モグリウミツバメ

noun

diving petrel; common diving petrel

Refers to the common diving petrel (Pelecanoides urinatrix) or diving petrels in general. A technical bird name; in everyday contexts, the katakana form is standard.

• モグリウミツバメは南みなみ半はん球きゅうの海うみに生せい息そくする小こ型がたの海うみ鳥どりです。

  The diving petrel is a small seabird that inhabits the oceans of the Southern Hemisphere.

• 図ず鑑かんでモグリウミツバメの生せい態たいを調しらべた。

  I looked up the ecology of the diving petrel in a field guide.