How to Use razorbill in a Sentence

razorbill

noun

• Murre and razorbill eggs from the island’s cliffs sit next to cookies in the cafe’s bakery case.
  — Cheryl Katz, Smithsonian, 17 Jan. 2017
• The story of how one of Britain’s biggest seabird colonies, once full of puffins, guillemots and razorbills, went silent this year due to climate change is a devastating read, via the Guardian.
  — Aubrey Nagle, Philly.com, 4 June 2018
• Those visitors who do come are likely to spot an abundance of wildlife, including dolphins, whales, seals, sheep herds numbering in the hundreds, razorbills, flocks of geese and more.
  — Shivani Vora, chicagotribune.com, 20 Aug. 2019
• Despite its appearance, the great auk is actually a relative of razorbills and puffins, not of penguins.
  — The Conversation/jessica Emma Thomas, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2019
• The Látrabjarg cliffs -- On the westernmost tip of Iceland is a 14-kilometer stretch of sea cliffs which are home to millions of birds including puffins, gannets, guillemots and razorbills.
  — Kate Springer, CNN, 8 Oct. 2017
• The islands are also protected habitats for Manx shearwaters, northern fulmar, black-legged kittiwake, razorbill, guillemot, peregrine falcon and storm petrel.
  — Julia Blakely, Smithsonian, 11 Jan. 2018
• But multiple international agencies have designated razorbills as worthy of conservation concern as well.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 24 June 2018

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