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98 relations: African penguin, Albatross, American herring gull, Amsterdam albatross, Animal sexual behaviour, Antarctic petrel, Auk, Australia, Bird colony, Bird of prey, Black-browed albatross, Black-faced sheathbill, Black-footed albatross, Black-legged kittiwake, Blue-footed booby, Booby, Brown booby, Brushturkey, Caspian gull, Caspian tern, Charadriiformes, Chinstrap penguin, Common murre, Common tern, Cory's shearwater, Courtship, Divorce, Egg incubation, Egret, Emperor penguin, Emu (journal), Facultative, Female sperm storage, Fitness (biology), Frigatebird, Grackle, Great frigatebird, Great skua, Grey-headed albatross, Gull, Handicap principle, Hawaii, Homosexual behavior in animals, Humboldt penguin, Inbreeding, Inbreeding avoidance, Inbreeding depression, King penguin, Kingfisher, Kure Atoll, ..., Laysan albatross, Lek mating, Little auk, Magellanic penguin, Mating, Mating call, Monogamy, Nazca booby, New Zealand, Nuptial gift, Obligate, Operational sex ratio, Otago Peninsula, Pair bond, Passerine, Pelecaniformes, Penguin, Petrel, Phenology, Philopatry, Phylogenetics, Procellariiformes, Razorbill, Red-footed booby, Reproductive success, Ring-billed gull, Roseate tern, Seabird, Seasonal breeder, Sexual dimorphism, Shearwater, Sheathbill, Short-tailed albatross, Short-tailed shearwater, Siblicide, South Georgia Island, Southern Africa, Southern ground hornbill, Southern royal albatross, Storm petrel, Tern, Wandering albatross, Waved albatross, Western gull, Whiskered tern, White-winged chough, Yellow-eyed penguin, Yellow-legged gull. Expand index (48 more) »
African penguin
The African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), also known as the jackass penguin and black-footed penguin, is a species of penguin, confined to southern African waters.
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Albatross
Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds related to the procellariids, storm petrels and diving petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses).
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American herring gull
The American herring gull or Smithsonian gull (Larus smithsonianus or Larus argentatus smithsonianus) is a large gull that breeds in North America, where it is treated by the American Ornithologists' Union as a subspecies of herring gull (L. argentatus).
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Amsterdam albatross
The Amsterdam albatross or Amsterdam Island albatross, Diomedea amsterdamensis, is a huge albatross which breeds only on Amsterdam Island in the southern Indian Ocean.
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Animal sexual behaviour
Animal sexual behaviour takes many different forms, including within the same species.
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Antarctic petrel
The Antarctic petrel (Thalassoica antarctica) is a boldly marked dark brown and white petrel, found in Antarctica, most commonly in the Ross and Weddell Seas.
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Auk
An auk or alcid is a bird of the family Alcidae in the order Charadriiformes.
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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 colony
A bird colony is a large congregation of individuals of one or more species of bird that nest or roost in proximity at a particular location.
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Bird of prey
A bird of prey, predatory bird, or raptor is any of several species of bird that hunts and feeds on rodents and other animals.
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Black-browed albatross
The black-browed albatross (Thalassarche melanophris), also known as the black-browed mollymawk,Robertson, C. J. R. (2003) is a large seabird of the albatross family Diomedeidae; it is the most widespread and common member of its family.
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Black-faced sheathbill
The black-faced sheathbill (Chionis minor), also known as the lesser sheathbill or paddy bird, is one of only two species of sheathbills, aberrant shorebirds which are terrestrial scavengers of subantarctic islands.
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Black-footed albatross
The black-footed albatross (Phoebastria nigripes) is a large seabird of the albatross family Diomedeidae from the North Pacific.
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Black-legged kittiwake
The black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) is a seabird species in the gull family Laridae.
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Blue-footed booby
The blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii) is a marine bird native to subtropical and tropical regions of the eastern Pacific Ocean.
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Booby
A booby is a seabird in the genus Sula, part of the Sulidae family.
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Brown booby
The brown booby (Sula leucogaster) is a large seabird of the booby family, Sulidae.
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Brushturkey
Brushturkey, brush-turkey or brush turkey generally refer to birds in three genera in the megapode family, and sometimes to other species such as the Australian bustard.
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Caspian gull
The Caspian gull (taxon Larus cachinnans) is a large gull and a member of the herring and lesser black-backed gull complex.
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Caspian tern
The Caspian tern (Hydroprogne caspia) is a species of tern, with a subcosmopolitan but scattered distribution.
