Waterbird Orders is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers the bird orders whose members live on or beside water, such as the pelicans, herons and ibises, the loons, the grebes, the storks and the petrels and albatrosses of the open ocean. An entry belongs here when its own cited article describes the order as waterbirds, aquatic birds, aquatic diving birds, wading birds or seabirds. It excludes the ducks and geese, which have their own group, and orders of land birds. Waterbirds feed on fish and other aquatic animals and have bodies shaped for swimming, diving or wading, so the group collects the branches of the bird family tree that returned to the water.
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Pelecaniformes (Wikipedia)
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The Pelecaniformes are an order of medium-sized and large waterbirds found worldwide.
Wikipedia: Gaviiformes
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Gaviiformes () is an order of aquatic birds containing the loons or divers and their closest extinct relatives.
Grebe, Wikipedia
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Grebes () are aquatic diving birds in the order Podicipediformes ().
Wikipedia: Stork
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Storks are large, long-legged, long-necked wading birds with long, stout bills.
Procellariiformes (Wikipedia)
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Procellariiformes is an order of seabirds that comprises four families; the albatrosses, the petrels and shearwaters, and two families of storm petrels.
Phoenicopteriformes (Wikipedia)
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Phoenicopteriformes is a group of water birds which comprises flamingos and their extinct relatives.
Suliformes, Wikipedia
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The order Suliformes (, dubbed "Phalacrocoraciformes" by Christidis & Boles 2008) is an order of birds that includes gannets, boobies, frigatebirds, cormorants and darters.
Wikipedia: Phaethontiformes
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They contain one extant family, the tropicbirds (Phaethontidae), and one extinct family Prophaethontidae from the early Cenozoic.
Charadriiformes (Wikipedia)
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Most charadriiform birds live near water and eat invertebrates or other small animals; however, some are pelagic (seabirds), others frequent deserts, and a few are found in dense forest. Members of this group can also collectively be referred to as shorebirds.
Animal Diversity Web: Sphenisciformes (penguins)
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Penguins dive well and use their flippers to swim underwater in pursuit of prey items.
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