: a bird (such as a gull or an albatross) frequenting the open ocean
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Audubon’s shearwater, a seabird named for John James Audubon, also will get a new name.
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Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 6 Nov. 2023
Tiny but bountiful, Antarctic krill make up one of the planet’s largest biomasses, nourishing everything from fish to marine mammals and seabirds.
—Joshua Goodman, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
The news follows recent research that showed some seabirds in the UK—where the outbreak was first reported—are starting to show immunity to H5N1.
—WIRED, 28 Oct. 2023
The pioneers are the seabirds, whose fishy guano provides a nutritive anchor for air and seaborne seeds.
—Amy Brady, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
Researchers documented 851 separate conservation events targeting 138 seabird species spanning 551 locations.
—Angela Wang, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2023
In addition, every year, across the industry, dozens of seabirds collide with the trawlers’ metal cables, sometimes suffering deadly injuries.
—Joshua Goodman, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
At the time, no one had ever successfully re-established a population of seabirds by moving chicks from an existing colony to a new island, per Audubon.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
Its appearance from 2013-2016 was blamed for the death of 1 million seabirds and had other environmental effects, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
—oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2023
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Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 6 Nov. 2023
Tiny but bountiful, Antarctic krill make up one of the planet’s largest biomasses, nourishing everything from fish to marine mammals and seabirds.
—Joshua Goodman, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
The news follows recent research that showed some seabirds in the UK—where the outbreak was first reported—are starting to show immunity to H5N1.
—WIRED, 28 Oct. 2023
The pioneers are the seabirds, whose fishy guano provides a nutritive anchor for air and seaborne seeds.
—Amy Brady, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
Researchers documented 851 separate conservation events targeting 138 seabird species spanning 551 locations.
—Angela Wang, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2023
In addition, every year, across the industry, dozens of seabirds collide with the trawlers’ metal cables, sometimes suffering deadly injuries.
—Joshua Goodman, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
At the time, no one had ever successfully re-established a population of seabirds by moving chicks from an existing colony to a new island, per Audubon.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
Its appearance from 2013-2016 was blamed for the death of 1 million seabirds and had other environmental effects, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
—oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2023
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First Known Use
1564, in the meaning defined above
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seabird
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sea·bird
ˈsē-ˌbərd 
: a bird (as a gull or an albatross) that lives on or near the open ocean
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