scrabern.
/ˈskreɪbə/, U.S. /ˈskreɪbər/, Scottish English /ˈskrebər/ Scottish.
A name for the Black Guillemot, Uria Grylle, and the Manx Shearwater, Puffinus anglorum.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Alcidae (auks) > [noun] > cepphus grylle (black guillemot)
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Greenland-dove1678
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puffineta1705
Greenland turtle?1787
tinkershere1799
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the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Procellariidae (petrel) > member of genus Puffinus (shearwater) > puffinus anglorum (Manx shearwater)
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1698 M. Martin Late Voy. St. Kilda 58 The Scraber [the black Guillemot, Uria Grylle], so called in St. Kilda.
1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 138 The black Guillemot..The Scraber.
1852 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds V. 441 Puffinus Anglorum. The Manx Shearwater... Scrabe. Scraber.
1857 F. O. Morris Hist. Brit. Birds VI. 33 Black Guillemot. Common Scraber.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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