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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 ]
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version ... The following is a list of the restricted-range endemic bird species found in the Western ...
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]
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Birds of the Arctic (5 C, 57 P) Freshwater fish of the Arctic (34 P)
The Arctic tern's call is more nasal and rasping than that of the common, and is easily distinguishable from that of the roseate. [22] This bird's closest relatives are a group of South Polar species, the South American (Sterna hirundinacea), Kerguelen (S. virgata), and Antarctic (S. vittata) terns. [23]
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
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.