storm petrel

See also: storm-petrel

English

Alternative forms

storm-petrel

Noun

storm petrel (plural storm petrels)

Any of several small seabirds, of the families Hydrobatidae (northern storm petrels) or Oceanitidae (southern storm petrels or Austral 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): Mother Carey's chicken, storm-petrel, stormy petrel

Derived terms

Translations

small seabird

Asturian: paín (ast)
Bulgarian: буревестник (bg) m (burevestnik)
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)
Icelandic: stormsvala (is) f
Irish: éan an anró m, guairdeall m, peadairín na stoirme m
Japanese: 海燕 (ja) (うみつばめ, umi-tsubame), ウミツバメ (うみつばめ, 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

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