storm petrel

See also: storm-petrel

English

Storm petrel

Alternative forms

• storm-petrel

Noun

storm petrel (plural storm petrels)

1. Any of several small seabirds, of the family Hydrobatidae, having dark plumage and a white rump.

Synonyms

• (seabird in Hydrobatidae): Mother Carey's chicken, storm-petrel, stormy petrel

Translations

any of several small seabirds, of the family Hydrobatidae

• Danish: stormsvale c
• Dutch: stormvogeltje n
• Faroese: drunnhvíti m
• Finnish: ulappakeiju (fi)
• 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
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• 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)