storm petrel

See also: storm-petrel

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Alternative forms

• storm-petrel

Noun

storm petrel (plural storm petrels)

1. Any of several small seabirds, of the families Hydrobatidae (northern storm petrels) or Oceanitidae (southern storm petrels), having dark plumage and a white rump.
   • 2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 127:

     Nólsoy is home to one of the largest breeding colonies of storm petrels on earth.

Synonyms

• (seabird in Hydrobatidae or Oceanitidae): mitty (archaic), Mother Carey's chicken, stormfinch (archaic), storm-petrel, stormy petrel, witch

Derived terms

• Leach's storm petrel
• northern storm petrel
• Pincoya storm petrel
• southern storm petrel
• Townsend's storm petrel

Translations

small seabird

Asturian: paín (ast) Bulgarian: буревестник (bg) m (burevestnik) Catalan: ocell de tempesta m, noneta f (Balears) Chinese: Mandarin: 海燕 (zh) (hǎiyàn) Danish: stormsvale c Dutch: stormvogeltje (nl) n Faroese: drunnhvíti m Finnish: keiju (fi); ulappakeiju (fi) (Hydrobatidae) French: pétrel-tempête (fr) m, océanite (fr) Galician: paíño m German: Sturmschwalbe n Greek: Ancient: κέπφος m (képphos) Hungarian: bajkeverő (hu) Icelandic: stormsvala (is) f Irish: éan an anró m, guairdeall m, peadairín na stoirme m Japanese: 海燕 (ja) (ウミツバメ, umi-tsubame) Macedonian: буревесник m (burevesnik) Maori: takahikare Navajo: níyol yiiʼ naatʼaʼígíí Norwegian: havsvale (no) Portuguese: painho (pt) m Russian: качу́рка (ru) f (kačúrka) Slovak: víchrovníček m Spanish: paíño m Swedish: stormsvala (sv) Welsh: pedryn drycin m