barau's petrel
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A medium-sized gadfly petrel, Pterodroma baraui.
Example Sentences
- "Our continued searching was rewarded, however, by excellent views of two Barau's Petrels one at each end of the day."
- "In 1992–93 poachers shot dozens, possibly hundreds, of Barau's Petrels as they flew inland at dusk near Saint-Pierre."
- "Feral cats living near colonies preyed mostly on Barau's Petrels, killing >900 birds annually (58% adults, 42% fledglings) in 2 studied colonies (Faulquier et al. 2009); such predation, particularly of adults, is not sustainable in a normally long-lived species, and could lead to extinction within 100 years (Russell et al. 2009)."
Etymology
From Barau (“a surname”) + petrel, after French agricultural engineer and ornithologist Armand Barau.