Sooty albatross

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(Zool.) an albatross (Phœbetria fuliginosa) found chiefly in the Pacific Ocean; - called also nellie.

See also: Sooty

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Revisao dos registros sul-brasileiros do genero Phoebetria Reichenbach, 1853 e primeiro registro documentado de Phoebetria palpebrata para Santa Catarina.
Documented record of the Light-mantled Albatross Phoebetria palpebrata (Foster, 1785) from southeastern Brazil
4; see discussion below) and satellite telemetry data collected from foraging seabirds such as black-browed albatross (Thalassarche melanophrys, Cherel and Weimerskirch, 1995; Weimerskirch, 1998), greyheaded albatross (Thalassarche chrysostoma, Prince et al., 1998), light-mantled sooty albatross (Phoebetria palpebrata, Weimerskirch and Robertson, 1994), Southern Buller's albatross (Thalassarche bulleri, Sagar and Weimerskirch, 1996), waved albatross (Phoebetria irrorata, Anderson et al., 1998), and white-chinned petrels (Procellaria aequinoctialis, Catard and Weimerskirch, 1998).
Olfactory Foraging by Antarctic Procellariiform Seabirds: Life at High Reynolds Numbers

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