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Like many birds, seabirds often migrate after the breeding season. Of these, the trip taken by the Arctic tern is the farthest of any bird, crossing the equator in order to spend the Austral summer in Antarctica. Other species also undertake trans-equatorial trips, both from the north to the south, and from south to north.
Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Help Subcategories. This category has the following 18 subcategories, out of 18 total. A ... Birds of subantarctic islands (4 C, 56 P)
Appearance. move to sidebar hide. In this list of birds by common name 11,278 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. [1] ...
piscivores: birds that forage for and eat fish and other sea life, such as darters, loons, pelicans, penguins and storks. [141] [146] sanguinivores: birds that forage for and drink blood, such as oxpeckers and sharp-beaked ground finches. [141] [148] saprovores: birds that forage for and eat decaying flesh , such as vultures and crows. [141]
The food taken by gulls includes fish and marine and freshwater invertebrates, both alive and already dead; terrestrial arthropods and invertebrates such as insects and earthworms; rodents, eggs, carrion, offal, reptiles, amphibians, seeds, fruit, human refuse, and even other birds. No gull species is a single-prey specialist, and no gull ...
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.
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.
Petrels are a paraphyletic group of marine seabirds, sharing a characteristic of a nostril arrangement that results in the name "tubenoses". [2] Petrels include three of the four extant families within the Procellariiformes order, including the Procellariidae (fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the diving petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters), Hydrobatidae (Northern storm petrel), and ...