Petrels: the largest kind, Procellaria gigantea, or nelly. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
Great numbers of gulls (‘Procellaria turtur’, Smith), and several others, float over the surface. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
Of the species that disappeared, four were probably endemic; these were a flightless duck and a storm-petrel, both undescribed, and likely two petrels of the genera Pterodroma and Procellaria. From Wordnik.com. [Amsterdam and Saint-Paul Islands temperate grasslands] Reference
There are two bog communities: Sphagnum cf, recurvum on both plateau and lowland and Scirpus sulcatus on the plateau which is perpetuated by the burrowing of the endemic spectacled petrel Procellaria conspicillata. From Wordnik.com. [Gough Island Wildlife Reserve, United Kingdom] Reference
BirdLife International (2008) Procellaria parkinsoni. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Procellaria aequinoctialis (1.3 kg, n = 5), sooty albatross. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Procellaria gigantea, GMEL. — — — — — — perspicillata. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1] Reference
I also shot this afternoon three Cape pigeons (Procellaria capensis) white underneath, spotted black and white above. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1] Reference
All the three specimens of this species had a distinct although minute claw, representing a thumb, upon one leg, thus apparently forming a link between the genus Procellaria and the genus Diomedea. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1] Reference
I saw but few Cape pigeons (Procellaria capensis) after passing the 40th degree of longitude, and neither Cape pigeons nor albatrosses after passing the 95th degree of longitude, and 32nd parallel of latitude. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XIII] Reference
We had numerous birds hovering round the ship; principally fulmars (Procellaria glacialis) and shearwaters (Procellaria puffinus) and not unfrequently saw shoals of grampusses sporting about, which the Greenland seamen term finners from their large dorsal fin. From Wordnik.com. [The Journey to the Polar Sea] Reference
Other residents of the islands are sooty albatross (Phoebetria fusca) (240 pairs), remnant populations of soft-plumaged petrel (Pterodroma mollis) and grey petrel (Procellaria cinera), antarctic tern (Sterna vittata tristanensis), brown skua (Catharacta lonnbergi), and common waxbill (Estrilda astrild) (introduced 1977-1985). From Wordnik.com. [Amsterdam and Saint-Paul Islands temperate grasslands] Reference
Black Petrels (Procellaria parkinsoni) Patrol the Ocean Shelf-Break: GPS Tracking of a Vulnerable Procellariiform Seabird. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
(‘Procellaria’) of different sizes abound. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
(Procellaria parkinsoni) is listed as vulnerable (VU D2 on the IUCN Red List. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
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Procellaria gigantea, GMEL. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Complete] Reference
Procellaria gigantea, Auct. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2] Reference
(2001) Preliminary modelling of black petrels (Procellaria parkinsoni) to assess population status. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Procellaria parkinsoni) Patrol the Ocean Shelf-Break: GPS Tracking of a Vulnerable Procellariiform Seabird. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Procellaria parkinsoni. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Procellaria of naturalists. From Wordnik.com. [Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51] Reference
Procellaria pehgica. From Wordnik.com. [Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen] Reference
Procellaria pelagica. From Wordnik.com. [Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen] Reference
Procellaria gigantea, habits of, 309. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
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