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Birds
Any feathered vertebrate.
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Royal Tern
Animals; Birds
The Royal Tern (Thalasseus maximus, syn. Sterna maxima) is a seabird in the tern family Sternidae. This bird has two distinctive subspecies. T. M. Maximus breeds on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of ...
Black-tailed Gull
Animals; Birds
The Black-tailed Gull (Larus crassirostris) is a medium-sized gull. The bird is resident in East Asia, including China, Taiwan, Japan and Korea.
Audouin's Gull
Animals; Birds
The Audouin's Gull (Ichthyaetus audouinii) is a large gull restricted to the Mediterranean and the western coast of Saharan Africa.
Indian Skimmer
Animals; Birds
The Indian Skimmer (Rynchops albicollis) is a one of the three species that belong to the skimmer family. It is found in southern Asia where it is patchily-distributed and declining in numbers.
African Skimmer
Animals; Birds
The African Skimmer (Rynchops flavirostris) is a skimmer that lives in Senegal to northern Congo River and southern Nile Valley, southern Tanzania to the Zambezi Valley, and then to Natal and Angola.
Black Skimmer
Animals; Birds
The Black Skimmer, Rynchops niger, is a tern-like seabird, one of three very similar birds species in the skimmer family. It breeds in North and South America.
Chinese Crested Tern
Animals; Birds
The Chinese Crested Tern (Thalasseus bernsteini, syn. Sterna bernsteini) is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. It is a critically endangered species, previously thought extinct, with a mere four ...
