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  • n  relatively small long-winged tube-nosed bird that flies far from land

  • About three weeks ago Stefan Radich ("stormy petrel of the Balkans") quit Croatia, province of Yugo-Slavia.
  • Sister Elizabeth Kenny, the stormy petrel of polio, had a new complaint.
  • Other predators, such as the osprey and peregrine falcon, are gradually vanishing, as are the brown pelican and the extremely rare Bermuda petrel.

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