[61], The European population of the storm petrel has been estimated at 430,000–510,000 breeding pairs or 1,290,000–1,530,000 individual birds and makes up 95% of the world total numbers. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Today we feature a second ‘tube-nose’ and one that is as mysterious as it is well loved; the Storm Petrel. 1902. The return passage starts in April, with late records from the tropics and further south probably representing subadult birds that will not breed that year. Although the storm petrel is generally not territorial when breeding, a pair defends the nest chamber itself after the eggs have been laid. Well we’ve not had them breed on the island…or have we? [38] The eggs are incubated by both parents for 38–50 days, the longer periods arising when the eggs have become chilled through adult absence. The Westminster Publishing Co, Philadelphia. 2005. She’s a fine gell to look at, but the hitch is, Did Betsey inherit her sobriquet from an earlier and equally frugal Mother Carey on Nantucket? Ornithological Miscellany, Volume II, part VI. [20] The storm petrel is usually silent at sea, but sometimes gives the chattering call. It has the first two notes running into each other, and the final element is sometimes doubled. The birds less commonly nest in walls, under buildings, or down rabbit burrows. Mother Carey’s Chickens. [28] Other vocalisations include a fast wick-wick-wick, sometimes given in flight, and an up-CHERRK alarm which resembles the chatter-call. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Tipp, Cheryl. Poe, Edgar Allen. Rudyard Kipling described “Four or five Mother Carey’s chickens stormed round in circles, shrieking as they swept past the bows.” (4) Closer to home, they are mentioned in Edgar Allen Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. The neatness of everything was remarkable.”(17). Answers for Storm ___ , Mother Carey's chicken (6) crossword clue. 1897. [67] The Mother Carey character appears a number of times in literature. Doubleday Doran, NY. (9)(10) In some versions, the entourage of chicks was held to be the souls of sailors lost at sea. Elizabeth “Betsey” (Swain) Carey (1778–1862) was a native of Nantucket, the daughter of Uriah Swain (1754–1810) and Elizabeth Pinkham (1759–1810). [55] The American mink, a non-native species in Europe, is a strong swimmer, and can colonise islands up to 2 km (2,200 yd) from the mainland. (17) While President Adams had not been impressed with the “very indifferent” Washington House (as noted in his son’s diary), they went on to stay at Betsey’s new establishment in ‘Sconset and found it much more pleasing: his son noted, “We returned to the neat inn where we had ordered dinner, and found Mr. Paine, Dr. Morton, the collector of the place, Mr. Burnall, a Dr. Webb, and Mr. Athearn who joined our party. It feeds on small fish, squid, and zooplankton, while pattering on the sea's surface, and can find oily edible items by smell. Breeding birds moult later than non-breeders. The noise of the wind’s her screamin’ (15) Their son James Carey (1777–1812) was master of the ship Rose and Nantucket’s most successful captain in the China Trade. The storm petrel cannot survive on islands where land mammals such as rats and cats have been introduced, and it suffers natural predation from gulls, skuas, owls, and falcons. Or did Nantucket whalers encounter the nickname from other sailors, probably in England or Ireland where the name Carey abounds, and readily adopt it as one of Nantucket’s own? First presented in 1889, this theory holds that the storm petrel was thought by sailors to be a harbinger of bad weather sent by the Virgin Mary. Grant Richards Publishers, London. The Old Navy and the New. All rights reserved. [68] This is believed to be a corruption of mater cara (dear mother, the Virgin Mary), a reference to the supernatural Mother Carey, or a superstitious modification of an earlier Mother Mary's chicken to reduce the potency of the religious name. An apparently empty ocean will soon fill with hundreds of birds attracted by the smell. [2] The family is an ancient group of small species that is thought to have diverged early from the rest of the tubenoses; the supporting fossil record is poor, with specimens from California dating back only to the Late Miocene (11.6–5.3 million years ago). So as me ‘n’ my mate kin dine(14). The birds are believed to be a bad omen to mariners as they are said to either foretell or cause bad weather. Find clues for Storm ___ , Mother Carey's chicken (6) or most any crossword answer or clues for crossword answers. Named Shanunga after a ship’s sternboard attached to the house, Carey’s cottage along with nearby Auld Lang Syne are thought to be the two oldest houses on Nantucket (pre-dating the Jethro Coffin “Horseshoe House” built in 1686). Longevity records established from bird ringing recoveries include a bird aged 31 years 11 months 9 days,[37] and another aged more than 33 years. "Storm" arises from seamen's association of this bird with bad weather. The large majority of the population breeds on islands off the coasts of Europe, with the greatest numbers in the Faroe Islands, United Kingdom, Ireland, and Iceland. Ida Coffin, in her novel The Oldest House on Nantucket Island, makes reference to “Mother Carey”, and has characters buying eggs from Aunt Nabby Carey (19). Vol III May to October 1889. Either way, Storm petrels were not popular amongst sailors. Wednesday 8th April comments: Yesterday we have started bringing you some facts and figures about our breeding seabirds of the Isle of May (and the UK in general). I have always been fascinated by these tales, and very curious about how they came by their very unusual nickname. [5], The storm petrel was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae as Procellaria pelagica. Mother Carey is mentioned elsewhere in Nantucket literature. She’s the mother o’ the wrecks, ‘n’ the mother [10], The scientific name derives from Ancient Greek; Hydrobates is from hudro, water, and bates, walker,[11] and pelagicus is from pelagikos, of the sea. Search for crossword clues found in the Daily Celebrity, NY Times, Daily Mirror, Telegraph and major publications. Perhaps Masefield looked no further than the latter’s wonderfully evocative lithograph of Ma Carey on her broomstick. (5) I have always been fascinated with why they were dubbed Mother Carey’s Chickens. [15][44] A study on Leach's storm petrel, which consumes similar items, showed that the petrels were snipping pieces off plant leaves in flight, but it could not be confirmed that this was in the course of catching insects. [57] The flea Xenopsylla gratiosa and dermanyssid mites are commonly found, with lower numbers of ticks. The attraction of the fishy odour is sometimes enhanced by the addition of dimethylsulphide (DMS) a chemical also naturally produced by some planktonic organisms, although there are doubts about the safety of this possible carcinogen. Reading old tales, Mother Carey was a supernatural figure personifying the cruel and threatening sea in the imagination of sailors and she was a similar character to Davy Jones (who be some accounts may have been her husband!) [4] The European storm petrel is the only member of the genus Hydrobates, the remainder of the Hydrobatinae being placed in Oceanodroma, although the least storm petrel is sometimes separated as the sole member of Halocyptena.

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