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pediunker|pɛdɪˈʌŋkə(r)|
[Etym. unknown.]
A name for the grey petrel, Procellaria cinerea, originally used in the island of Tristan da Cunha, where this bird is common.
1910K. M. Barrow Three Yrs. in Tristan da Cunha 275 The ‘Pediunker’ lays in May and June; it is like a petrel. 1923A. H. Macklin in F. Wild Shackleton's Last Voy. xii. 253 Gordon Glass had with him his dog, which occasionally discovered a ‘pediunker’, a species of seabird which frequents the island [sc. Tristan da Cunha]. 1952J. Fisher Fulmar xvi. 381 Barnacles on birds are rare, though they have been found in the tail-feathers of the sub-antarctic Adamastor cinereus, the pediunker or grey petrel. 1967B. Roberts Wilson's Birds of Antarctic 139/2 Grey Petrel or Pediunker, Procellaria cinerea. Drawings of a recently killed adult {male}. |