Wilson's storm petrel

English

Etymology

The name commemorates the Scottish-American ornithologist Alexander Wilson.

Noun

Wilson's storm petrel (plural Wilson's storm petrels)

1. A small seabird of the storm petrel family Hydrobatidae, breeding on the Antarctic coastlines and nearby islands such as the South Shetland Islands.

Synonyms

• Wilson's petrel

Translations

small seabird

• Dutch: Wilsons stormvogeltje (nl) n
• Finnish: etelänkeiju (fi)
• French: océanite de Wilson f
• German: Buntfuß-Sturmschwalbe f
• Navajo: Kéyah Yistinídę́ę́ʼ níyol yiiʼ naatʼaʼígíí
• Portuguese: casquilho m
• Russian: качу́рка Ви́льсона f (kačúrka Vílʹsona)