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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 ...
The king eider (pronounced / ˈ aɪ. d ər /) (Somateria spectabilis) is a large sea duck that breeds along Northern Hemisphere Arctic coasts of northeast Europe, North America and Asia. The birds spend most of the year in coastal marine ecosystems at high latitudes, and migrate to Arctic tundra to breed in June and July. They lay four to seven ...
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.
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.
The following is a list of the restricted-range endemic bird species found in the Western Palearctic region: Caucasian black grouse; Caucasian snowcock; Cape Verde swift;