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Shearing

Tipping from one side to the other in gliding flight, so that when flying over water first one wing tip, then the other, appears almost to touch the surface. This habit has given shearwaters (family Procellariidae) their name.

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From Peter Weaver's Birdwatcher's Dictionary
Copyright © 1981 by Peter Weaver


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