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Antarctic shag, Phalacrocorax bransfieldensis. Order: Suliformes Family: Phalacrocoracidae. Phalacrocoracidae is a family of medium to large coastal, fish-eating seabirds that includes cormorants and shags. Plumage colouration varies, with the majority having mainly dark plumage, some species being black-and-white and a few being colourful.
This is a list of the bird species recorded of British Antarctic Territory.The avifauna of British Antarctic Territory include a total of 98 species.. This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 2022 edition.
The adults have white bodies with black and white wings. Males have whiter wings than females, with just the tips and trailing edges of the wings black. The snowy albatross is the whitest of the wandering albatross species complex, the other species having a great deal more brown and black on the wings and body, very closely resembling immature ...
The white-fronted tern is also quite similar to the Antarctic tern but it can be distinguished by the larger body size, lighter colors, and longer black bill of the white-fronted tern. [12] The different subspecies vary in size and plumage tone but are often hard to distinguish from one another.
Pygoscelis contains species with a fairly simple black-and-white head pattern; their distribution is intermediate, centred on Antarctic coasts but extending somewhat northwards from there. In external morphology , these apparently still resemble the common ancestor of the Spheniscinae, as Aptenodytes ' autapomorphies are, in most cases, fairly ...
This is a list of the bird species recorded of French Southern and Antarctic Lands.The avifauna of French Southern and Antarctic Lands include a total of 130 species.. This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 2022 edition.
In 2001, scientist Richard Stone spent five weeks observing the king penguins in the Antarctic and said that "not a single bird fell over after 17 flights." "Some birds waddled away from the ...
This list is based on the Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds list, May 2002 update, with the doubtfuls omitted. It includes the birds of Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica, and the surrounding ocean and subantarctic islands. Australian call-ups are based on the List of Australian birds.