petrel

→ French: pétrel
→ Italian: petrello

→ Spanish: petrel
→ Catalan: petrell

From earlier pitteral. Perhaps a diminutive of Peter, with reference to St. Peter's walking on the water (Matthew 14:29).
A derivation from patter or pitter-patter has been suggested, for instance by ornithologist Elliott Ladd Coues.

The seventh of May following, we first saw many Birds in bignesse of Cliffe Pidgeons, and after divers other as Pettrels, Cootes, Hagbuts, Pengwins, Murres, Gannets, Cormorants, Guls, with many else in our English Tongue of no name.

1625, Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes, The Relation of Captaine GOSNOLS Voyage to the North part of Virginia, begunne the sixe and twentieth of March, Anno 42. ELIZABETHAE Reginae 1602. and delivered by GABRIEL ARCHER, a Gentleman in the said Voyage:

In a storm they will hover close under the ship's stern in the wake of the ship (as it is called) or the smoothness which the ship's passing has made on the sea; and there as they fly (gently then) they pat the water alternately with their feet as if they walked upon it; though still upon the wing. And from hence the seamen give them the name of petrels in allusion to St. Peter's walking upon the Lake of Gennesareth.

1703, William Dampier, chapter III, in A Voyage to New Holland, etc. in the Year 1699:

Any of various species of black, grey, or white seabirds in the order Procellariiformes.


witch

The noun is from Middle English wicche, from Old English wiċċe (“witch (female), sorceress”) and wiċċa (“witch (male), sorcerer, warlock”), deverbative from wiċċian (“to practice sorcery”), from Proto-Germanic *wikkōną (compare West Frisian wikje, wikke (“to foretell, warn”), German Low German wicken (“to soothsay”), Dutch wikken, wichelen (“to dowse, divine”)), from Proto-Indo-European *wik-néh₂-, derivation of *weyk- (“to consecrate; separate”); akin to Latin victima (“sacrificial victim”), Lithuanian viẽkas (“life-force”), Sanskrit विनक्ति (vinákti, “to set apart, separate out”). Possibly related to wicked; see that entry for more.
The verb is from the noun.

cog

One given to mischief, especially a woman or child.

(geometry) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.

Glyptocephalus cynoglossus (Torbay sole), found in the North Atlantic.

Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis (megrim), found in the North Atlantic.


lire

From Middle English lire, lyre, from Old English līra (“any fleshy part of the body, muscle, calf of the leg”), from Proto-Germanic *ligwizô, *lihwizô (“thigh, groin”), from Proto-Indo-European *lekʷs-, *lewks- (“groin”). Cognate with Dutch lies (“groin”), Swedish lår (“thigh”).

inh

(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Flesh, brawn, or muscle; the fleshy part of a person or animal in contradistinction to the bone and skin.

(UK dialectal, Scotland) The fleshy part of a roast capon, etc. as distinguished from a limb or joint.


lire

From Middle English lire, lyre, from Old Norse hlýr (“cheeks”, plural). Compare Middle English lere, from Old English hlēor (“cheek, countenance, complexion”). More at leer.

cog

(UK dialectal, Scotland) Face; appearance of the face or skin; complexion; hue.


lire

From Old Norse líri. Cognate with Norwegian lira.

(UK dialectal, Scotland, Orkney, Shetland, ornithology) The Manx shearwater (bird).


glutton

From Middle English glotoun, from Old French gloton, gluton, from Latin gluttō, gluttōnis (“glutton”).
The use for the wolverine is a semantic loan from German Vielfraß, itself a folk etymology for Old Norse *fjallfress (literally “mountain cat”). The popular belief that the wolverine is particularly voracious only developed because of this name. See the German for more.


prion

From Prion (former genus name), from Ancient Greek πρίων (príōn, “saw”).


wandering albatross

en-noun

wandering albatross (plural wandering albatrosses)

‘Well, there are lots of different subspecies of them, but the wandering albatross sort of looks like a bigger, more aristocratic seagull, with webbed feet and giant gliding wings. They partner for life and can live up to fifty years. They fly enormous distances to get the right food for their young.’

