A large seabird native to Bermuda, also called the Bermuda petrel, known for its loud cry.
From the bird's distinctive cry, which early English settlers in Bermuda spelled phonetically as 'cahow.' The name is onomatopoetic, imitating the sound the bird actually makes. This Bermudian endemic species was nearly extinct by the 1900s.
The cahow was so common in early Bermuda that settlers complained about the noise at night, but by 1951 only 18 birds remained—then dedicated conservationists brought the species back from the brink of extinction, a conservation success story that inspired modern wildlife protection efforts.
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