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A Storm Petrel shelters beside a wall
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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:  
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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