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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 … See more
There exists no single definition of which groups, families and species are seabirds, and most definitions are in some way arbitrary. Elizabeth Shreiber and Joanne Burger, two seabird scientists, said, "The one common … See more
The following are the groups of birds normally classed as seabirds.
Sphenisciformes (Antarctic and southern waters; 16 species)
• Spheniscidae penguins
Procellariiformes (Tubenoses: pan-oceanic and pelagic; 93 … See moreSeabirds, by virtue of living in a geologically depositional environment (that is, in the sea where sediments are readily laid down), are well represented in the fossil record. … See more
• Furness, R. W. (2012). Seabird Ecology. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-1-4613-2093-7. See more
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