razorbill

noun

ra·zor·bill ˈrā-zər-ˌbil

: a North Atlantic auk (Alca torda) with the plumage black above and white below and a compressed sharp-edged bill

called also razor-billed auk

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Birders on a boat trip off Tybee Island, Georgia, reported seeing 88 razorbills, Kratter said. —

Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2024 Birders on a boat trip off Tybee Island, South Carolina, reported seeing 88 razorbills, Kratter said. —

USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2024 Martha’s Vineyard: A bald eagle at the Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary, an out of season razorbill and a common raven in Aquinnah, and an Acadian flycatcher and a Northern parula at the Waskosim’s Rock Reservation. —

Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023 Race Point in Provincetown hosted hundreds of shearwaters including 2,000 great shearwaters, 800 Cory’s shearwaters, and 30 manx shearwaters, as well as a Pacific loon, a razorbill, a black tern, and an Arctic tern among large numbers of common and roseate terns. —

BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2022 See all Example Sentences for razorbill