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Meaning of "petrels"
petrel: a type of seabird known for its long wings and tube-like nostrils. ~ Context: Petrels are known for their unique physical characteristics that help them thrive in marine environments
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Northern giant petrels are also significantly at risk.
Flight is more fluttering than most petrels.
The storm petrels are two separate clades.
All birds were southern giant petrels.
Peruvian diving petrels are considered highly endangered.
Regular updates on population status of albatrosses and petrels.
Even the giant petrels back off.
The petrels readily consumed all untreated baits.
Albatrosses and petrels followed the ship.
They are bullied by the more aggressive giant petrels.
The snow petrels have arrived and are courting.
It also scavenges on the carcasses of petrels and albatrosses.
Gadfly petrels have relatively long breeding seasons.
And the bloodthirsty giant petrels.
Giant petrels are the first to arrive.
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Procellariiformes includes petrels and albatrosses.
The petrels are now amongst the chicks.
Colonies of nocturnal burrowing petrels exist on a few islands.
We also saw several nesting southern giant petrels.
There are petrels on all sides.
Oceanodroma is a genus of storm petrels.
Albatrosses and petrels are threatened globally at sea and on land.
Time for more petrels.
Albatrosses and petrels come on to land only when they breed.
He saw the stormy petrels.
Petrels also catch opossum shrimps from waters close to the colony.
Its plumage makes it one of the easier petrels to identify at sea.
Their eggs and chicks are vulnerable to predation by skuas and petrels.
The petrels take flight just before the wind turns east.
Ichthyornis was a seabird that resembled the gulls and petrels of today.
Albatrosses and petrels are also falling victim to the longline fishing industry.
The particular focus was on penguins and a species of shearwater known as petrels.
Breeding may not occur until the petrels are seven years old.
The few other species were nearly all albatrosses and giant petrels.
Snow petrels nest on the icebergs and feed on the sea life nearby.
There is a need to further protect albatrosses and giant petrels in these fisheries.
Many snow petrels and south polar skuas also breed in this area.
This method of feeding flight is most commonly used by austral storm petrels.
The reproductive period of the petrels covers about eight months of the year.
That seems to be one of the main breeding areas for the petrels.
Albatrosses and petrels are among the most threatened group of birds in the world.
The chicks are also at risk from predatory birds such as northern giant petrels.
After laying their eggs the petrels take time out to clean their plumage.
The cats introduced to deal with the rats also attacked the petrels.
Thousands of small petrels and prions fly agitatedly around the cliffs in the darkness.
Earlier research had shown that seabirds such as petrels eat a lot of plastic.
European storm petrels of the family Hydrobatidae.
The reporting of observed effort shows that captures of grey petrels are decreasing through time.
Giant petrels are the vultures of Antarctica.
Reunion is the only tropical island in the world to play host two endemic petrels.
