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ˈwhale-bird
Name of various birds which inhabit the places where whales are found, or which feed on their oil or offal: (a) a petrel of the genus Prion or Procellaria; (b) the turnstone, Strepsilas interpres; (c) the red or grey phalarope; (d) the ivory gull.
1768Phil. Trans. LX. 117 Another bird, not much unlike a quail, which they call here the whale-bird, from its feeding on the offal of those fish. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Whale-bird, a beautiful little bird seen hovering in flocks over the Southern Ocean. 1875Melliss St. Helena 200 The Whale Bird (Procellaria glacialoides). 1879Bulletin U.S. Nat. Mus. No. 15. 85 Phalaropus fulicarius,..‘Shatgak’, Cumberland Eskimo. ‘Whale-bird’, or ‘Bow⁓head Bird’, of whalemen. |