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Seabirds also almost always have webbed feet, to aid movement on the surface as well as assisting diving in some species. The Procellariiformes are unusual among birds in having a strong sense of smell , which is used to find widely distributed food in a vast ocean, [ 22 ] and help distinguish familiar nest odours from unfamiliar ones.
Gannets are seabirds comprising the genus Morus in the family Sulidae, closely related to boobies.They are known as 'solan' or 'solan goose' in Scotland. A common misconception is that the Scottish name is 'guga' but this is the Gaelic name referring to the chicks only.
Several species are among the most common of seabirds, including Wilson's storm petrel (an estimated 12 to 30 million individuals) [91] and the short-tailed shearwater (23 million individuals); [92] while the total population of some other species is a few hundred.
One species, Miomancalla howardae, is the largest charadriiform of all time. [11] Razorbills are an auk found in the Atlantic Ocean. The family contains 25 extant or recently extinct species that are divided into 11 genera. [2]
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The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the diving petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters.This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes (or tubenoses), which also includes the albatrosses and the storm petrels.
Breeding seabird populations face a growing list of threats, including climate change impacts, overfishing and entanglement in fishing gear. Five seabird species added to UK’s ‘red list’ for ...
Plunge-diving is a special form of foraging that involves a transition from air to water. [citation needed] Plunge-diving birds are notable for their beaks, necks, and morphing wings. Plunge-diving birds generally have a higher beak angle ratio than others. [5] Beak angle ratio is defined as the top angle divided by the side angle.