To begin with, the stormy petrel is a bird, but a rather unusual bird. It gets its name (“petrel”) from St. Peter. St. Peter is said to have walked on the water, and these birds seem able to do the same thing!

All we know is that they are web-footed birds (In fact, the smallest of all web-footed birds) and that they manage in some way to stay above the water as if they are “wa1king” on it.