petrels in English
While there are few wild animals in Iceland, there is abundant birdlife - ducks, geese and, among the many sea-birds I spotted, petrels , puffins, tern, gannets, skuas and shearwaters.
Use "petrels" in a sentence
1. ‘Petrels, Albatrosses, cormorants, frigatebirds, gulls etc
2. A further 7 species of petrels listed under the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP) face similar threats[12].
3. Snow petrels nest on the icebergs and feed on the sea life nearby.
4. Albatrosses and large petrels have wide annual ranges spanning all major ocean basins.
5. Giant petrels are the vultures of Antarctica and are always the first to the spoils.
6. Under the auspices of CMS there is an Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP)[35].
7. Ashy storm-petrels depart from and return to the nest at night to avoid predators
8. 16 Brown and McCormick's skuas and Wilson's petrels fly as far as temperate latitudes of the northern hemisphere.
9. Ashy storm-petrels have a long breeding cycle, laying just one egg in May and fledging in October
10. Cartilaginous Sentence Examples In humming-birds and petrels the trachea is partly divided by a vertical, longitudinal, Cartilaginous septum
11. Thomas Campbell Eyton wanted as many petrels as Gould could capture for a monograph on the Procellaridae.
12. Endemic Amsterdam Albatrosses and petrels are among the albatross endangered by most threatened birds introduced predators in the world.
13. ‘Usually you can expect to see great numbers of pelagic birds - gannets, shearwaters, jaegers, storm-petrels, Alcids - that live mainly at sea.’
14. Albatrosses and their close relatives, the large petrels, are among the world's most-threatened animals, with over half of the species at risk of extinction
15. Mice have direct and indirect negative impacts on declining seabirds - ashy storm-petrels and Cassin’s Auklets - so the FWS plans to eradicate house mice when funding becomes available.
16. A total of 17 different groups of seabirds were taken into account, including: loons, grebes, fulmars and petrels, shearwaters, pelicans, cormorants, shorebirds, gulls and kittawakes, terns, skimmers, and Alcids
17. Behind the cliff just the right type of lava has cooled in just the right way to form a labyrinth of tiny tubes and cracks into the perfect size for Galapagos storm petrels
18. Expressing concern also at the reports of continued loss of seabirds, particularly albatrosses, as a result of incidental mortality from longline fishing operations, and the loss of other marine species, including sharks and fin-fish species, as a result of incidental mortality, and noting the recent initiative to develop a convention for the protection of southern hemisphere albatrosses and petrels,
19. Other States pointed out that they participate in subregional and regional organizations with mandates to conserve non-target species taken incidentally in fishing operations (the United States), such as the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (EC), the Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans in the Baltic and North Seas, the Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area, the Agreement for the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (France (in the process of ratification), New Zealand, Spain and the United Kingdom) and the Inter-American Convention for the Protection and Conservation of Sea Turtles and their Habitats (United States