Four hundred Shearwaters are sometimes slain thus in a single night.
As the Fulmars bear a superficial resemblance to the Gulls, so may the Shearwaters be compared with the Auks.
Shearwaters delight in a rough sea and a brewing storm, every bit as much as the smaller Petrels; no weather seems too boisterous for them.
Unlike the Shearwaters and the more typical Petrels, this bird rarely makes a burrow big enough to hide itself, but is content to scratch out a hollow in the soil, or even to deposit its egg on ledges of the cliffs.
But the grand colony of Manx Shearwaters is perhaps of more general interest; the bird breeds in many other parts of our islands, although nowhere in such numbers as it does here.
The Shearwaters then leave their burrows in thousands, and the grassy island becomes a scene of activity, birds coming and going in the gloom, and their cries filling the air.
At the time of his study, Murphy did not have the shearwaters from Micronesia collected by Coultas and actually did not have a large series from these islands.
Land crabs andshearwaters were often found together in the same burrow.
This oceanic bird differs from other petrels and shearwaters of Micronesia by the presence of a white abdomen in contrast with dark plumage on upper parts, throat, and breast.
On the classification and phylogeny of the order Tubinares, particularly the shearwaters (Puffinus).
As to abundance, figures have been mentioned on the order of 50 million for shearwaters (Puffinus spp.
Over the Portlock Banks and in Stevenson Entrance, fulmars sometimes concentrate in very large numbers, either by themselves or in company with sooty shearwaters (Puffinus griseus).
Many have large populations, but are not as abundant as shearwaters or most alcids.
Lockley (1942) suggested that rabbits helped to open new breeding colonies of manx shearwaters (Puffinus puffinus) at Skomer and in west Wales in general.
The North Pacific basin is an important feeding ground of several shearwaters (Puffinus spp.
In winter, the alcids and larids appear to be the most abundant groups, the procellariids having been reduced by the departure of the slender-billed shearwaters for breeding grounds in the southern hemisphere.
After storms that divide the waters outside the bay into great toppling mountains, in the quiet strip between the kelp and the beaches, thousands of shearwaters may be seen sleeping in long, swaying, feathered pontoons, shoulder to shoulder.
This species is the most abundant of the shearwaters found off our coast.
This bird, having a length of but twelve inches, is the smallest of the Shearwaters found along our coasts.
These Shearwaters are entirely sooty gray, being somewhat lighter below.
The Fulmars are mostly northern birds while the majority of the Shearwaters nest in the extreme south during our winter, and appear off our coasts during the summer.
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