Gadfly petrel

(redirected from Pterodroma)
(Zool.) one of several small petrels of the genus Oestrelata.

See also: Gadfly

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Central place foraging by breeding Cook's petrel Pterodroma cookii: foraging duration reflects range, diet and chick meal mass.--Mar.
Home range and foraging habitat preference of Scopoli's shearwater Calonectris diomedea during the early chick-rearing phase in the eastern Mediterranean
Barau's Petrel Pterodroma baraui: History, biology, and conservation of an endangered petrel.
Effects of gas flaring on the behavior of night-migrating birds at an artificial oil-production island, Arctic Alaska
2009: Feral cats Felis catus threaten the endangered endemic Barau's petrel Pterodroma baraui at Reunion Island (Western Indian Ocean).
Free-ranging house cats in urban and rural areas in the north: useful rodent killers or harmful bird predators?
Marin & Caceres (2010) provided an account of nesting Pterodroma ultima, a first for Chile; Lazo (2011) confirmed nesting of Pterodroma neglecta for the first time on Salas y Gomez Island and nesting of Fregeta minor on Easter Island.
Las aves marinas de Isla de Pascua, Isla Salas y Gomez e Islas Desventuradas, Oceano Pacifico suroriental
145); seabirds (principally mottled petrels, Pterodroma inexpectata) bred elsewhere on Banks Peninsula well into the 20th Century (Stead 1927).
Soil selenium in a forested seabird colony: distribution, sources, uptake by plants, and comparison with non-seabird sites
Pterodroma said: "A Minke Whale was remarkably close inshore at Cambois last Thursday, so it seems possible that this was the same animal and already ill when seen last week."
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I went further and said pterodroma mollis is the Latin name for kestrel and carr is a British dialect word for woods from the 16th century.
Mapping name of a wood
Hawaiian petrels (Pterodroma sandwichensis) are remarkable seabirds that travel as far as the Aleutian Islands in Alaska to obtain food for their young, and then return each year to the Hawaiian Islands to breed.
Hawaiian Petrel faces uncertain future
* Dark-rumped petrel (E) Pterodroma phaeopygia sandwichensis
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