2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 228:

Diomedea exulans
Diomedea exulans#Translingual

A large seabird, Diomedea exulans, with a very large wingspread.


puffin

From Middle English poffin, poffoun, puffon, equivalent to puff + -ing, or perhaps ultimately from Middle Cornish (compare Breton poc'han (“puffin”)).

Naturally the Chickies and the Gooverooskies and the Epatkas—the Burgomaster Gulls and the Kittiwakes and the Puffins, who are always looking for a chance to be rude—took up the cry, and—so Limmershin told me—for nearly five minutes you could not have heard a gun fired on Walrus Islet.

1894 May, Rudyard Kipling, “The White Seal”, in The Jungle Book, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published June 1894, →OCLC, page 110:

Fratercula arctica
Fratercula arctica#Translingual

The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) or (by extension) any of the other various small seabirds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda that are black and white with a brightly-coloured beak.


hag

From Middle English hagge, hegge (“demon, old woman”), shortening of Old English hægtesse, hægtes (“harpy, witch”), from Proto-West Germanic *hagatussjā. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Häkse (“witch”), Dutch heks, German Hexe (“witch”). Doublet of hex.

A hagfish; one of various eel-like fish of the family Myxinidae, allied to the lamprey, with a suctorial mouth, labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings.

A hagdon or shearwater; one of various sea birds of the genus Puffinus.


hag

From Middle English hag (denoting a gap in a cliff), from Old Norse hǫgg (“cut, gap, breach”), derivative of hǫggva (“to hack, hew”). Compare English hew, Old Swedish hug (“blow, stroke”).

This said, he led me over hoults and hags; / Through thorns and bushes scant my legs I drew

1845, Edward Fairfax (tr.), Godfrey of Bulloigne; or, The Recovery of Jerusalem: Done into English Heroical Verse, page 168:

(Northern England) A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.


nelly

Macronectes giganteus
Macronectes giganteus#Translingual

Macronectes halli
Macronectes halli#Translingual

A giant petrel, Macronectes giganteus and Macronectes halli.


albatross

albatross (plural albatross or albatrosses)

Uncertain. Probably from Spanish or Portuguese alcatraz (“pelican, gannet, albatross”), probably derived from Arabic الْغَطَّاس (al-ḡaṭṭās, “the diver”) (compare Alcatraz); or from Portuguese alcatruz (“water wheel bucket”), from Arabic الْقَادُوس (al-qādūs), from Ancient Greek κάδος (kádos, “pail, jar”), in reference to the pouch of a pelican. In either case, altered under the influence of Latin albus (“white”). Not derived from modern Arabic قَطْرَس (qaṭras, “albatross”), which is perhaps borrowed from Spanish.
For sense development of "burden", see albatross around one’s neck.

der

Albatross (disambiguation)
albatross (metaphor)

Any of various large seabirds of the family Diomedeidae ranging widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific and having a hooked beak and long narrow wings.


stinker

Today's crossword is a stinker.

I number several authors among my acquaintance […] and they invariably become all of a doodah when they read a stinker in the press about their latest effort.

1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter V, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

I sat there seething with fury. And after I had seethed for a bit I rose from my chair, took pen in hand and wrote Bobbie a stinker. […] I accused her in set terms of giving me the heave-ho in order that she could mercenarily marry a richer man. I called her a carrot-topped Jezebel whom I was thankful to have got out of my hair. I... Oh, I can't remember what else I said but, as I say, it was a stinker.

1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter X, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

(slang) Something difficult (e.g. a given puzzle) or unpleasant (e.g. negative review, nasty letter).

Any of several species of large Antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odour, such as the giant fulmar.

western grey kangaroo
western grey kangaroo

(Australia, informal) A western grey kangaroo.


titi

A New World monkey of the genus Callicebus, native to South America, distinguished by their long soft fur.


titi

A tree of the southern United States (Cliftonia monophylla) having glossy leaves and racemes of fragrant white flowers succeeded by one-seeded drupes.


shearwater

Macronesian shearwater

Puffinus lherminieri baroli or Puffinus baroli

Persian shearwater

Puffinus lherminieri persicus or Puffinus persicus

tropical shearwater

Puffinus lherminieri bailloni or Puffinus bailloni

At first I would not eat a frigate bird, a booby or a shearwater, but after a few months on the island I tried one broiled over coconut-shell coals, and I have never since missed an opportunity for such a feast.

