A bird of immense wing power is the tiny storm petrel, the smallest known web-footed bird. It belongs to every sea. Although seemingly frail, it breasts the utmost fury of the storm, skimming with incredible velocity the trough of the waves, and gliding rapidlv over their snowy crests. Petrels have been observed 2000 miles from land.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 185, 6 August 1931, Page 13
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