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.
