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The northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis), fulmar, [2] or Arctic fulmar [3] is an abundant seabird found primarily in subarctic regions of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans. There has been one confirmed sighting in the Southern Hemisphere , with a single bird seen south of New Zealand . [ 4 ]
The Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) is a tern in the family Laridae.This bird has a circumpolar breeding distribution covering the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of Europe (as far south as Brittany), Asia, and North America (as far south as Massachusetts).
Most of these range-restricted species are endemic to Macaronesian or Mediterranean islands, while three are endemic to the Caucasus region. In addition the following species are endemic to the region:
The specific epithet arcticus is the Latin word for "northern" or "arctic". [3] The black-backed woodpecker is now placed in the genus Picoides which was erected by the French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède in 1799. [4] [5] The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised. [5]
The final possibility is that Numenius is a Latinized form of the Greek noumenios, which was the word Diogenes Laërtius used to refer to a species of curlew. The specific name "borealis" is Latin for "northern". [7] This species has many common names. It has been named the prairie pigeon, fute, little curlew, doe-bird, and doughbird.
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The yellow-billed loon is an Arctic species, breeding primarily along the coasts of the Arctic Ocean as far north as 78° N and wintering on sheltered coastal waters of the northern Pacific Ocean and the northwestern coast of Norway. [2] It has been recorded as a breeding bird in Russia, Canada and the United States. [1]