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28 relations: Animal, Australia, Bird, Bird nest, Blue-eyed shag, Caruncle (bird anatomy), Chordate, Cormorant, Crustacean, Down feather, Echinoderm, Endemism, Golfe du Morbihan (Kerguelen), Guano, Gull, Handbook of the Birds of the World, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Heard Island shag, Imperial shag, Jean Cabanis, Kelp, Kerguelen Islands, Polychaete, Sheathbill, Skua, Southern rockhopper penguin, Suliformes, The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World.
Animal
Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Bird
Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
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Bird nest
A bird nest is the spot in which a bird lays and incubates its eggs and raises its young.
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Blue-eyed shag
The blue-eyed shags are a group of closely related cormorant taxa.
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Caruncle (bird anatomy)
A caruncle is defined as 'a small, fleshy excrescence that is a normal part of an animal's anatomy'.
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Chordate
A chordate is an animal belonging to the phylum Chordata; chordates possess a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail, for at least some period of their life cycle.
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Cormorant
Phalacrocoracidae is a family of approximately 40 species of aquatic birds commonly known as cormorants and shags.
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Crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, woodlice, and barnacles.
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Down feather
The down of birds is a layer of fine feathers found under the tougher exterior feathers.
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Echinoderm
Echinoderm is the common name given to any member of the phylum Echinodermata (from Ancient Greek, ἐχῖνος, echinos – "hedgehog" and δέρμα, derma – "skin") of marine animals.
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Endemism
Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
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Golfe du Morbihan (Kerguelen)
The Golfe du Morbihan (Gulf of Morbihan) is a bay on the eastern coast of Grande Terre, the largest of the Kerguelen islands.
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Guano
Guano (from Quechua wanu via Spanish) is the accumulated excrement of seabirds and bats.
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Gull
Gulls or seagulls are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari.
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Handbook of the Birds of the World
The Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) is a multi-volume series produced by the Spanish publishing house Lynx Edicions in partnership with BirdLife International.
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Heard Island and McDonald Islands
The Territory of Heard Island and McDonald IslandsCIA World Factbook. Accessed 4 January 2009.
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Heard Island shag
The Heard Island shag (Leucocarbo nivalis), or Heard Island cormorant, is a marine cormorant native to the Australian territory comprising the Heard and McDonald Islands in the Southern Ocean, about 4100 km south-west of Perth, Western Australia.
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Imperial shag
The imperial shag (Leucocarbo atriceps) is a black and white cormorant native to southern South America, primarily in rocky coastal regions, but locally also at large inland lakes.
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Jean Cabanis
Jean Louis Cabanis (8 March 1816 – 20 February 1906) was a German ornithologist.
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Kelp
Kelps are large brown algae seaweeds that make up the order Laminariales.
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Kerguelen Islands
The Kerguelen Islands (or; in French commonly Îles Kerguelen but officially Archipel des Kerguelen), also known as the Desolation Islands (Îles de la Désolation in French), are a group of islands in the southern Indian Ocean constituting one of the two exposed parts of the mostly submerged Kerguelen Plateau.
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Polychaete
The Polychaeta, also known as the bristle worms or polychaetes, are a paraphyletic class of annelid worms, generally marine.
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Sheathbill
The sheathbills are a family of birds, Chionidae.
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Skua
The skuas are a group of seabirds with about seven species forming the family Stercorariidae and the genus Stercorarius.
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Southern rockhopper penguin
The southern rockhopper penguin group (Eudyptes chrysocome), are two subspecies of rockhopper penguin, that together are sometimes considered distinct from the northern rockhopper penguin.
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Suliformes
The order Suliformes (dubbed "Phalacrocoraciformes" by Christidis & Boles 2008) is an order recognised by the International Ornithologist's Union.
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The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World
The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World is a book by Jim Clements which presents a list of the bird species of the world.
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Kerguelen Shag, Kerguelen cormorant, Leucocarbo verrucosus, Phalacrocorax verrucosus.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerguelen_shag
