A dark-backed shearwater (seabird) that nests on islands in the north-eastern Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Hawaiian waters.
大西洋鹱
Puffinus puffinus, family Procellariidae
Example sentencesExamples
Faced with a mineral-deficient diet, red deer on the Scottish island of Rum resort to an unusual source of calcium: They munch chicks of a seabird known as the Manx shearwater.
Situated 16 miles off the west coast of northern Scotland, Rum has one of the world's largest colonies of Manx shearwaters.
It houses Manx shearwaters, herring and black-backed gulls, razorbills, stormy petrels and guillemots besides puffins.
It is claimed the rats are eating the eggs of the puffin and the Manx shearwater, despite a number of scientific studies suggesting otherwise.
The hatching success in the Manx shearwaters is strongly determined by the incidence of rainfall during the incubation period.
Definition of Manx shearwater in US English:
Manx shearwater
noun
A dark-backed shearwater (seabird) that nests on islands in the northeastern Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Hawaiian waters.
大西洋鹱
Puffinus puffinus, family Procellariidae
Example sentencesExamples
Situated 16 miles off the west coast of northern Scotland, Rum has one of the world's largest colonies of Manx shearwaters.
The hatching success in the Manx shearwaters is strongly determined by the incidence of rainfall during the incubation period.
Faced with a mineral-deficient diet, red deer on the Scottish island of Rum resort to an unusual source of calcium: They munch chicks of a seabird known as the Manx shearwater.
It houses Manx shearwaters, herring and black-backed gulls, razorbills, stormy petrels and guillemots besides puffins.
It is claimed the rats are eating the eggs of the puffin and the Manx shearwater, despite a number of scientific studies suggesting otherwise.