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This is an aggregate group of birds that live in the Arctic. Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. A.
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). The species is strongly migratory , seeing two summers each year as it migrates along a convoluted route from its northern breeding grounds to the Antarctic ...
A high-latitude species, the gyrfalcon breeds on the Arctic coasts and tundra, the islands of northern North America and the Eurosiberian region, where it is mainly a resident species. Some gyrfalcons disperse more widely after the breeding season or in winter, and individual vagrancy can take birds for long distances. Its plumage varies with ...
Larger species, such as the great skua, regularly kill and eat adult seabirds, such as puffins and gulls and have been observed killing birds as large as a grey heron. [5] On the breeding grounds, the three, more slender northern breeding species commonly eat lemmings. Those species that breed in the southern oceans largely feed on fish that ...
The redpoll (Acanthis flammea) is a species of small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae.It is the only species placed in the genus Acanthis.It breeds in the Arctic and north temperate Holarctic tundra and taiga.
The species was formerly placed in the genus Plautus, [11] but in 1973 this name was suppressed by the commission of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature [13] [14] [15] and now the little auk is the only species placed in the genus Alle that was introduced in 1806 by the German naturalist Heinrich Friedrich Link. [16] [17]
Despite the wide distribution of this species there are only very small differences between different phenotypes. [7] Four subspecies are accepted, which differ slightly in the plumage pattern of breeding males: [5] [8] P. n. nivalis (Linnaeus, 1758) – Arctic Europe, Arctic North America. Head white, rump mostly black with a small area of white.
Approximately 40% of the population breeds in the high arctic where the largest colonies are found, 30% in the low arctic, and 30% in boreal waters. In the winter, some of the birds in the high arctic waters are forced south by the winter ice making them seasonal migrants, but in more temperate zones the species is essentially resident.