Noun:

तूफ़ानी पितरेल,

petrels's Usage Examples:

They catch puffins, fulmar petrels, guillemots, razorbirds, Manx shearwaters and solan geese both for their oil and for food.

FULMAR, from the Gaelic Fulmaire, the Fulmarus glacialis of modern ornithologists, one of the largest of the petrels (Procellariidae) of the northern hemisphere, being about the size of the common gull (Larus canus) and not unlike it in general coloration, except thatits primaries are grey instead of black.

The sea-birds include a great variety of gulls, guillemots, cormorants, albatrosses (four species), fulmars and petrels, and in the Gulf of St Lawrence the gannet is very abundant.

The sea-elephant and sea-leopard are characteristic. Penguins of various kinds are abundant; a teal (Querquedula Eatoni) peculiar to Kerguelen and the Crozets is also found in considerable numbers, and petrels, especially the giant petrel (Ossifraga gigantea), skuas, gulls, sheath-bills (Chionis minor), albatross, terns, cormorants and Cape pigeons frequent the island.

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27) are steps which, though indicated by Merrem, are here for the first time clearly laid down; and the separation of the gulls from the petrels (No.

Tubinares, petrels and albatrosses.

A similar rotation and dislocation occurs in various petrels, in correlation with the indigestible sepia-bills, 'c., which these birds swallow in great quantities.

In humming-birds and petrels the trachea is partly divided by a vertical, longitudinal, cartilaginous septum.

To appreciate this, it is sufficient to enumerate the birds without the critical muscle: Passeriformes and Coraciiformes, without exception; Ardeae and Podiceps; lastly various genera of storks, pigeons, parrots, petrels and auks.

Synonyms:

pelagic bird, white-chinned petrel, giant fulmar, Procellariidae, Procellaria aequinoctialis, oceanic bird, Macronectes giganteus, shearwater, giant petrel, family Procellariidae, fulmar petrel, Fulmarus glacialis, storm petrel, fulmar,