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| Image Description: |
A Storm Petrel shelters beside a wall |
| Image notes: |
Bobby described their call as like a fairy vomiting! |
| Species in Image: |
Storm Petrel |
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| Old Haa Image Reference Number: |
btc00241 |
| General details: |
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| Common Name |
Storm Petrel |
| Latin Name |
Hydrobates pelagicus |
| Shetland Name |
Aalamootie |
| Latin Group Name |
Procellariiformes |
| Latin Family Name |
Procellariidae |
| Common Family Name |
Fulmar, Petrels and Shearwaters |
| Description |
Summer visitor, breeding mainly on uninhabited islands away from ground predators. Largest colony is on Mousa where a recent estimate was about 7000. |
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