Manx shearwater

noun

a European oceanic bird, Puffinus puffinus, with long slender wings and black-and-white plumage: family Procellariidae (shearwaters)

The Manx Shearwater comes next in size, but it is a dark-plumaged bird on the upper parts, only white below.

St. Kildans say that the Manx Shearwater is one of their first bird visitors in spring, and amongst the last to leave in autumn.

Throughout the summer the Manx Shearwater is nocturnal, and at the approach of darkness becomes very garrulous.

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