1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 53:

Any of the long-winged pelagic seabirds of the family Procellariidae in genera Puffinus, Ardenna, and Calonectris, that breed on islands and coastal cliffs.

(by extension) Any of the entire family Procellariidae, including certain of the petrels.


fulmar

From Old Norse fúll (“foul”) + már (“gull”) (cognate to English mew), evidently in reference to the foul-smelling vomit it ejects to deter predators.

In the southern districts, the Inuit hunted fulmars with bird darts from kayaks (Helms 1926). The Nipisat people may have hunted fulmar and great shearwater, probably using similar methods.

2004, Anne Birgitte Gotfredsen, Tinna Møbjerg, Nipisat - A Saqqaq Culture Site in Sisimiut, Central West Greenland, page 104:

In particular, fulmars have the distinctive trait of vomiting half-digested fish oil when approached on the nest and should be given a wide berth wherever possible.

2009, Gary Latter, “Scottish Rock”, in North, volume 2, page 383:

And why oh why is it always bloody fulmars following us about? Have they got nothing better to do, these silly lickspittle fulmars, than to ape every petty twist and turn of our hollow peregrinations? I'm sick of fulmars.

2010, Roger D. Taylor, Mingming & the Art of Minimal Ocean Sailing, page 290:

Fulmarus glacialis
Fulmarus glacialis#Translingual

Either of two species of pelagic seabird in the genus Fulmarus, Fulmarus glacialis and F. glacialoides, which breed on cliffs.


taiko

The taiko, a gadfly petrel from the Chatham Islands near to New Zealand, was well known to islanders during the nineteenth century, being used by them as a food resource.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 61:

Chatham Island taiko
Chatham Island taiko

Pterodroma magentae
Pterodroma magentae#Translingual

The Chatham Island taiko (Pterodroma magentae).


gooney

Phoebastria immutabilis
Phoebastria immutabilis#Translingual

Any of several albatrosses, especially the black-footed albatross (Diomedea nigripes) and the Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis), that dwell primarily on islands in the Pacific Ocean, often near naval bases.


wanderer

From Middle English wanderere, wandrere, wanderare, equivalent to wander + -er. Cognate with Scots wanderer, wandirer (“wanderer”), Dutch wandelaar (“walker, hiker”), German Wanderer (“wanderer”), Danish vandrer (“wanderer”), Swedish vandrare (“wanderer”), Norwegian vandrer (“wanderer”).

(colloquial) The wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans.


Wilson's storm petrel

en-noun

Wilson's storm petrel (plural Wilson's storm petrels)

The name commemorates the Scottish-American ornithologist Alexander Wilson.

South Shetland Islands
South Shetland Islands

A small seabird of the storm petrel family Hydrobatidae, breeding on the Antarctic coastlines and nearby islands such as the South Shetland Islands.

Kéyah Yistinídę́ę́ʼ níyol yiiʼ naatʼaʼígíí


snow petrel

A small, pure white fulmarine petrel with black underdown, coal-black eyes, small black bill and bluish gray feet.


storm petrel

Nólsoy is home to one of the largest breeding colonies of storm petrels on earth.

2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 127:

Any of several small seabirds, of the families Hydrobatidae (northern storm petrels) or Oceanitidae (southern storm petrels or Austral storm petrels), having dark plumage and a white rump.


goonie

Phoebastria nigripes
Phoebastria nigripes#Translingual

Any of several albatrosses, especially the black-footed albatross (Phoebastria nigripes) and the Laysan albatross, that dwell primarily on islands in the Pacific Ocean, often near naval bases.


pintado

pintado (countable and uncountable, plural pintados or pintadoes)

From Portuguese pintado (literally “painted”).

bor

We now bore away SSE, SE & SEBS as the ice trended, keeping close by the edge of it, where we saw many penguins and whales and many of the ice birds, small grey birds and pintadoes.

1772, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 14 December

Daption capense
Daption capense#Translingual


diving petrel

Any seabird of the family Pelecanoididae in the order Procellariiformes, resembling auks and native to the southern oceans.


stormy petrel

One who brings trouble or whose appearance is a sign of coming trouble.


