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totorore

1. (noun) Antarctic prion, Pachyptila desolata - a small, blue and white seabird with narrow black tip on tail. Upperparts blue-grey, with a broad, M-shaped mark extending from elbow on upperwing to where hindwing meets back. Underparts white.

Synonyms: whiroia, tōtōrore

2. (noun) muttonbird, sooty shearwater, Puffinus griseus - a grey-faced petrel with a long slender bill hooked at the tip and silvery-grey flash on the underwings, which nests in underground burrows.

See also hakoko

Synonyms: ōi, hakoko, koakoa, hākēkeke, tītī, takakau

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