 海雀 海雀
【English name】 (here using the plural) sea sparrows, sea finches
auks (sea raven and the like), guillemots (guillemot and the like)
【Introduction】 Aves Fringillidae sea gull-shaped head (or go bird subfamily Gull Kehai) birds known.
Membrane before the toes are webbed hind toe absent. Narrow and short wings, short tail. 13 genera and 21 species around the world. Is typical of seabirds. Two-color black and white body feathers, male and female plumage color similar. Usually inhabit the oceans, only breeding season was to shore up the island or land. Ashore roughly upright, shaped like a penguin.
Good at swimming and diving, is generally submerged 10 meters or more. On fish, crustaceans and other marine invertebrates.
Its size, habits are similar to the penguin (but it can fly), is the result of convergent evolution.
】 【Distribution in the Pacific and Atlantic coastal areas of northern breeding and winter when the south to the Mediterranean, California, USA, China Taiwan Province. Puffins breeding clusters, both sexes Baowo brood. Spawning a litter, pear, white, blue, green, and some red spots with Gui. Incubation period of 30 to 36 days.
China has three kinds: flat puffins, puffins and sea birds spotted.
】 【Representative species
First, puffin (sea parrot, puffin), Yiming good to know a bird (good tidings bird). The most common and most striking of a sea bird, mainly living in the North Atlantic sides, such as Iceland, Norway north coast of Iceland, the island habitat of Wisconsin Terman world's largest community of sea birds.
Body length of 30 cm, with a big mouth, triangular, with a deep groove. Black feathers of the back, white belly and feet were orange. Facial colorful: large and bright with a blue and gray beak, yellow and red cheeks are white, so beautiful and lovely as the parrot. Therefore, people call it puffin.
Puffin nesting on the cliffs parents, daily fly fishing in the sea raising offspring. Puffin can dive to at least 57 meters underwater and can stay under water for 60 seconds. When the high latitudes short end of the summer, the new breed of small puffin migration out already.
Second, the sea raven (sea crow), also known as Hai Wu, also located in the North Atlantic, near the North Pole in summer breeding. Back feathers, head and beak is black, belly is white. A knife mouth sea raven sea raven so thick lips. Body in all the most like the sea birds penguins, it was known as "Arctic penguins."
Third, guillemot (sea pigeon), the Atlantic, Pacific regions have. Body length of about 40 ﹎, somewhat similar to an enlarged body type birds dove, white belly, black back, but the wings often white horizontal bands.
Fourth, puffins, China can be seen species. Body dark dirty color, the upper body with gray horizontal stripes and miscellaneous spots. Mouth orange or yellow, the head characteristic with two white stripes. The distinctive feature of breeding birds for the eye brow, white mustache, white lines and patterns right now. Orange beak and feet thick, upper base with a small light-colored horns, puffins hence the name.
Reproduction in the eastern coast of Siberia, northern Japan, the Kuril Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska and the northwestern United States and adjacent waters.
Sometimes in the winter of Port Arthur and other places. |