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Seabird. The sooty tern is highly aerial and marine and spends months flying at sea, returning to land only for breeding. [1] Raft of coastal seabirds [2] Gulf of St. Lawrence, Quebec, Canada. Seabirds (also known as marine birds) are birds that are adapted to life within the marine environment. While seabirds vary greatly in lifestyle ...
Seabird colonies (2 C, 494 P) Shearwaters (2 C, 10 P) Storm-petrels (8 P) Birds of subantarctic islands (4 C, 56 P) Suliformes (2 C, 1 P)
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.
Order: Charadriiformes Family: Scolopacidae. Scolopacidae is a large diverse family of small to medium-sized shorebirds including the sandpipers, curlews, godwits, shanks, tattlers, woodcocks, snipes, dowitchers and phalaropes. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil.
The food taken by gulls includes fish and marine and freshwater invertebrates, both alive and already dead; terrestrial arthropods and invertebrates such as insects and earthworms; rodents, eggs, carrion, offal, reptiles, amphibians, seeds, fruit, human refuse, and even other birds. No gull species is a single-prey specialist, and no gull ...
Atlantic puffins are a type of alcid, a group of marine birds characterized by black and white plumage and stout, streamlined bodies. They have short wings, waterproof plumage, and feet set well ...
List of birds. Penguins. Ostriches. This article lists living orders and families of birds. In total there are about 10,000 species of birds described worldwide, though one estimate of the real number places it at almost twice that. [1] The order passerines (perching birds) alone accounts for well over 5,000 species.
A sea eagle or fish eagle (also called erne or ern, mostly in reference to the white-tailed eagle) is any of the birds of prey in the subfamily Haliaeetinae[2] of the bird of prey family Accipitridae. Ten extant species exist, currently described with this label. The subfamily has a significant reach, with a scholarly article in 2005 reporting ...