G'day Stuart,
You asked...
".. would like to know the French name for the Wedge-tailed Shearwater, Puffinus
pacificus."
Does "Puffin fouquet sound right ?
I found that answer at..
Multilingual Birdsearch Engine
http://www.knutas.com/birdsearch/
Other names supplied were..
Dutch Wigstaartpijlstormvogel
German Keilschwanz-Sturmtaucher
Norwegian Kilehalelire
Spanish Pardela del Pacífico
Swedish Kilstjärtslira
And for your friend a French Bird List
http://listoiseauxmonde.multimania.com/
Some other "foreign" Bird Name URLs are.......
Bird Names - A Translation Index
http://www.mumm.ac.be/~serge/birds/
Multilingual North European Bird Dictionary
http://www.megabytedata.com/MB064/inputform.html
Babel Birdy - Bird Name Translation
http://www.bavarianbirds.de/birdy_e.html
Birds of Europe Six Languages
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/roger_buglass/
Danish - English - Scientific
http://www.fuglar.is/isfugl.html
http://biobase.dk/~david-c/dk-la-uk.htm
Dutch - English - Scientific
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-58871/birdies/birdies.html
German - Latin
http://www.prachtfink.de/vogelnamen/s_nam17.html
Icelandic - Scientific
http://www.fuglar.is/isfugl.html
Swedish - Dutch - English
http://hem.fyristorg.com/vera/bird_names.htm
Birds of Sweden (in 17 languages)
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-58871/birdies/birdies.html
Regards, Bob Forsyth, Mount Isa, NW Qld.
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