storm petrel
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With no terrestrial predators to steal their eggs, these islands are breeding sanctuaries for ground- and cliff-nesting seabirds like the western gull, Scripps’s murrelet and the ashy storm petrel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2023
The team also resighted a Leach's storm petrel banded there 31 years ago.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2022
The organization contends the nonnative, invasive mice, likely introduced by sailing vessels in the 19th century, are messing with the natural environment and threatening the ashy storm petrel, among other seabirds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2021
This year, the union split two — the Western scrub-jay and Leach’s storm petrel — into two and three different species, respectively.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2016
But no, it’s a storm petrel with its wide black wings, soft gray underbelly.
From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon
