Size: small, slender bodied. Plumage: bright metallic wing speculum in both male and female; wings long and pointed; ... [details]
Length: 44-48 cm. Plumage: brownish grey with wide pale edges to body feathers giving a scalloped appearance, head ... [details]
Length: 34-38 cm. Plumage: above and below vermiculated grey; head chestnut with irridescent green band from lores ... [details]
Length: 43-48 cm. Plumage: above and below dark brown with wide buffy feather edges giving a scalloped appearance; ... [details]
Length: 45-51 cm. Plumage: body vermiculated grey; head chestnut with buffy-cream forehead and crown and pinkish ... [details]
Length: 37-41 cm. Plumage: Breeding male vermiculated grey flanks, dark back, mottled brown breast; Head, neck and ... [details]
Length: 51-63 cm. Plumage: dark brownish grey with broad paler edging to feathers giving scaley appearance; head ... [details]
Size: medium. Other details: bill with curving lower mandible separated from upper by a gap with only tips meeting. [details]
Length: 81-94 cm. Plumage: brownish black with a green gloss on chest, neck and mantle. Immature as adult. Bare ... [details]
Size: large. Resemble cormorants but slimmer. Head small; bill long, slender, pointed bill without hook; neck long ... [details]
Length: 71-79 cm. Plumage: male largely black with greenish gloss; foreneck chestnut with a white lateral stripe; ... [details]
Size: very large, 1.0-1.3 m tall. Plumage: yellow on upper breast. Bare parts: bill long, slender, pointed, ... [details]
Length: 94 cm. Plumage: Head, wings and tail black; belly white; back blue-grey; black line from back of head ... [details]
Size: medium to large. Plumage: with lanceolate crest and scapular plumes. [details]
Length: 90-100cm. Plumage: Generally grey with head, lower neck and underparts white; black stripe over eye ending ... [details]
Length: 120-152 cm. Plumage: grey back; chestnut head, neck and belly; foreneck and breast white streaked black. ... [details]
Length: 84-97 cm. Plumage: general colour grey; top of head, occipital plumes and neck black; foreneck white; ... [details]
Length: 79-89 cm. Plumage: brownish grey above, rufous and black below; crown black; neck rufous with black stripes ... [details]
Size: small, stocky. Plumage: cryptic on ground, white on wings shows on takeoff. Othe details: legs short; claws long. [details]
Length: 45-48 cm. Plumage: dark brown above heavily streaked with black; dull brown heavily streaked black on ... [details]
Length: 43-46 cm. Plumage: breeding buffy brown above white below; crest, head, breast and upper back pale with ... [details]
Size: small to medium. Plumage: crest on head; adult plumage barred below, immature streaked; wings long and pointed. ... [details]
Length: 40 cm. Plumage: brownish grey above, greyer on throat and breast; belly and underwing white barred rufuos; ... [details]
Size: medium. Plumage: mostly prown with bronze and greenish inidescence, especially on wing coverts. Other ... [details]
Length: 76-89 cm. Plumage: dark brownish grey with green iridescence on wing coverts and bronze gloss on back; ... [details]
Size: small, stocky. Plumage: white with buff in breeding plumage. Other details: bills short and stout; follow ... [details]
Length: 50-56 cm. Plumage: white in non- and white with buff plumes on crown, back and breast in breeding season. ... [details]
Very similar to Pterodroma, but with more wedge-shaped tails. [details]
Size: small and stocky. Other details: short legs; short heavy necks; large bill; strongly curved claws. [details]
Length: 40-41 cm. Plumage: general colour blackish green; grey below; throat white; buff to chestnut line down ... [details]
Medium-sized shearwaters. Bill long, strong, pale in colour with nasal tubes not bevelled, opening forward. Tarsus ... [details]
Size: medium to large. Plumage: mainly black and white. Other details: fly with neck fully extended. Highly gregarious. [details]
