The petrel is a bird not much unlike a swallow, but smaller, and with a shorter tail. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage to New Holland] Reference
Some have interpreted the Hebrew word by "petrel" or. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Several petrel species build burrows to nest in the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Antarctic Peninsula] Reference
A white - bellied petrel wheeled in the sky but said nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
Rediscovery of a petrel and new faunal records from Gau Island. From Wordnik.com. [Fiji tropical moist forests] Reference
It defines the deep contrariness of the midsummer storm petrel. From Wordnik.com. [A Year on the Wing] Reference
The white-headed petrel Pterodroma lessonii at Macquarie Island. From Wordnik.com. [MacQuarie Island, Australia] Reference
One of Nokia's U.S. business partners is also its stormy petrel. From Wordnik.com. [Kallasvuo's Nokia In New Patent Spat With Qualcomm] Reference
Above them, a single snow petrel wheeled against the Hockney blue. From Wordnik.com. [Terra Incognita]
Attached was a summary of this longer article about the Beck's petrel. From Wordnik.com. [Fine Art Friday] Reference
Well, Ai thinking bout taht an desided mi fabourite is “petrel bloo”. From Wordnik.com. [Leaving car at home, - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
The petrel builds the nest, which the tuatara defends and keeps pest-free. From Wordnik.com. [For young readers: ÂHow to Clean a Hippopotamus'] Reference
New Zealand storm petrel, last seen in 19th century, rediscovered in 2003. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference
Another sea-bird, very different in appearance, is the little stormy petrel. From Wordnik.com. [The Children's Book of London] Reference
The petrel is at sea all day, and scorns the quiet land and delights of home. From Wordnik.com. [The Children's Book of London] Reference
In addition to the Cape pigeons an occasional stormy petrel flashed overhead. From Wordnik.com. [The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told]
Seabirds are returning to the island, and petrel and shearwater burrows are common. From Wordnik.com. [Chatham Island temperate forests] Reference
Both species, as well as Fea's petrel (Pterodroma feae), are considered globally threatened. From Wordnik.com. [Madeira evergreen forests] Reference
Three days is the average storm petrel incubation shift, three days in a damp, black crevice. From Wordnik.com. [A Year on the Wing] Reference
One important conservation success story has been the recovery of the endemic Bermuda petrel. From Wordnik.com. [Bermuda subtropical conifer forests] Reference
Atlantic petrel Pterodroma incerta (VU) is endemic to Gough and the Tristan group of islands. From Wordnik.com. [Gough Island Wildlife Reserve, United Kingdom] Reference
Burrowing petrel species generally do not damage vegetation, but rather increase soil aeration and drainage. From Wordnik.com. [Antarctic Peninsula] Reference
The tuatara, a nocturnal lizardlike reptile from New Zealand, shares a nest with the diurnal petrel, a sea bird. From Wordnik.com. [For young readers: ÂHow to Clean a Hippopotamus'] Reference
Fossils show that over 20 petrel species lived here, but 8 species went extinct after the arrival of the Moriori. From Wordnik.com. [Chatham Island temperate forests] Reference
Erosion naturally followed destruction of the forest, eliminating significant habitat for the burrowing petrel species. From Wordnik.com. [Amsterdam and Saint-Paul Islands temperate grasslands] Reference
Still I was always a bit of a stormy petrel rejoicing in a gale, and my capacity has not waned even in my eightieth year. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
The soft-plumaged petrel Pterodroma mollis and white bellied storm petrel Fregetta gralaria populations are globally important. From Wordnik.com. [Gough Island Wildlife Reserve, United Kingdom] Reference
Two birds are endemic to Madeira, Zino's petrel (Pterodroma madeira) and Trocaz pigeon or long-toed wood pigeon (Columba trocaz). From Wordnik.com. [Madeira evergreen forests] Reference
Other birds include brown noddy (Anous stolidus), phoenix petrel (Pterodroma alba arminjoniana), and sooty tern (Sterna fuscata). From Wordnik.com. [Trinidade-Martin Vaz Islands tropical forests] Reference
Non-endemic threatened birds include the waved albatross Phoebastria irrorata (VU) and Markham's storm-petrel Oceanodroma markhami. From Wordnik.com. [Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador] Reference
There hasn't been a confirmed sighting since the 1920s, but a British ornithological expedition to PNG has rediscovered Beck's petrel. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
Mr. Churchill, at the time of which I am speaking, was already celebrated as a stormy petrel -- he just could not keep out of a fight. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years in the British House of Commons] Reference
She was still puzzling over it when Archey, that stormy petrel of bad news, came in and very soon took her mind from anonymous letters. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Minds Her Business] Reference
This was as a protection to the hut in the periods of the great gales when all the island was as a tiny petrel in the maw of the hurricane. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 19] Reference
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