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His finds are usually limited to the jaw of an oystercatcher or the head of a herring gull sliced from its tar-covered body with the penknife given to him by his employer last Bird-Fall Day.
Sus hallazgos se suelen limitar a la mandíbula de un ostrero o a la cabeza de una gaviota argéntea separada de un cuerpo cubierto de brea con la navaja que le dio su patrón el último día de la Caída del Pájaro.
Do you know how many oystercatchers there still are in the British Isles?
¿Sabe usted cuántos ostreros quedan en las Islas Británicas?
Many of them had been designated as bird refuges for gulls, auklets, oystercatchers, and cormorants.
Muchos de ellos hacían las veces de refugio para gaviotas, mérgulos, ostreros y cormoranes.
Lively oystercatchers were scurrying about at the waters edge, pecking away with their red beaks.
Unos cuantos ostreros correteaban ansiosos por la orilla picoteando con sus rojos picos.
The red-beaked oystercatchers nesting on the steep rocks and reefs of Hindarsfjall squealed shrilly, and yellow-headed gannets screeched hoarsely and gaggled.
Los ostreros de rojos picos que anidaban en los abruptos acantilados y fiordos de Hindarsfjall chillaban agudamente, chirriaban y graznaban roncos los alcatraces de amarilla cabeza.
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