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Adelie penguins in Antarctica. This is a list of the bird species recorded in Antarctica.The avifauna of Antarctica include a total of 63 species, of which 1 is endemic.This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 2022 edition.
At least 235 marine species are found in both Antarctica and the Arctic, ranging in size from whales and birds to small marine snails, sea cucumbers, and mud-dwelling worms. The large animals often migrate between the two, and smaller animals are expected to be able to spread via underwater currents. [ 8 ]
This is a list of the bird species recorded of British Antarctic Territory.The avifauna of British Antarctic Territory include a total of 98 species.. This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 2022 edition.
Pages in category "Birds of Antarctica" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. '
Pages in category "Important Bird Areas of Antarctica" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 250 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The South Georgia pipit (Anthus antarcticus) is a sparrow-sized bird only found on the South Georgia archipelago off the Antarctic Peninsula. It is the only songbird in Antarctica, South Georgia's only passerine, and one of the few non-seabirds of the region. It builds nests from dried grass, usually within tussac grass, and lays four eggs a ...
List of birds of Antarctica; List of birds of Asia; List of birds of Australia; List of birds of Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica; E. List of birds of Europe; N.
The species was also included by John Latham in his A General Synopsis of Birds. [5] When the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin updated Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae in 1789 he included a brief description of the Antarctic petrel, coined the binomial name Procellaria antarctica and cited the earlier authors. [6]