Wilson's storm petrel

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Wilson's storm petrel

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The name commemorates the Scottish-American ornithologist Alexander Wilson.

noun Wilson's storm petrels

A small seabird of species Oceanites oceanicus in the storm petrel family Oceanitidae, breeding on the Antarctic coastlines and nearby islands such as the South Shetland Islands.
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noun small seabird

Português	casquilho
Français	océanite de Wilson
Deutsch	Buntfuß-Sturmschwalbe
Русский	качу́рка Ви́льсона kačúrka Vílʹsona

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@misc{wilson_s_storm_petrel_2026,
  title = {Wilson's storm petrel},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wilson's%20storm%20petrel},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}