Length: 86 cm. Plumage: glossy black with a wooly white neck and head. Immature blackish brown above, pale sooty ... [details]
Medium-sized, stocky, fulmarine petrel. Plumage pied. Bill broad with nasal tube relatively short, aperture appears ... [details]
Large, white-bodied birds with black or black and white wings. Twelve tail feathers. <388> [details]
Length: 89-99 cm; wingspan: 198-244 cm. Colour: Adult: Head and body white, with a grey nape, mantle, cheeks and ... [details]
Length: 74–86 cm; wingspan: 178–206 cm. Colour: Adult: head, nape and mantle white with a grey wash; dark brown ... [details]
Length: 71-82 cm; wingspan: 214 cm. Colour: Adult: Head and throat pale bluish-grey; underparts whiite; mantle and ... [details]
Length: 120-130 cm; wingspan: 272-328 cm. Colour: Adult: This plumage attained in a minimum of five years. Mostly ... [details]
Length: 81-95 cm; Wingspan: 214-244 cm. Colour: Adult: Body white; upper wing black, under wing white with black ... [details]
Size: small to medium. Plumage: white or with white phase; long lanceolate plumes variously on crown, nape, back ... [details]
Length: 85-95. Plumage: White; long white back plumes in breeding adult. Immature like non-breeding adult. Bare ... [details]
Length: 48-66 cm. Plumage: slaty-black; heavy, shaggy crest. Immature like adult but duller without head-plumes. ... [details]
Length: 55-65 cm Plumage: white. Dark morph varies from bluish grey to black. Long plumes on head neck and back ... [details]
Length: 55-66 cm. Plumage: white or blackish with white chin; two long narrow plumes on occiput, scapular aigrettes ... [details]
Length: 61-69 cm. Plumage: white; long plumes on back and breast when breeding. Immature like non-breeding adult. ... [details]
Size: medium. Plumage: yellow or red plumes on sides of head. Bare parts: bill and feet red. [details]
Length: 66-76 cm. Plumage: adult with head, throat, back, wings, tail and undertail coverts black, breast and belly ... [details]
Size: small to medium. Plumage; head often with moustacial streaks; wings long and pointed; tails medium to long. ... [details]
Length: 33-36 cm. Plumage: uniform slate grey with black wingtips and malar stripe; wings long and narrow. Immature ... [details]
Length: 36-40 cm. Plumage: dark slate grey above, rich rufous streaked with black below (rare dark morph appears ... [details]
Size: large. Other details: very long pointed wings sharply bent at carpal joint; long deeply forked tail; short ... [details]
Length: 71-81 cm. Plumage: Generally black; male with white patches on upper flanks extending into wing linings; ... [details]
Length: 86-100 cm. Plumage: Male entirely black. Female black with grey throat, white breast. Immature brown; head ... [details]
Small petrels. Wings long. Tails very slightly forked. Legs shorter, feet not projecting beyond tail-tip. Plumage ... [details]
Size: medium. Plumage: short, very broad, rounded wings; short rounded tail about half of wing length. Other ... [details]
Length: 60 cm. Plumage: white with black back, secondaries and tail; tail tipped white, primaries tipped black. ... [details]
Size: large to very large. Plumage: wings long and broad, tail short. Other details: bill large and strong; tarsus ... [details]
Length: 63-73 cm. Plumage: Head and tail white; back and wings black; wing coverts, belly and crissum dark chestnut. ... [details]
Small-sized. Tail square-cut. Resemble prions, but wings more narrow and pointed than prions with outer 2 primaries ... [details]
Size: small. Plumage: feathers of neck very long; colour patterns variable but immatures and some females heavily ... [details]
Length: 27-38 cm. Plumage: male greenish black on crown and back; wings buff; neck and wing patches ashy buff or ... [details]
Size: medium, slender, lightly built. Plumage: thick velvety feathers on lores; wing long, narrow and pointed; some ... [details]
Length: 45 cm. Plumage: Blackish brown with very faint barring on tail and crest on head; throat with varying amounts ... [details]
