1. A Manx shearwater colony has a particularly powerful stench.

2. Typical of young shearwaters, it was just a ball of grey down with a beak sticking out.

3. Suddenly a flock of all-dark shearwaters appeared, only the underwing showing a pale smudge.

4. A large flock of shearwaters was wheeling excitedly over a spot about half way between the whales and Hsu Fu.

5. By day, a colony of petrels or shearwaters is a quiet, apparently deserted place.

5. try its best to collect and build good sentences.

6. On Mexico's Natividad Island, the black-vented shearwater was at risk from the introduction of cats, goats and sheep, but its numbers are now recovering following an eradication programme.

7. Wedge-tailed Shearwater is brown and usually looks brown even at greater range.

8. For a fraction of a second Jane was off guard and the shearwater struck right in the palm of her hand.

9. I banked left, then right—more of a pigeon than a sooty shearwater but flying all the same.

10. Footage also showed mice devouring Atlantic petrel and great shearwater chicks.

11. One's ears are more attuned to sounds in the darker hours – the very occasional shriek of a shearwater, the other sounds with no known cause.

12. In the process, the arctic tern racks up about 44,000 frequent flier miles (71,000 kilometers)—edging out its archrival, the sooty shearwater, by roughly 4,000 miles (6,440 kilometers).

13. I was asked about the identification of Bulwer's Petrel vs. dark morph Wedge-tailed Shearwater whilst in Keelung, and can understand why.