European storm petrel
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The European storm petrel, also known as British storm petrel, or just storm petrel, is a species of seabird in the northern storm petrel family, Hydrobatidae. The small, square-tailed bird is entirel
Composite from The Crossley ID Guide
Storm petrels cannot walk on land; they shuffle on their tarsi.
Old illustrations, such as this one by John Gould, were painted from skins, and showed petrels in improbable standing positions.
"The Song of the Stormy Petrel" is a short piece of revolutionary literature written by the Russian writer Maxim Gorky in 1901. The poem is written in a variation of unrhymed trochaic tetrameter with
Stormy Petrel, painted by John James Audubon
Artistic rendering of Gorky late in life