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The sheathbills are a family of birds, Chionidae.Classified in the wader order Charadriiformes, the family consists of one genus, Chionis with two species. They breed on subantarctic islands and the Antarctic Peninsula, and the snowy sheathbill migrates to the Falkland Islands and coastal southern South America in the southern winter; they are the only bird family endemic as breeders to the ...
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Family Chionididae (sheathbills) Family Pluvianellidae (Magellanic plover) Suborder Lari (gulls and allies) Family Alcidae (puffins, guillemots, murres, and allies) Family Dromadidae (crab plover) Family Glareolidae (pratincoles and coursers) Family Laridae (gulls, terns, and skimmers) Family Pluvianidae (Egyptian plover) Family Stercorariidae ...
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Oilbird videos, photos & sounds on the Internet Bird Collection; The oilbird's visual acuity; Caripe.net – La Puerta de Entrada (in Spanish) Oilbird Caves of Trinidad Accessed 30 March 2011 "Finding the cave-dwelling Oilbird!". YouTube. Toledo Zoo. August 7, 2015. Archived from the original on 2021-12-12. "Oilbird". YouTube. American Bird ...
The Australian boobook (Ninox boobook), is a species of owl native to mainland Australia, southern New Guinea, the island of Timor, and the Sunda Islands.Described by John Latham in 1801, it was generally considered to be the same species as the morepork of New Zealand until 1999.
The genus Morus is much better documented in the fossil record than Sula, though the latter is more numerous today. The reasons are not clear; boobies possibly were better adapted or simply "lucky" to occur in the right places for dealing with the challenges of the Late Pliocene ecological change, or many more fossil boobies could still await ...
The eastern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome filholi), also known as the tawaki piki toka, is a crested penguin with yellow crest feathers. [1] It is a subspecies of the southern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) found in subantarctic regions and the Indian Ocean. [1]