Posts Tagged ‘Suliformes’

• Magnificent frigatebird

  Mar 8 | Frigatebirds, Frigatebirds+ | Little Stint | 1157 Views | with Comments Off on Magnificent frigatebird

  Magnificent frigatebird – Fregata magnificens – is the largest frigatebird, they typically breed in American waters but there is a small isolated breeding population around the Cape Verde Islands. In the AWB Region it...

• Pygmy cormorant

  Sep 3 | Cormorants, Cormorants+ | Little Stint | 1228 Views | with Comments Off on Pygmy cormorant

  Pygmy cormorant – Microcarbo pygmaeus – it is a small resident/migratory Eurasian cormorant of Type – seabird, Family Phalacrocoracidae and Order Suliformes. It is native to SE Europe and SW Asia, in a complex...

• Lesser frigatebird

  Mar 17 | Frigatebirds, Frigatebirds+ | Little Stint | 1337 Views | with Comments Off on Lesser frigatebird

  Lesser frigatebird – Fregata ariel – is the smallest of the oceanic worldwide Frigatebirds and is of Type – seabird, Family Fregatidae and Order Suliformes. It is found over the tropical oceans of the world. In...

• Great frigatebird

  Mar 17 | Frigatebirds, Frigatebirds+ | Little Stint | 1423 Views | with Comments Off on Great frigatebird

  Great frigatebird – Fregata minor – is a large oceanic bird of the world’s tropical oceans, it is of Type – seabird, Family Fregatidae and Order Suliformes. In the AWB Region it is found in the offshore...

• Fregatidae – Frigatebirds+

  Mar 17 | Fregatidae, Frigatebirds+ | Little Stint | 1388 Views | with Comments Off on Fregatidae – Frigatebirds+

  Fregatidae – Frigatebirds+ is a Family of large predatory oceanic birds of Type – seabird, and Order Suliformes. Outside of the breeding season, they spend most of their lives at sea in the tropical oceans of the...

• Red-footed booby

  Mar 16 | Boobies, Gannets+ | Little Stint | 1493 Views | with Comments Off on Red-footed booby

  Red-footed booby – Sula sula – is a large resident Worldwide seabird, of Type – seabird, Family Sulidae and Order Suliformes. It is found across all the Tropical Oceans of the world. In the AWB Region it is...

• European shag

  Sep 13 | Cormorants+, Shags | Little Stint | 1712 Views | with Comments Off on European shag

  The European shag – Gulosus aristotelis is a medium/large cormorant species of Type – seabird, Family Phalacrocoracidae and Order Suliformes. It is a coastal European marine species seldom found far inland from the...

• Long-tailed cormorant

  Sep 13 | Cormorants, Cormorants+ | Little Stint | 1604 Views | with Comments Off on Long-tailed cormorant

  The Long-tailed cormorant – Microcarbo africanus – or Reed Cormorant, is a small African cormorant of Type – seabird, Family Phalacrocoracidae and Order Suliformes. It is resident and common in freshwater...

• Anhingidae – darters+

  Sep 12 | Anhingidae, Darters+ | Little Stint | 1632 Views | with Comments Off on Anhingidae – darters+

  The Anhingidae – Darters+ or Anhingidae – Anhingas / Darters are a family of large long necked water birds, sometimes called Snakebirds, of the Order Suliformes, they are of Type – waterbird. Under current...

• African darter

  Sep 12 | Darters, Darters+ | Little Stint | 1680 Views | with Comments Off on African darter

  The African Darter – Anhinga rufa – is a large Tropical water species of Type – waterbird, Family Anhingidae and Order Suliformes. Members are found in Tropical countries world wide, but the one relevant to the...