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  • noun Plural form of petrel.

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Examples

  • It turned out the best place to hear the petrels was a small pile of rocks just outside the braw.

    NPR Topics: News 2009

  • All 67 oceanic bird species, such as petrels and albatrosses, are among the most vulnerable birds on Earth to climate change.

    Secretary Salazar Releases New ���State of the Birds��� Report Showing Climate Change Threatens Hundreds of Species 2010

  • _ January 28 and 31, but as has just been noted "petrels" is the proper word.

    The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 Various 1884

  • The report says oceanic birds, such as petrels and albatrosses, are at particular risk from a rapidly changing marine ecosystem and rising sea levels.

    Newsvine - Get Smarter Here Jay Root 2010

  • The report says oceanic birds, such as petrels and albatrosses, are at particular risk from a rapidly changing

    WN.com - Articles related to Bank of America to Offer Home Loan Writedowns 2010

  • Calculating the flying fish's lift-to-drag ratios - a measure of the horizontal distance travelled relative to the descent in height during a glide - Choi and Park found that the flying fish performed remarkably well: gliding better than insects and as well as birds such as petrels and wood ducks.

    YubaNet.com 2010

  • In case of trawling, the trailing of cone-shaped nets behind boats, large birds such as petrels and albatrosses are unable to manoeuvre out of the way of the fishing wires, while with the use of gillnets diving birds can become entangled in the long line of netting following the vessel.

    YubaNet.com 2008

  • When the Gulf of Mexico is poisoned by a volcanic eruption of an oil rig, by the negligence, greed, and power of Big Oil and by the corruption of politicians purchased by Big Oil, not only is the Gulf itself and all its citizens -- petrels, pelicans, fish beyond number -- denied justice, but so are the human beings who live by the bounty of the Gulf.

    Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Justice Still Denied: My Mini-Sermon at the 'One Nation Working Together' Rally Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2010

  • When the Gulf of Mexico is poisoned by a volcanic eruption of an oil rig, by the negligence, greed, and power of Big Oil and by the corruption of politicians purchased by Big Oil, not only is the Gulf itself and all its citizens -- petrels, pelicans, fish beyond number -- denied justice, but so are the human beings who live by the bounty of the Gulf.

    Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Justice Still Denied: My Mini-Sermon at the 'One Nation Working Together' Rally Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2010

  • We were all alone there, a pair of storm petrels perched in mid air on a steel stick that arose out of snow and that vanished above into snow.

    CHAPTER XXXIV 2010

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