How to Use shearwater in a Sentence

shearwater

noun

• Great shearwaters are large, white-and-grey seabirds known for their epic journeys.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 9 Sep. 2026
• Like nearly all seabirds, shearwaters are only on land to breed and raise young.
  — Stephen Leahy, National Geographic, 2 Aug. 2019
• The island is a nesting site for rare species of petrels, shearwaters and terns.
  — Evan Halper, latimes.com, 18 Sep. 2017
• Keep your eyes peeled for rare wildlife such as the Balearic shearwater and Lilford’s wall lizard.
  — Benjamin Kemper, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Feb. 2018
• And Shearwaters aren’t the only birds that use a sense of smell to navigate.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 30 Aug. 2017
• Newell’s shearwaters will navigate thousands of miles of open ocean back to Hawaii.
  — Nathan W. Cooper, The Conversation, 23 July 2026
• Some years 90 percent of shearwater fledglings were found to have at least one piece of plastic in their stomachs.
  — Stephen Leahy, National Geographic, 2 Aug. 2019
• Audubon’s shearwater, a seabird named for John James Audubon, also will get a new name.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 6 Nov. 2023
• In years past, shearwaters have been found beached in large numbers in other parts of the United States.
  — Joe Trezza, New York Times, 14 July 2017
• Seabirds that are strong flyers; gulls, shearwaters, petrels, and jaegers; will usually exit the storm first.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 22 Sep. 2017
• Some, such as the great shearwater, were in molt, a vulnerable period when birds shed and regrow feathers.
  — Dean Russell, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2021
• Cory's shearwaters are long-lived, rarely breeding successfully before age nine.
  — Jason G. Goldman, Scientific American, 1 May 2020
• Tropic birds, shearwaters, petrels, terns, boobies, and other birds of the open ocean roost and forage on sargassum mats.
  — David Doubilet, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• All those birds, incuding boobies, frigatebirds, noddies, shearwaters and terns, poop.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 12 July 2018
• The identification of plasticosis in shearwaters shows that there is no time to waste.
  — Matthew Savoca, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2023
• Great shearwaters are reliable indicators of an ecosystem’s health, who rely on small fish called sand lance in their diets.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 9 Sep. 2026
• Manx shearwaters have experienced an even more dramatic rebound than puffins.
  — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026
• Arctic terns stole the world record from the shearwater after researchers finally created a tracking device that was light enough to use on them.
  — Discover Magazine, 4 May 2011
• And amid a tornado of shearwaters, murres, gulls and pelicans, all working on the hapless baitfish pushed to the surface by the salmon.
  — Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 4 Aug. 2023
• By studying great shearwaters and their health, researchers can better understand what is happening in the local ecosystem as a whole.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 9 Sep. 2026
• Uesaka says that the footage comes from foraging trips in which the shearwaters form large flocks, with some birds resting on the surface while others fly—and poop—overhead.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2025
• This is impressive on an island that, until 50 years ago, relied upon the greasy-gray Balearic shearwater seabird for protein.
  — Maya Boyd, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Aug. 2022
• As a result, boobies, shearwaters, petrels, and other seabirds have recovered, and island creatures from lizards to stick insects have reclaimed their homes.
  — Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 19 Sep. 2024
• Forktail storm petrels, fulmars, shearwaters, kittiwakes, auklets and puffins also died.
  — Dan Joling, The Seattle Times, 16 Apr. 2019
• Two nights are spent on Stewart, whose rain forests and coastal areas harbor a wealth of birds, including albatrosses, shearwaters and several species of penguins.
  — Phil Marty, chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2018
• Officials recorded deaths of forktail storm petrels, fulmars, shearwaters, kittiwakes, auklets and puffins.
  — Dan Joling, The Seattle Times, 11 Aug. 2018
• The researchers behind today’s paper dissected 85 northern fulmars and Cory’s shearwaters caught in the wild.
  — WIRED, 27 Mar. 2023
• Dolby six-channel surround sound blasts from two 4-foot-high Shearwater main speakers, a floor subwoofer, center-channel speaker, and rear speakers built into the ceiling.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2002
• Researchers have now deployed tags on Phil, Franklin, Hoagie, and Liberty, four great shearwaters with very Philly-appropriate names.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 9 Sep. 2026
• But if flocking birds were easily confused in low visibility, which is pretty normal up and down coastal California, then shearwater invasions would be as common as passing rain.
  — Tom McNamara, Popular Science, 3 Dec. 2020