"Mother Carey's chicken" meaning in English

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        {
          "ref": "1773, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 27 December",
          "text": "A few blue petrels, black sheer-waters and Mather Caries chickens are all the birds we see."
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        {
          "ref": "2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 36",
          "text": "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."
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        "The storm petrel."
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        "(originally nautical) The storm petrel."
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  "word": "Mother Carey's chicken"
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        }
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        "The storm petrel."
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        "(originally nautical) The storm petrel."
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