Hydrobatidae — noun storm petrels • Syn: ↑family Hydrobatidae • Hypernyms: ↑bird family • Member Holonyms: ↑Procellariiformes, ↑order Procellariiformes • Member Meronyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
bird family — noun a family of warm blooded egg laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings • Hypernyms: ↑family • Hyponyms: ↑Struthionidae, ↑family Struthionidae, ↑Casuaridae, ↑family Casuaridae, ↑Apterygidae, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Procellariiformes — Taxobox name = Procellariiformes fossil range = Middle Eocene – Recent image width = 250px image caption = Cape Petrel Daption capense regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves infraclassis = Neognathae ordo = Procellariiformes ordo… … Wikipedia
procellariiform — ▪ bird Introduction any of the group of seabirds that includes the albatrosses (albatross) (family Diomedeidae); shearwaters (shearwater), fulmars (fulmar), prions (prion), and large petrels (petrel) (Procellariidae); storm petrels (storm… … Universalium
Storm-petrel — Taxobox name = Storm petrels image width = 250px image caption = Wilson s Storm Petrel regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Procellariiformes familia = Hydrobatidae familia authority = Mathews, 1912 subdivision ranks = Genera … Wikipedia
Guadalupe Storm-petrel — Taxobox name = Guadalupe Storm petrel status = PE status system = iucn3.1 regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Procellariiformes familia = Hydrobatidae genus = Oceanodroma species = O. macrodactyla binomial = Oceanodroma… … Wikipedia
Guadalupe Storm Petrel — Illustration from 1907 Conservation status … Wikipedia
storm petrel — any of several small, tube nosed seabirds of the family Hydrobatidae, usually having black or sooty brown plumage with a white rump. Also, storm petrel. Cf. stormy petrel. [1795 1805] * * * Any of about 20 species (family Hydrobatidae) of petrels … Universalium
Polynesian Storm Petrel — Conservation status Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification K … Wikipedia
petrel — /pe treuhl/, n. any of numerous tube nosed seabirds of the families Procellariidae, Hydrobatidae, and Pelecanoididae. Cf. storm petrel, diving petrel. [1670 80; earlier pitteral, of uncert. orig.; perh. altered by assoc. with St. Peter (who… … Universalium