gadfly petrel
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editgadfly petrel (plural gadfly petrels)
- 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.