whale-birdn.
/ˈweɪlbəːd/, U.S. /ˈ(h)weɪlˌbərd/ Name of various birds which inhabit the places where whales are found, or which feed on their oil or offal: (a) a petrel of the genus Prion or Procellaria; (b) the turnstone, Strepsilas interpres; (c) the red or grey phalarope; (d) the ivory gull.
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the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Procellariidae (petrel) > member of genus Pachyptila (prion)
whale-bird1771
prion1848
fairy prion1885
the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Procellariidae (petrel) > member of genus Procellaria
petrel1602
whale-bird1771
the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Phalaropodidae > phalaropus fulicarus (red phalarope)
coot-footed tringa1758
whale-bird1771
red phalarope1776
red lobefoot1819
red coot-foot1828
the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > arenaria interpres (turnstone)
sea-lark1602
turnstone1674
sea-dotterel1676
stone-pecker1731
whale-bird1771
bullfinch plover1864
tangle-picker1882
turkey-bird1885
jinny1888
sparked back (plover)1888
the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Larus (gull) > larus eburnea (ivory gull)
whale-bird1771
snow-bird1802
senator1852
whale-gull1852
ivory gull1885
the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Procellariidae (petrel) > member of genus Procellaria > other types
petrel1602
Antarctic petrel1777
grey petrel1782
sea-nymph1875
whale-bird1875
pediunker1910
1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 117 Another bird, not much unlike a quail, which they call here the whale-bird, from its feeding on the offal of those fish.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Whale-bird, a beautiful little bird seen hovering in flocks over the Southern Ocean.
1875 J. C. Melliss St. Helena 200 The Whale Bird (Procellaria glacialoides).
1879 Bullet. U.S. National Mus. No. 15. 85 Phalaropus fulicarius,..‘Shatgak’, Cumberland Eskimo. ‘Whale-bird’, or ‘Bow~head Bird’, of whalemen.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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