At first I would not eat a frigate bird, a booby or a shearwater, but after a few months on the island I tried one broiled over coconut-shell coals, and I have never since missed an opportunity for such a feast.
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Shearwater
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37 entriesAudubon's shearwaterBaillon's shearwaterBalearic shearwaterBannerman's shearwaterBarolo shearwaterBoyd's shearwaterBryan's shearwaterBuller's shearwaterCape Verde shearwaterChristmas shearwaterCory's shearwaterGalápagos shearwaterHawaiian shearwaterHeinroth's shearwaterHutton's shearwaterMacronesian shearwater
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29 translations across 25 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- αἴθυια noun (seabird)
Asturian
1 entries- pardiella noun (seabird)
Bulgarian
1 entries- буревестник noun (seabird)
Catalan
2 entries- baldriga noun (seabird)
- virot (Balears) noun (seabird)
Dutch
1 entries- pijlstormvogel noun (seabird)
Esperanto
1 entries- pufino noun (seabird)
Faroese
1 entries- skrápur noun (seabird)
Finnish
1 entries- liitäjä noun (seabird)
French
1 entries- puffin noun (seabird)
Galician
1 entries- pardela noun (seabird)
German
1 entries- Sturmtaucher noun (seabird)
Greenlandic
1 entries- qaqullunnaq noun (seabird)
Hungarian
1 entries- vészmadár noun (seabird)
Irish
1 entries- cánóg noun (seabird)
Japanese
2 entries- ミズナギドリ noun (seabird)
- 水薙鳥 noun (seabird)
Korean
1 entries- 슴새 noun (seabird)
Manx
1 entries- scraayl noun (seabird)
Norman
1 entries- gode noun (seabird)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- یل قوغان noun (seabird)
Polish
1 entries- burzyk noun (seabird)
Portuguese
2 entries- cagarra noun (seabird)
- pardela noun (seabird)
Spanish
1 entries- pardela noun (seabird)
Turkish
1 entries- yelkovan noun (seabird)
Ukrainian
1 entries- буревісник noun (seabird)
Welsh
2 entries- adar drycin noun (seabird)
- gwylan y graig noun (seabird)
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