Seabirds

Alaska Seabird Information Series
(ASIS)

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• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements and Credits
• Literature Cited
• Back Cover

TUBENOSE BIRDS

• Black-footed Albatross (Phoebastria nigripes)
• Laysan Albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis)
• Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus)
• Sooty Shearwater (Puffinus griseus)
• Short-tailed Shearwater (Puffinus tenuirostris)
• Northern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis)
• Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel (Oceanodroma furcata)
• Leach's Storm-Petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa)

CORMORANTS

• Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus)
• Pelagic Cormorant (Phalacrocorax pelagicus)
• Red-faced Cormorant (Phalacrocorax urile)
• Brandt's Cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus)

JAEGERS, GULLS, AND TERNS

• Pomarine Jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus)
• Parasitic Jaeger (Stercorarius parasiticus)
• Long-tailed Jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus)
• Bonaparte's Gull (Larus philadelphia)
• Mew Gull (Larus canus)
• Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)
• Slaty-backed Gull (Larus schistasagus)
• Glaucous-winged Gull (Larus glaucescens)
• Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus)
• Sabine’s Gull (Xema sabini)
• Black-legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)
• Red-legged Kittiwake (Rissa brevirostris)
• Caspian Tern ( Hydroprogne caspia)
• Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)
• Aleutian Tern (Onychoprion aleutica)

ALCIDS

• Dovkie (Alle alle)
• Common Murre (Uria aalge)
• Thick-billed Murre (Uria lomvia)
• Black Guillemot (Cepphus grylle)
• Pigeon Guillemot (Cepphus columba)
• Marbled Murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus)
• Kittlitz’s Murrelet (Brachyramphus brevirostris)
• Ancient Murrelet (Synthliboramphus antiquus)
• Cassin's Auklet (Ptychoramphus aleuticus)
• Parakeet Auklet (Aethia psittacula)
• Least Auklet (Aethia pusilla)
• Whiskered Auklet (Aethia pygmaea)
• Crested Auklet (Aethia cristatella)
• Rhinoceros Auklet (Cerorhinca monocerata)
• Horned Puffin (Fratercula corniculata)
• Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata)

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Last Updated: September 18, 2008