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This list of birds of Kansas includes species documented in the U.S. state of Kansas and ... Laridae is a family of medium to large seabirds and includes jaegers ...
The brown booby was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux in 1781. [4] The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text. [5]
Seabirds (mostly northern fulmars) flocking at a long-lining vessel. Some seabird species have benefited from fisheries, particularly from discarded fish and offal. These discards compose 30% of the food of seabirds in the North Sea, for example, and compose up to 70% of the total food of some seabird populations. [72]
Ichthyornis (meaning "fish bird", after its fish-like vertebrae) is an extinct genus of toothy seabird-like ornithuran from the late Cretaceous period of North America.Its fossil remains are known from the chalks of Alberta, Alabama, Kansas (Greenhorn Limestone), New Mexico, Saskatchewan, and Texas, in strata that were laid down in the Western Interior Seaway during the Turonian through ...
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The skuas / ˈ s k juː ə / are a group of predatory seabirds with seven species forming the genus Stercorarius, the only genus in the family Stercorariidae.The three smaller skuas, the Arctic skua, the long-tailed skua, and the pomarine skua, are called jaegers in North American English.
Tropicbirds are a family, Phaethontidae, of tropical pelagic seabirds. They are the sole living representatives of the order Phaethontiformes. For many years they were considered part of the Pelecaniformes, but genetics indicates they are most closely related to the Eurypygiformes. There are three species in one genus, Phaethon.
Charadriiformes (/ k ə ˈ r æ d r i. ɪ f ɔːr m iː z /, from Charadrius, the type genus of family Charadriidae) is a diverse order of small to medium-large birds.It includes about 390 species and has members in all parts of the world.