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The sooty tern is highly aerial and marine and spends months flying at sea, returning to land only for breeding. [1] Raft of coastal seabirds [ 2 ] Gulf of St. Lawrence , Quebec , Canada Seabirds (also known as marine birds ) are birds that are adapted to life within the marine environment.
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
In total there are about 10,000 species of birds described worldwide, though one estimate of the real number places it at almost twice that. [1] The order passerines (perching birds) alone accounts for well over 5,000 species. Taxonomy is very fluid in the age of DNA analysis, so comments are made where appropriate, and all numbers are approximate.
The taxonomic treatment [3] (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) used in the accompanying bird lists adheres to the conventions of the AOS's (2019) Check-list of North American Birds, the recognized scientific authority on the taxonomy and nomenclature of North America birds.
The standardization effort was undertaken by a committee of the IOC (the Standing Committee on English Names [1]: 11 ), with regional subcommittees. [2] The Standing Committee was co-chaired by Frank Gill, a professional ornithologist with worldwide research interests and experience, and Minturn Wright, a lawyer and international birder with an interest in nomenclature; these two were the ...
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The Union merged with the Cooper Ornithological Society in 2016 to form the American Ornithological Society. [1] The checklist was first published in 1886; [2] the seventh edition of the checklist was published in 1998 [3] and is now updated every year by an open-access article published in the Ibis. [4]