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Category: Seabirds
European Herring Gull
A large gray-backed gull with white head and pink legs, noisy and adaptable.
Great Black-backed Gull
The largest gull, with a black back and heavy bill, a powerful predator.
Black-headed Gull
A small graceful gull with a brown summer hood and red bill and legs.
Arctic Tern
A small tern famous for the longest migration of any bird, from Arctic to Antarctic.
Common Tern
A graceful white tern with a black cap and deeply forked tail, diving for fish.
Black-browed Albatross
A large seabird with long narrow wings, dark eyebrow and a huge wingspan, soaring over oceans.
Wandering Albatross
One of the largest flying birds with the longest wingspan, gliding for hours without flapping.
Blue-footed Booby
A seabird with bright blue feet, performing a characteristic courtship dance.
Brown Booby
A dark seabird with a yellow bill, plunge-diving for fish.
Great Frigatebird
A black seabird with a huge red throat pouch in males, robbing other birds of food.
Great Cormorant
A large black waterbird that dives for fish and spreads wings to dry.
Atlantic Puffin
A colorful seabird with a large orange striped bill, nesting on northern cliffs.
Rhinoceros Auklet
A seabird with a small horn on its bill, nesting in burrows on Pacific islands.
Great Skua
A large dark seabird that pirates food from other birds, powerful and aggressive.
Emperor Penguin
The largest penguin, breeding on Antarctic sea ice during the dark winter.
King Penguin
A large elegant penguin with vivid orange patches on head and neck.
Adelie Penguin
A small black-and-white penguin of the Antarctic coast, with a distinct white eye ring.
Gentoo Penguin
A penguin with a white stripe across the top of the head and an orange bill.
Brown Pelican
A large gray-brown pelican with an enormous throat pouch, plunge-diving for fish.
Great White Pelican
A huge white pelican with a large bill pouch, fishing cooperatively in flocks.
