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Definition of Manx shearwater in English: Manx shearwaternoun A dark-backed shearwater (seabird) that nests on islands in the north-eastern Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Hawaiian waters. 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 shearwaternoun A dark-backed shearwater (seabird) that nests on islands in the northeastern Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Hawaiian waters. 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.
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