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Like many birds, seabirds often migrate after the breeding season. Of these, the trip taken by the Arctic tern is the farthest of any bird, crossing the equator in order to spend the Austral summer in Antarctica. Other species also undertake trans-equatorial trips, both from the north to the south, and from south to north.
Birds of subantarctic islands (4 C, 56 P) Suliformes (5 C, 3 P) T. ... The Handbook of Australian Sea-birds; I. Introduced mammals on seabird breeding islands; L ...
In this list of birds by common name 11,278 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. [1] Species marked with a "†" are extinct. Contents
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The blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii) is a marine bird native to subtropical and tropical regions of the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is one of six species of the genus Sula – known as boobies. It is easily recognizable by its distinctive bright blue feet, which is a sexually selected trait and a product of their diet. Males display their feet ...
Birds of islands of the Atlantic Ocean (10 C, 40 P) Pages in category "Birds of the Atlantic Ocean" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
Sea worm; W. Marine worm; Z. Marine zoology; Media in category "Marine animals" This category contains only the following file. Haeckel Actiniae.jpg 3,289 × 4,615 ...
The order was named Procellariiformes by German anatomist Max Fürbringer in 1888. [6] The word comes from the Latin word procella, which means a violent wind or a storm, and -iformes for order. [7] Until the beginning of the 20th century, the family Hydrobatidae was named Procellariidae, and the family now called Procellariidae was rendered ...