short-tailed shearwater

noun

1. See under mutton bird.

noun

1. any of several long-winged seabirds, often used as food, especially Puffinus tenuirostris (short-tailed shearwater) of Australia and Puffinus griseus (sooty shearwater), which breeds in the Southern Hemisphere and winters in the Northern Hemisphere.

noun

1. Australian a large Australian shearwater that migrates to the northern hemisphere in the southern winter