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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Brown and McCormick's skuas and Wilson's petrels fly as far as temperate latitudes of the northern hemisphere.
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But my children were as amazed at this strange petrel with its eerie call as I had hoped they would be.
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By day, a colony of petrels or shearwaters is a quiet, apparently deserted place.
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Fulmars, gannets and an occasional storm petrel performed aerobatics in our wake.
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In summer petrels nest in crevices in the rocks, and colonies of penguins breed on nearby islands.
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Thomas Campbell Eyton wanted as many petrels as Gould could capture for a monograph on the Procellaridae.
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We identified two different types of albatross, four species of petrel , and a tern.