Article Nº 0236 Bird Vol. I · p. 140
Bulwer’s petrel (Balweria bulweri)
Original title: Anjinho (Balweria bulweri)
Bulwer's petrel, a dark-plumaged seabird of the petrel family that lays a single egg in rock crevices and nests on the Desertas, Ponta de São Lourenço and the Porto Santo islets.
A web-footed seabird of the family Procellariidae. It has dark plumage, and its clutch consists of a single egg, laid in crevices in the rocks. It lives and nests on the Desertas (‘deserted islands’) and on the rocks of Ponta de São Lourenço and the islets of Porto Santo (‘holy harbour’).
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