Largest of the Procellariidae—as large as the smaller albatrosses. Bills robust, longer than the head with large ... [details]
Size: large kite. Plumage: variable, brown or rufous; tail forked, wings rather long with rounded tips. Other ... [details]
Length: 51-60 cm. Plumage: brown with slightly forked tail. Immature paler below with distinct streaks. Bare parts: ... [details]
Size: medium. Plumage: mainly white with red or pink and black in wings. Other details: naked head or face; bill ... [details]
Length: 95-105 cm. Plumage: pinkish white with black wings and tail. Immature greyish brown. Bare parts: iris ... [details]
Size: very small. Plumage: mostly white and glossy green. Other details: short conical shaped bills; whistling ... [details]
Length: 31-36 cm. Plumage: dark green above with a white face and neck; green patches on sides of neck in breeding ... [details]
Size: medium. Plumage: crest short with long plumes arising from rear; adult black, grey and white; immatures brown ... [details]
Length: 56-61 cm. Plumage: back and crown black; wings, rump and tail grey; face, foreneck and underparts white; ... [details]
Very small petrels. Wings long. Tail square-shaped with white coverts. Plumage mostly black but sometimes white on ... [details]
Palearctic migrant. Distribution: open Western Indian Ocean <388> [details]
Males hold tails stiffly erect. Bills of breeding males blue. Swim with head and neck low in water. Good divers; ... [details]
Small petrels. Blue -grey above, white below, with dark M-marks on upper wings (from behind) formed by blackish ... [details]
Size: large. Plumage: mainly white and brown; wings long. Other details: eyes large and directed foreword with no ... [details]
Length: 55-58 cm. Plumage: dark brown above, white below; facial mast brown; dusky streaks form an irregular band ... [details]
Large storm-petrels. Wings long. Tail slightly forked. Legs long, project beyond tail-tip. Plumage grey and white. ... [details]
Size: very large to enormous. Plumage: silky; white or grey with some black. Other details: wings long, tail very ... [details]
Size: 140-178 cm. Plumage: white; breeding birds have pinkish tinge; back of head with small crest; primaries, ... [details]
Length: 135-152 cm. Plumage: greyish white with a pink tinge; fairly prominent crest; breast feather long and ... [details]
Large, somewhat stout wih short pointed wings. Bill slightly decurved and pointed with serrate edges. Legs very ... [details]
Length: (excluding streamers) 50-55 cm. Colour: adult: white with uneven black barring on back, rump and inner wing ... [details]
Length: (excluding tail streamers) 38-43 cm. Colour: adult white with wing-tip, diagonal bar on the wing coverts, ... [details]
Length: (excluding streamers) 46-50 cm. Colour: adult white with a pink wash; a black crescent through the eye and ... [details]
Size: Medium to large. Plumage: mostly black; feathers not fully water-proof resulting in birds standing for ... [details]
Length: 51-60 cm Plumage: generally black with a faint greenish gloss; feathers from back to upper tail coverts ... [details]
Length: 61-64 cm. Plumage: Black. Bare parts: iris turquoise; face and gular skin yellow to yellow-orange; bill legs ... [details]
Length: 80-100 cm. Plumage: generally black with a greenish gloss; cheeks, throat to upper breast white; thigh ... [details]
Size: medium to large. Plumage: black with purple gloss; white filoplumes on head and neck when breeding. Immature ... [details]
Wholly sooty brown, smaller and more elegant than Diomedea spp. <388> [details]
Length: 81-87 cm; wingspan: 204 cm. Colour: Adult: uniformly dark sooty brown with a slightly darker head; bill black ... [details]
Size: small, less than 1 m tall. Plumage: deep pink, crimson and black. Other details: deep-keeled bill with upper ... [details]
Length: 81-90 cm <391>; 121-126 cm <393>. Plumage: generally deep rich pink; wings black and red in flight. Immature ...393>391> [details]