oceanic bird

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Noun

oceanic bird - bird of the open seas

sea bird, seabird, seafowl - a bird that frequents coastal waters and the open ocean: gulls; pelicans; gannets; cormorants; albatrosses; petrels; etc.

procellariiform seabird - large long-winged bird with hooked bill and tubular nostrils that wanders the open seas

mollymawk, albatross - large web-footed birds of the southern hemisphere having long narrow wings; noted for powerful gliding flight

petrel - relatively small long-winged tube-nosed bird that flies far from land

diving petrel - any of several small diving birds of southern hemisphere seas; somewhat resemble auks

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Clark proposes 80 terms as POc bird names from the 200 cognate sets of bird names analyzed in the text, although many more unrecorded Oceanic bird names exist.

Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley and Meredith Osmond (eds.): The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic: the culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society; 4: Animals

The dark-rumped petrel -- known locally as pata pegada, or web-footed an -- is an oceanic bird whose arm-length nesting burrows once pocked the islands' humid volcanic highlands.

Seabird sales pitch: for seabirds starting their first family, home is where biologists fake it

The tragic deaths of whales and a variety of oceanic birds, highlights the problem.

Warning in sea pups

With Ophelia bringing another blast of Atlantic air we should see more American or oceanic birds this week.