storm petrel
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The team also resighted a Leach's storm petrel banded there 31 years ago.
From Salon • Jan. 7, 2022
Hundreds of threatened species have benefited worldwide from invasive mammal removal, Kurle said, including six birds common on the Farallon Islands — among them the storm petrel, the tufted puffin and the Brandt’s cormorant.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2021
When the mice population drops, as it does seasonally, the owls then eat the eggs of the ashy storm petrel, a bird some consider a future candidate for the endangered species list.
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