Mother Carey's chicken

en-noun

Mother Carey's chicken (plural Mother Carey's chickens)

A few blue petrels, black sheer-waters and Mather Caries chickens are all the birds we see.

1773, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 27 December

Kemp watched sperm whales and green turtles and hundreds of gulls and petrels – known as “Mother Carey's chickens” – that flew around the ship with piercing screams.

2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 36


diablotin

Pterodroma hasitata
Pterodroma hasitata#Translingual

The black-capped petrel, Pterodroma hasitata, of Caribbean waters.


cahow

The cahow was known to colonists in Bermuda during the early part of the seventeenth century, and these people relied on it quite heavily for food.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 60:

Pterodroma cahow
Pterodroma cahow#Translingual

An endangered nocturnal burrowing bird (Pterodroma cahow), from Bermuda.


mollymawk

Said to be from Dutch mallemok (“foolish gull”), from malle (“foolish”).

black-browed mollymawk (Thalassarche melanophris

Any of the similar, related sooty albatrosses (Phoebetria spp.).


Manx shearwater

Manx shearwater (plural Manx shearwaters)

Manx shearwaters lounge on the sheeny swell before pattering along and coasting away on stiff, elongated wings. Keep your eyes peeled for a chocolate- and-oatcakecoloured version of the Manxie.

2006, James Lowen, A Summer of British Wildlife, page 141:

Together with its neighbouring island Skokholm, Skomer is home to the highest concentration of Manx shearwaters in the world.

2018 June 20, Louise Tickle, The Guardian:

Puffinus puffinus
Puffinus puffinus#Translingual

A long-winged pelagic seabird, Puffinus puffinus, of the family Procellariidae.


stinkpot

A southern giant petrel (Macronectes giganteus).


mutton bird

He dubbed them mutton-birds, for they came like lambs to the slaughter.

1941, Ernestine Hill, My Love Must Wait, A&R Classics, published 2013, page 186:

Mutton Bird (Puffinus tenuirostris) Ornithosis
Early in 1953 Dr. D. L. Serventy sent us twelve mutton birds from the Bass Strait Islands for another investigation. One of these birds died shortly after reaching Adelaide.

1959, Monographiae Biologicae, volume 8, page 422:

The oil he sprayed on his customers was derived from the oil glands of mutton birds hunted in the islands of the Bass Strait by the descendants of nineteenth-century sailors and the Tasmanian Aboriginal women they had kidnapped.

1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 17:

Thousands of small birds, Tasmania′s entire population of mutton birds, take flight at the crack of dawn, headed toward Antarctica.

2000, Donna Eden, David Feinstein, Brooks Garten, Caroline Myss, Energy Medicine, page 260:

Puffinus griseus
Puffinus griseus#Translingual

Puffinus tenuirostris
Puffinus tenuirostris#Translingual

(chiefly Australia, New Zealand) Any of various seabirds whose flesh is said to taste like mutton when cooked, especially Puffinus griseus, Puffinus tenuirostris, or a petrel of the genus Pterodroma.


guga

It is well known that young gannets or gugas are not only highly edible but their fat has remarkable curative properties.

(Scotland) solan goose or northern gannet


Kermadec petrel

Kermadec petrel (plural Kermadec petrels)

Pterodroma neglecta
Pterodroma neglecta#Translingual

Pterodroma neglecta, a petrel of the Kermadec Islands.


hackbolt

Ardenna gravis
Ardenna gravis#Translingual

(archaic, Scilly Isles) A greater shearwater or hagdon (Ardenna gravis).


icebird

(archaic) An Arctic sea bird, such as the Arctic fulmar.


hagdon

Unknown. Compare later haglet (“shearwater, petrel”). Attested (as hagden) from the 17th century.

(regional, now rare) One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus, especially, Ardenna gravis (syn. Puffinus gravis, Puffinus major), the great shearwater, and Puffinus stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater.


procellarian

(zoology) Any of a family of oceanic birds (Procellaridae) including the petrels, fulmars, and shearwaters.


mollemoke

Borrowed from Swedish mallemucke (“the stormy petrel”).

bor

Ivory gulls and mollemokes were seen farther on. They did not lose sight of the birds after this, as far as they went. The ivory gulls flew very high, but the mollemokes alit, and fed on the water, flying over it well out to sea, as we had seen them do in Baffin Bay.

