Antarctic prion

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Antarctic prion

n
(Animals) another name for dove prion
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Interannual variation in the breeding biology of the Antarctic prion Pachyptila desolata at Bird Island, South Georgia.
Olfactory Foraging by Antarctic Procellariiform Seabirds: Life at High Reynolds Numbers
More-recent trials have shown that Antarctic prions can detect DMS at concentrations that they'd encounter while flying over the ocean, Nevitt and Bonadonna report in the July Biology Letters.
Myth of the bad-nose birds: study of avian sense of smell recovers from Audubon's blunder
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