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Some seabirds, principally those that nest in tundra, as skuas and phalaropes do, will migrate over land as well. [ 4 ] [ 72 ] The more marine species, such as petrels, auks and gannets , are more restricted in their habits, but are occasionally seen inland as vagrants.
Spending the autumn and winter in the open ocean of the cold northern seas, the Atlantic puffin returns to coastal areas at the start of the breeding season in late spring. It nests in clifftop colonies, digging a burrow in which a single white egg is laid. Chicks mostly feed on whole fish and grow rapidly.
Seabirds fly low over water but gain altitude when crossing land, and the reverse pattern is seen in land birds. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] However most bird migration is in the range of 150 to 600 m (490–2,000 ft).
They nest in burrows and often give eerie contact calls on their night-time visits. They lay a single white egg. They lay a single white egg. The chicks of some species, notably short-tailed and sooty shearwaters, are subject to harvesting from their nest burrows for food, a practice known as muttonbirding , in Australia and New Zealand.
Marbled murrelet winter habitat is the same as the nesting and foraging habitat. During the winter marbled murrelets use inland old-growth or mature sites for roosting, courtship, and investigating nest sites. The use of inland lakes during the nonbreeding season occurs in conjunction with visits to nesting areas. [14]
The area which a nest occupies grows throughout the breeding season as the breeding pairs throw their excrement outside the nest. [92] Over years, nests can reach 2 m (6 + 1 ⁄ 2 ft) in height. [98] Northern gannets lay one egg that on average weighs 104.5 g (3 + 5 ⁄ 8 oz), [99] which is light for such a large seabird. [100]
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The majority of procellariiforms nest once a year and do so seasonally. [69] Some tropical shearwaters, like the Christmas shearwater, are able to nest on cycles slightly shorter than a year, and the large great albatrosses (genus Diomedea) nest in alternate years (if successful). Most temperate and polar species nest over the spring-summer ...