Seabirds
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Raft of coastal seabirds (Puffinus puffinus) rafting.
The sooty tern is highly aerial and marine, spending months flying at sea, returning to land only for breeding.
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.
Wilson's storm petrels pattering on the water's surface.
An African penguin skeleton, showing the sternal keel that makes the species a strong diver and swimmer.
Northern gannet pair "billing" during courtship; like all seabirds except the phalaropes they maintain a pair bond throughout the breeding season.
Common murres breed on densely packed colonies on offshore rocks, islands and cliffs.
Arctic terns breed in the arctic and subarctic and winter in Antarctica.
Seabirds (mostly northern fulmars) flocking at a long-lining vessel.
Depiction of a pelican with chicks on a stained glass window, Saint Mark's Church, Gillingham, Kent.
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