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.
Penguin
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Penguins are a group of flightless semi-aquatic sea birds which live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere. Only one species, the Galapagos penguin, lives at, and slightly north of, the equato
Seabird
…seabirds share is that they feed in saltwater; but, as seems to be true with any statement in biology, some do not." However, by convention, all of the Sphenisciformes (penguins), all of the Phaethontiformes (tropicbirds), all of the Procellariiformes (albatrosses and petrels), all of the Suliformes (gannets, boobies, frigatebirds…
South Shetland 2016 Deception Island–Chinstrap penguin 04
Penguin tracks in the sand on Bruny Island, Tasmania
The endangered Galapagos penguin. The penguin is an accomplished swimmer, having flippers instead of wings.
Taxidermized penguin skin