How to Use storm petrel in a Sentence

storm petrel

noun

• Half of the 8,000 Ashy storm petrels in the world feed and nest on the Farallon Islands.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 10 July 2019
• About half of the world’s population of the rare ashy storm petrel use the islands.
  — Will Houston, The Mercury News, 11 July 2019
• In the past, people managed to get their light by burning beef fat, storm petrels (a fatty seabird), and sperm whale oil.
  — Nathanael Johnson, WIRED, 9 July 2018
• This is highly unusual behavior for a storm petrel: the birds live in the open ocean and only come ashore to nest.
  — oregonlive, 18 Sep. 2020
• In the winter, when the mouse population crashes, the owls turn to the storm petrels, which are just then arriving on the islands in large numbers.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 7 Oct. 2019
• The owls then begin eating the Ashy storm petrel, a small gray seabird that is listed as a species of special concern in California.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 10 July 2019
• The mice that have remained are food to migratory burrowing owls, which switch to preying on rare ashy-storm petrels when mice aren't available.
  — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 8 July 2019
• But when the mouse population crashes in the winter, the owls prey on the ashy storm-petrel, whose population on the islands — where half the world’s storm petrels nest — has been declining since the ’90s.
  — Laura Newberry, latimes.com, 7 July 2019
• And the monastery steps, home to storm petrel birds, were under heavy traffic for 12 hours a day, creating a precarious situation for the small animals.
  — Bridget Hallinan, CNT, 10 Oct. 2017
• Others, such as the Kermadec petrel and white-bellied storm petrel, found on surrounding islets, may return on their own—providing this summer's campaign can end the centurylong reign of the rats.
  — John Pickrell, Science | AAAS, 5 June 2019
• Forktail storm petrels, fulmars, shearwaters, kittiwakes, auklets and puffins also died.
  — Dan Joling, The Seattle Times, 16 Apr. 2019
• Officials recorded deaths of forktail storm petrels, fulmars, shearwaters, kittiwakes, auklets and puffins.
  — Dan Joling, The Seattle Times, 11 Aug. 2018
• The islands are also protected habitats for Manx shearwaters, northern fulmar, black-legged kittiwake, razorbill, guillemot, peregrine falcon and storm petrel.
  — Julia Blakely, Smithsonian, 11 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2024