- bird
family Sulidae comprises the
gannets and boobies.
Collectively called sulids, they are medium-large
coastal seabirds that plunge-dive for fish and similar...
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using their wings or feet for propulsion,
while aerial predators such as
sulids,
kingfishers and
terns plunge dive
after their prey. Flamingos,
three species...
-
million years ago, and that the
Cretaceous fossils represent ancestral sulids, "pelecaniforms" or "higher waterbirds"; at
least the last
lineage is generally...
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using their wings or feet for propulsion,
while aerial predators such as
sulids,
kingfishers and
terns plunge dive
after their prey. Flamingos,
three species...
- are
wanting on the ground.
Frigatebirds were
grouped with cormorants, and
sulids (gannets and boobies) as well as
pelicans in the
genus Pelec**** by Linnaeus...
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webbed feet. This
early definition included frigatebirds, cormorants, and
sulids, as well as pelicans. The
family Pelecanidae was
introduced (as Pelicanea)...
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recognised as
distinct genetically and
behaviorally in 2002. It has a
typical sulid body shape, with a long
pointed orange-yellow bill, long neck, aerodynamic...
- stay
aloft for more than a w****. Order: Suliformes Family:
Sulidae The
sulids comprise the
gannets and boobies. Both
groups are
medium to
large coastal...
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There were also
noble Iranian families Barmakids (from Balkh) and the
Sulids (from Gurgan). The
descendants of
these Iranians took the
title abnāʾ (أبناء)...
- exceptions, like the C****in's auklet), and many
species (like the
tubenoses and
sulids) will only lay one egg a year. Care of
young is protracted,
extending for...
