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Waterfowl

Waterfowl

Grey duck
Kerguelen pintail
Speckled teal
Yellow-billed pintail

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Seabirds
  • Albatrosses
    • Black-browed albatross
    • Grey-headed albatross
    • Light-mantled sooty albatross
    • Sooty albatross
    • Wandering albatross
    • White-capped albatross
    • Yellow-nosed albatross
  • Fulmars
    • Antarctic petrel
    • Antarctic prion
    • Blue petrel
    • Broad-billed prion
    • Cape petrel
    • Fairy prion
    • Fulmar prion
    • Great shearwater
    • Snow petrel
  • Storm-petrels
    • Wilson’s storm-petrel
  • Diving petrels
  • Cormorants
    • Antarctic shag
    • Imperial shag
  • Waterfowl
    • Yellow-billed pintail
  • Sheathbills
    • Snowy sheathbill
  • Skuas
  • Terns
    • Antarctic tern
    • Kerguelen tern

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