Seabird
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Seabirds are birds that are adapted to life within the marine environment. While seabirds vary greatly in lifestyle, behaviour and physiology, they often exhibit striking convergent evolution, as the
The sooty tern is highly aerial and marine and spends months flying at sea, returning to land only for breeding.
Raft of coastal seabirds Gulf of St. Lawrence, Quebec, Canada
The Cretaceous seabird Hesperornis
Cormorants, like this double-crested cormorant, have plumage that is partly wettable. This functional adaptation balances the competing requirement for thermoregulation against that of the need to reduce buoyancy.
Austral storm petrel
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Austral storm petrels, or southern storm petrels, are seabirds in the family Oceanitidae, part of the order Procellariiformes. These smallest of seabirds feed on planktonic crustaceans and small fish
The white-faced storm petrel moves across the water's surface in a series of bounding leaps.
The New Zealand storm-petrel is critically endangered and was considered extinct
Oceanites oceanicus SE Tasmania