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.

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