1877, Daid Murray Smith, Arctic Expeditions from British and Foreign Shores:

Any of several species of large pelagic petrels and fulmars, such as Fulmarus glacialis of the North Atlantic and several species of Pterodroma of the Southern Ocean.


diomedeid

(zoology) Any member of the Diomedeidae (the family of albatrosses).


hydrobatid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Hydrobatidae; a storm petrel.


oceanitid

(zoology) Any member of the family Oceanitidae of southern storm petrels or Austral storm petrels.


pelecanoidid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Pelecanoididae; a diving petrel.


procellariid

(zoology) Any seabird in the family Procellariidae, such as fulmars, petrels, prions and shearwaters.


tubenose

A small, thin fish of Japanese and Korean coastal waters, Aulichthys japonicus


Barau's petrel

From Barau (“a surname”) + petrel, after French agricultural engineer and ornithologist Armand Barau.

Our continued searching was rewarded, however, by excellent views of two Barau's Petrels one at each end of the day.

In 1992–93 poachers shot dozens, possibly hundreds, of Barau's Petrels as they flew inland at dusk near Saint-Pierre.

2009, Anthony Cheke, Julian P. Hume, Lost Land of the Dodo, unnumbered page:

Feral cats living near colonies preyed mostly on Barau's Petrels, killing >900 birds annually (58% adults, 42% fledglings) in 2 studied colonies (Faulquier et al. 2009); such predation, particularly of adults, is not sustainable in a normally long-lived species, and could lead to extinction within 100 years (Russell et al. 2009).

2013, Roger Safford, Frank Hawkins, The Birds of Africa, volume VIII, The Malagasy Region, page 141:

Pterodroma baraui
Pterodroma baraui#Translingual

A medium-sized gadfly petrel, Pterodroma baraui.


Mother Carey's goose

en-noun

Mother Carey's goose (plural Mother Carey's geese)


whalebird

From whale + bird, because they have been known to follow whaling vessels to feed on the blubber and floating oil.


Cape petrel

Daption capense, a common seabird of the Southern Ocean from the family Procellariidae.


procellariiform

For example, procellariiform species initially use olfaction to detect a prey’s location and then use vision for prey capture [21, 22 ].

2015 July 16, “Stop and Smell the Pollen: The Role of Olfaction and Vision of the Oriental Honey Buzzard in Identifying Food”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Any seabird of the order Procellariiformes


northern fulmar

northern fulmar (plural northern fulmars)

náhookǫs biyaadę́ę́ʼ níyol yiiʼ naalkʼįhii


Guadalupe storm petrel

Guadalupe storm petrel (plural Guadalupe storm petrels)

The species featured here as extinct is the Guadalupe storm petrel (Oceanodroma macrodactyla), which was lost during the early years of the twentieth century.

An extinct species of storm petrel, Oceanodroma macrodactyla.


great albatross

great albatross (plural great albatrosses)

/ɡɹeɪt ˈæl.bəˌtɹɒs/

A seabird in the genus Diomedea in the albatross family.


break-bones

From break + bones, calque of Spanish quebrantahuesos.

These southern seas are frequented by several species of Petrels: the largest kind, Procellaria gigantea, or nelly (quebrantahuesos, or break-bones, of the Spaniards), is a common bird, both in the inland channels and on the open sea. In its habits and manner of flight, there is a very close resemblance with the albatross; and as with the albatross, a person may watch it for hours together without seeing on what it feeds. The "break-bones" is, however, a rapacious bird, for it was observed by some of the officers at Port St. Antonio chasing a diver, which tried to escape by diving and flying, but was continually struck down, and at last killed by a blow on its head.

1839, Charles Darwin, chapter 13, in The Voyage of the Beagle, volume 29, New York: P. F. Collier & Son, published 1909:

Whilst we were at work on the beach, crowds of birds began to assemble, especially the Giant Petrel or "Breakbones" (Ossifraga gigantea), the "Nelly" or "Stinker" of sealers. This bird in its habits is most remarkably like the vulture.

