razorbill


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Synonyms for razorbill

black-and-white northern Atlantic auk having a compressed sharp-edged bill

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Razorbills exist in a similar environment to guillemots and eat the same things, while they also nest on our Northeast cliffs.
The most significant event was an unprecedented movement of Razorbills (a Puffin relative) in huge numbers far south of their normal range off the East Coast of North America.
The cliffs were buzzing with Razorbill, Guillemots and Kittiwakes while a few Puffin and Manx Shearwater were over the sea.
Penguin (Razorbill), 2011, pp257, 6.99 [pounds sterling]
Nonplussed experts are to pore over dietary data to find out what the razorbill could eat at such immense depths.
Razorbill, a Penguin imprint that is aimed at children aged 12 and over, has announced that it has appointed Ben Schrank as president and publisher of the company, effective 7 August.
The results of our study provide little support for Ydenberg's model of timing of nest departure in the Alcidae when applied to two intermediate species, the Thick-billed Murre and Razorbill. Contrary to prediction 1, departure mass and departure age did not correlate negatively in any experimental Thick-billed Murre or Razorbill sample, nor in any Thick-billed Murre observational sample.
I sometimes think that everything we esteem in this life, all that is good of the earth, is composed of promise, the promise embodied in all seeds--pine, chestnut, nannyberry, ash--in the kernels of barleys and oats, iris corms and crocus corms, all pips and spores, the promise established in the repeated waxings and wanings of the moon, in the constant return of the sun, the covenant recognized in all eggs--noddy, razorbill, squid and lumpfish, violet-tail damselfly, in the multiple jelly egg-nets of toad and frog--plus the promises made by those sacred figures and symbols we trust, the rainbow, the early promise of a messiah, the promise of salvation announced by Christ.
SANDOWN: 2.20 Golden Compass, 2.50 Nichols Canyon, 3.25 Montiridge, 4.00 Fulbright, 4.35 Razorbill, 5.05 Quality Pearl, 5.35 Sunnybridge Boy.
SPOTSWOOD, Jessica Born Wicked Razorbill, 2012 330pp $17.95 pbk ISBN 9780141342108 SCIS 1541165
NUMBERS DOWN A cormorant pictured by Kevin O'Hara HEAD WARDEN Farne Islands' David Steel with razorbill friend
Puffin (Razorbill), 2010, pp369, 9.99 [pounds sterling]