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- Seabirds are birds that spend some part of their lives living on and feeding in the sea. They include petrels, albatrosses, shearwaters, penguins, gannets, boobies, tropicbirds, frigatebirds, shags (or cormorants), auks, skuas, gulls, terns and noddies.
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Which is the most common seabird? Gulls or seagulls are the most common seabird. They are not afraid of people and will often venture into cities. You know you’re nearing the beach when you hear their squawking call. What are common beach birds? Sanderlings or sandpipers are small gray and white seabirds with long legs and long thin bills.
Seabirds (also known as marine birds) 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 same environmental problems and feeding niches have resulted in similar adaptations.
Common Murres are dapper, black-and-white seabirds that nest in raucous throngs on crowded sea cliffs. Often described as "flying penguins," they have a tuxedoed look but are actually relatives of auks and puffins.
Some seabird species include pelicans, cormorants, boobies, gannets, puffins, shearwaters, loons, gulls, terns, jaegers, storm-petrels, murres, and frigatebirds. Which is the most common seabird? Gulls are the most common seabirds.
- Booby. Boobies are large seabirds that specialize in diving into the water from extreme heights. There are five types that fly around North America: the blue-footed booby, brown booby, Nazca booby, masked booby, red-footed booby, and the northern gannet.
- Albatross. Albatrosses are some of the largest seabirds in the world, featuring 10-foot wingspans. Eight species are seen around North America’s oceans along the Pacific Coast.
- Skua. Skuas are large, aggressive predators of the open sky over oceans and nearby shorelines. There are two species of skua s in North America, the great skua and the South Polar skua.
- Brown Pelican. The brown pelican is an easily recognizable bird, with its long neck, long bill, and seemingly awkward appearance. They are some of the largest seabirds in North America and can be found on both coasts of the United States.
Seabirds of North America covers a wide range of birds that are found near the coasts and oceans of the continent, varying in size, from the small auklets to the large albatrosses.
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Seabirds are more numerous in polar than in tropical waters, and there is a greater diversity in the southern hemisphere than in the northern, probably because much more of the southern hemisphere consists of ocean. In Canada, the greatest diversity is found off the island of Newfoundland.
