Meanings of razorbill in English

The birds, including razorbills and puffins, have been washed ashore on beaches across Wales.

Keep your eyes open for everything from brent geese to Arctic terns and razorbills.

There are two Razorbills in the Museum, one in summer and one in winter plumage.

The Razorbill is included in Professor Ansted's list, but only marked as occurring in Guernsey.

Circling squadrons of gulls and razorbills tracked the lobstermen and schooners across the chill waters.

Among razorbills, northern black-and-white seabirds that resemble puffins, males mount each other as a display of aggression.

Midsummer guillemots and razorbills were shepherding their newly fledged young on their first few days out at sea.

For homosexual mounting in razorbills, see Wagner (1996).

Male razorbills do not like being mounted; they never solicit it, nor do they cooperate if it happens.

Mr Kinsella explains how Mainstream's backers owe much to a bird charity that looks out for puffins, razorbills and kittiwakes.

We found nothing but puffins and razorbills nesting in the boathouse walls, and air heavy with the scent of rotting seaweed.

Of the rock-fowl, the puffins fly straight away to the Mediterranean, and the guillemots and razorbills go out to sea and leave their nesting crags.

Kittiwakes, guillemots and razorbills lend their voices to the cacophony, but the bird everyone comes to see is the puffin, with its impossibly colourful bill.