noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a seabird/sea bird
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Sea birds are often the victims of oil spills.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Above the tangled knots of old fishing-nets, still supported by their floats, always hovered seabirds, waiting for a meal.
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All the other species of seabird seemed to have been driven away by the bad weather.
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Both are home to seabirds and seals and all manner of grasses and flowers.
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It was probably a young Black-Footed Albatross, said Rex consulting his reference guide to seabirds, and probably a young one.
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Most of its prey are ducks and seabirds, fish and carrion.
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Much the smallest and shortest-billed auk, also the smallest diving seabird .
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The 1986 oil spill killed 9, 000 seabirds along the coast between San Francisco and Big Sur.
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The local fishermen suffer, and so do the seabirds.