gadfly petrel

English

Pterodroma cervicalis

Noun

gadfly petrel (plural gadfly petrels)

1. A petrel of the genus Pterodroma.
   • 2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 61:

     The taiko, a gadfly petrel from the Chatham Islands near to New Zealand, was well known to islanders during the nineteenth century, being used by them as a food resource.

Translations

petrel of the genus Pterodroma

• Finnish: viistäjä (fi)
• Russian: тайфунник (tajfunnik)