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What is a sheathbill?

What is a sheathbill? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Either of two species of scavenging birds in the family Chionididae which breed only on the Antarctic Peninsula and subantarctic islands.
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Breeding in separated pairs, this snowy sheathbill has a large nest in a rocky crevice made of a variety of materials thrown up on the beach by the waves.
During lunch the local information came in, so we drove back to Cape Town harbor and had a search for the sheathbill from the port's main jetty.
Here I found two pairs of the sheathbill a bird whose place in the system has puzzled ornithologists.
It was true that there were extraordinary birds to be seen, not just penguins but oddities like the snowy sheathbill and the world's southernmost-breeding songbird, the South Georgia pipit.

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