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Pelicans, Cormorants (Pelecaniformes)
Abbott's Booby
Class: Aves Abbott's Booby
Order: Pelecaniformes
Family: Sulidae
Genus: Papsula
Species: abbotti
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Australasian Gannet
Class: Aves Australasian Gannet
Order: Pelecaniformes Least Concern
Staus: Least Concern
Family: Sulidae
Genus: Morus
Species: serrator
The Australasian Gannet (Morus serrator or Sula bassana, also Australian Gannet) is a large seabird of the gannet family Sulidae.
 
Australian Pelican
Class: Aves Australian Pelican
Order: Pelecaniformes Least Concern
Staus: Least Concern
Family: Pelecanidae
Genus: Pelecanus
Species: conspicillatus
The Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus) is a large water bird, widespread on the inland and coastal waters of Australia and New Guinea, also in Fiji, parts of Indonesia and as a vagrant to New Zealand.
 
Black-faced Cormorant
Class: Aves Black-faced Cormorant
Order: Pelecaniformes Least Concern
Staus: Least Concern
Family: Phalacrocoracidae
Genus: Phalacrocorax
Species: fuscescens
The Black-faced Cormorant (Phalacrocorax fuscescens), also known as the Black-faced Shag, is a medium-sized member of the cormorant family. Upperparts, including facial skin and bill, are black, with white underparts.
 
Brown Booby
Class: Aves Brown Booby
Order: Pelecaniformes Least Concern
Staus: Least Concern
Family: Sulidae
Genus: Sula
Species: leucogaster
The Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster) is a large seabird of the gannet family, Sulidae. The adult brown booby reaches about 76 cm. (30 in.) in length. Its head and upper body are covered in dark brown, with the remainder being a contrasting white. The juvenile form is gray-brown with darkening on the head, wings and tail. While these birds are typically silent, bird watchers have reported occasional sounds similar to grunting or quacking.
 
Cape Gannet
Class: Aves Cape Gannet
Order: Pelecaniformes Vulnerable
Staus: Vulnerable
Family: Sulidae
Genus: Morus
Species: capensis
The Cape Gannet (Morus capensis, originally Sula capensis) is a large seabird of the gannet family, Sulidae.
 
Christmas Frigatebird
Class: Aves Christmas Frigatebird
Order: Pelecaniformes
Family: Fregatidae
Genus: Fregata
Species: andrewsi
The Christmas Island frigatebird (Fregata andrewsi) is a frigatebird endemic to the Christmas Islands in the Indian Ocean. Like other frigatebirds, this species does not walk or swim, but is a very aerial bird which obtains its food by picking up live prey items from beaches or the water surface, and the aerial piracy of other birds.
 
Darter
Class: Aves Darter
Order: Pelecaniformes Near Threatened
Staus: Near Threatened
Family: Anhingidae
Genus: Anhinga
Species: melanogaster
The Oriental Darter or Indian Darter (Anhinga melanogaster ), sometimes called Snakebird, is a water bird of tropical South Asia and Southeast Asia. It is a cormorant-like species that has a very long neck. It often swims with only the neck above water. It is a fish-eater.
 
Great Cormorant
Class: Aves Great Cormorant
Order: Pelecaniformes Least Concern
Staus: Least Concern
Family: Phalacrocoracidae
Genus: Phalacrocorax
Species: carbo
The Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), known in Australia as the Black Cormorant, is a widespread member of the cormorant family of seabirds. It breeds in much of the Old World and the Atlantic coast of North America.
 
Great Frigatebird
Class: Aves Great Frigatebird
Order: Pelecaniformes Least Concern
Staus: Least Concern
Family: Fregatidae
Genus: Fregata
Species: minor
The Great Frigatebird (Fregata minor) is a large dispersive seabird in the frigatebird family. Major nesting populations are found in the Pacific (including Galapagos Islands) and Indian Oceans, as well as a population in the South Atlantic. It feeds on fish taken in flight from the ocean's surface (mostly flyingfish), and indulges in kleptoparasitism less frequently than other frigatebirds. They feed in pelagic waters within 80 km of their breeding colony or roosting areas. In Hawaii this species is also known as the Iwa.
 