1879, Henry Mottidge Moseley, “Kerguelen's Land”, in Notes by a Naturalist on the Challenger, Cambridge University Press, published 2014, →ISBN, pages 205–206:

The titlark, sheath-bill, teal, and goose of South Georgia are wholly or in part vegetable feeders. The cormorant and the tern eat fish. The gull subsists chiefly on limpets and other shell-bearing mollusks. The penguins and Tubinares capture cuttlefish and pelagic crustaceans, the giant petrel, or "breakbones," alone obtaining part of its food on shore, since it has a relish for carrion. The skua feeds on any kind of animal food, dead or alive, especially upon other birds and their eggs.

1922 April 20, Robert Cushman Murphy, “South Georgia, An Outpost of the Antarctic”, in National Geographic, volume 41, number 4, page 429:

Any bird in the genus Macronectes, known as giant petrels.


storm-bird

That noise, that awful clamour of uncouthness inexpressible, is the love-call of the storm bird!

1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 205:

channel-billed cuckoo
channel-billed cuckoo


Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross

Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross (plural Atlantic yellow-nosed albatrosses)

Atlantic yellow-nosed albatrosses (plural)

Thalassarche chlororhynchos is a large seabird in the albatross family.


black-browed albatross

black-browed albatross (plural black-browed albatrosses)

Thalassarche melanophris
Thalassarche melanophris#Translingual

Thalassarche melanophris, a large seabird in the albatross family.


Cory's shearwater

Cory's shearwater (plural Cory's shearwaters)

Named after Charles B. Cory (1857–1921), American ornithologist.

Calonectris borealis, a large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae.


black-browed mollymawk

black-browed mollymawk (plural black-browed mollymawks)

black-browed albatross
black-browed albatross

black-browed albatross (Thalassarche melanophris)


Cook's petrel

Pterodroma cookii
Pterodroma cookii#Translingual


Laysan albatross

Laysan albatross (plural Laysan albatrosses)

Phoebastria immutabilis, a large seabird of the North Pacific, mostly found in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.


black-capped petrel

black-capped petrel (plural black-capped petrels)

A species of petrel, Pterodroma hasitata, of Caribbean waters.


Antarctic petrel

Antarctic petrel (plural Antarctic petrels)

Saw a great number of penguins on an ice island and some Antartick petrels flying about.

1773, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 15 December

Thalassoica antarctica
Thalassoica antarctica#Translingual

A species of petrel, Thalassoica antarctica, which breeds in Antarctica.


moonbird

From moon + bird, apparently because the birds return to nesting sites after nightfall.

He survived for several months upon the moonbirds’ fatty mutton-like meat & the solace provided by the one book washed up with him […].

2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 167:


Balearic shearwater

Balearic shearwater (plural Balearic shearwaters)

Puffinus mauretanicus
Puffinus mauretanicus#Translingual

A medium-sized shearwater (Puffinus mauretanicus) in the seabird family Procellariidae.


sooty albatross

sooty albatross (plural sooty albatrosses)

Phoebetria fusca
Phoebetria fusca#Translingual

A medium-sized marine bird of the species Phoebetria fusca, having a sooty brown or black color.


giant petrel

Any of the genus Macronectes of large predatory and scavenging birds.


Pincoya storm petrel

Pincoya storm petrel (plural Pincoya storm petrels)

From Pincoya + storm petrel, calque of translingual Oceanites pincoyae.

calque

Oceanites pincoyae, a species of storm petrel native to a small coastal region of Chile.


Tahiti petrel

Tahiti + petrel, so called because they are numerous on the island of Tahiti.

The Tahiti petrel is the largest of the four Pseudobulweria petrels, the others being Beck's, Fiji and Mascarene petrel.

(Can we date this quote?), “Tahiti petrel”, in Colin Miskelly, editor, New Zealand Birds Online: The digital encyclopaedia of New Zealand birds, archived from the original on 2024-05-21:

Pseudobulweria rostrata
Pseudobulweria rostrata#Translingual

Pseudobulweria rostrata, a species of seafaring petrel found throughout Oceania.