farne Islands off the northeastern coast of England are tallying the roughly 200,000 seabirds that return to this important sanctuary every year.—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 May 2025 Little terns, a small seabird, travel hundreds or even thousands of miles across the ocean to land on the beaches of Australia to breed.—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 7 May 2025 The origin story of the island's name is a complicated mix of language, a history that dates back to the first Europeans to explore the coast of California, and, a flock of seabirds.—Scott Neuman, NPR, 7 May 2025 Great Auk The great auk, a flightless seabird that once populated the North Atlantic, faced a slow and tragic extinction due to human hunting, which was exacerbated by the demand for their feathers, skins and eggs.—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for seabird
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