Imperial Shag
Class: Aves Imperial Shag
Order: Pelecaniformes Least Concern
Staus: Least Concern
Family: Phalacrocoracidae
Genus: Leucocarbo
Species: atriceps
The Imperial Shag, Phalacrocorax atriceps, is a cormorant native to many islands of the Southern Hemisphere. It is sometimes separated in the genus Leucocarbo. It is also known as the Blue-eyed Shag and by many other names (11 just for the South American race), and is one of a larger group of cormorants called blue-eyed shags.[1]
 
Lesser Frigatebird
Class: Aves Lesser Frigatebird
Order: Pelecaniformes Least Concern
Staus: Least Concern
Family: Fregatidae
Genus: Fregata
Species: ariel
The Lesser Frigatebird Fregata ariel is a species of frigatebird.
 
Little Black Cormorant
Class: Aves Little Black Cormorant
Order: Pelecaniformes Least Concern
Staus: Least Concern
Family: Phalacrocoracidae
Genus: Phalacrocorax
Species: sulcirostris
The Little Black Cormorant, Phalacrocorax sulcirostris, is a member of the cormorant family of seabirds. It is common in smaller rivers and lakes throughout most areas of Australia. It is around sixty centimetres long, and is all black with blue-green eyes.
 
Little Pied Cormorant
Class: Aves Little Pied Cormorant
Order: Pelecaniformes Least Concern
Staus: Least Concern
Family: Phalacrocoracidae
Genus: Phalacrocorax
Species: melanoleucos
The Little Pied Cormorant, Little Shag or Kawaupaka (Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) is a common Australasian waterbird, found around the coasts, islands, estuaries, and inland waters of Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, and around the islands of the south-western Pacific and the sub-Antarctic.
 
Masked Booby
Class: Aves Masked Booby
Order: Pelecaniformes Least Concern
Staus: Least Concern
Family: Sulidae
Genus: Sula
Species: dactylatra
The Masked Booby, Sula dactylatra, is a large seabird of the gannet family, Sulidae. This species breeds on islands in tropical oceans, except in the eastern Atlantic; in the eastern Pacific it is replaced by the Nazca Booby, Sula granti, which was formerly regarded as a subspecies of Masked Booby (Pitman & Jehl 1998, Friesen et al. 2002).
 
Pied Cormorant
Class: Aves Pied Cormorant
Order: Pelecaniformes Least Concern
Staus: Least Concern
Family: Phalacrocoracidae
Genus: Phalacrocorax
Species: varius
The Pied Cormorant (Phalacrocorax varius) is a medium-sized member of the cormorant family. It is found around the coasts of Australasia. In New Zealand it is usually known as the Pied Shag or by its Maori name of Karuhiruhi. Older sources may refer to it as the "Yellow-faced Cormorant".
 
Red-footed Booby
Class: Aves Red-footed Booby
Order: Pelecaniformes Least Concern
Staus: Least Concern
Family: Sulidae
Genus: Sula
Species: sula
The Red-footed Booby, Sula sula is a large seabird of the gannet family, Sulidae.
 
Red-tailed Tropicbird
Class: Aves Red-tailed Tropicbird
Order: Pelecaniformes Least Concern
Staus: Least Concern
Family: Phaethonidae
Genus: Phaethon
Species: rubricauda
The Red-tailed Tropicbird, Phaethon rubricauda, is a seabird that nests across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the rarest of the tropicbirds, yet is still a widespread bird that is not considered threatened. It nests in colonies on oceanic islands.
 
Tasman Booby
Class: Aves Tasman Booby
Order: Pelecaniformes
Family: Sulidae
Genus: Sula
Species: tasmani
The Tasman Booby (Sula (dactylatra) tasmani) was a large seabird of the gannet family, Sulidae, described from bones found on Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands in the Tasman Sea (van Tets et al 1988) that was believed to have become extinct in the late 18th Century or early 19th Century on Lord Howe Island because of predation by visiting sailors, with the last sight record dating from 1788, being already extinct on Norfolk Island.
 
White-tailed Tropicbird
Class: Aves White-tailed Tropicbird
Order: Pelecaniformes Least Concern
Staus: Least Concern
Family: Phaethonidae
Genus: Phaethon
Species: lepturus
The White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus, is a tropicbird, smallest of three closely related seabirds of the tropical oceans and smallest member of the order Pelecaniformes. It occurs in the tropical Atlantic, western Pacific and Indian Oceans. It also breeds on some Caribbean islands, and a few pairs have started nesting recently on Little Tobago, joining the Red-billed Tropicbird colony. In addition to the tropical Atlantic, it nests as far north as Bermuda, where it is locally called a "Longtail".
 
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