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Charadriiformes
Charadriiformes is a diverse order of small to medium-large birds.
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Chinstrap penguin
The chinstrap penguin (Pygoscelis antarcticus) is a species of penguin which inhabits a variety of islands and shores in the Southern Pacific and the Antarctic Ocean.
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Common murre
The common murre or common guillemot (Uria aalge) is a large auk.
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Common tern
The common tern (Sterna hirundo) is a seabird in the family Laridae.
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Cory's shearwater
The Cory's shearwater (Calonectris borealis) is a large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae.
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Courtship
Courtship is the period of development towards an intimate relationship wherein people (usually a couple) get to know each other and decide if there will be an engagement or other romantic arrangement.
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Divorce
Divorce, also known as dissolution of marriage, is the termination of a marriage or marital union, the canceling or reorganizing of the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage, thus dissolving the bonds of matrimony between a married couple under the rule of law of the particular country or state.
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Egg incubation
Incubation refers to the process by which certain oviparous (egg-laying) animals hatch their eggs; it also refers to the development of the embryo within the egg.
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Egret
An egret is any of several herons, most of which are white or buff, and several of which develop fine plumes (usually milky white) during the breeding season.
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Emperor penguin
The emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) is the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species and is endemic to Antarctica.
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Emu (journal)
Emu, subtitled Austral Ornithology, is the peer-reviewed scientific journal of BirdLife Australia (formerly the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union).
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Facultative
Facultative means "optional" or "discretionary" (antonym obligate), used mainly in biology in phrases such as.
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Female sperm storage
Female sperm storage is a biological process and often a type of sexual selection in which sperm cells transferred to a female during mating are temporarily retained within a specific part of the reproductive tract before the oocyte, or egg, is fertilized.
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Fitness (biology)
Fitness (often denoted w or ω in population genetics models) is the quantitative representation of natural and sexual selection within evolutionary biology.
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Frigatebird
Frigatebirds (also listed as "frigate bird", "frigate-bird", "frigate", frigate-petrel") are a family of seabirds called Fregatidae which are found across all tropical and subtropical oceans.
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Grackle
Grackle is the common name of any of eleven passerine birds native to North and South America.
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Great frigatebird
The great frigatebird (Fregata minor) is a large seabird in the frigatebird family.
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Great skua
The great skua (Stercorarius skua) is a large seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae.
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Grey-headed albatross
The grey-headed albatross (Thalassarche chrysostoma) also known as the grey-headed mollymawk, is a large seabird from the albatross family.
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Gull
Gulls or seagulls are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari.
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Handicap principle
The handicap principle is a hypothesis originally proposed in 1975 by Israeli biologist Amotz Zahavi to explain how evolution may lead to "honest" or reliable signaling between animals which have an obvious motivation to bluff or deceive each other.
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Hawaii
Hawaii (Hawaii) is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States, having received statehood on August 21, 1959.
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Homosexual behavior in animals
Homosexual behavior in animals is sexual behavior among non-human species that is interpreted as homosexual or bisexual.
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Humboldt penguin
The Humboldt penguin (Spheniscus humboldti) (also termed Peruvian penguin, or patranca) is a South American penguin that breeds in coastal Chile and Peru.
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Inbreeding
Inbreeding is the production of offspring from the mating or breeding of individuals or organisms that are closely related genetically.
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Inbreeding avoidance
Inbreeding avoidance, or the inbreeding avoidance hypothesis, is a concept in evolutionary biology that refers to the prevention of the deleterious effects of inbreeding.
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Inbreeding depression
Inbreeding depression is the reduced biological fitness in a given population as a result of inbreeding, or breeding of related individuals.
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King penguin
The king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) is a large species of penguin, second only to the emperor penguin in size.
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Kingfisher
Kingfishers or Alcedinidae are a family of small to medium-sized, brightly colored birds in the order Coraciiformes.
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Kure Atoll
(Mokupāpapa) or Ocean Island is an atoll in the Pacific Ocean beyond Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands at.
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Laysan albatross
The Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) is a large seabird that ranges across the North Pacific.
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Lek mating
A lek, from the Swedish word for "play", is an aggregation of male animals gathered to engage in competitive displays, lekking, to entice visiting females which are surveying prospective partners for copulation.
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Little auk
The little auk or dovekie (Alle alle) is a small auk, the only member of the genus Alle.
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Magellanic penguin
The Magellanic penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus) is a South American penguin, breeding in coastal Argentina, Chile and the Falkland Islands, with some migrating to Brazil where they are occasionally seen as far north as Rio de Janeiro.
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Mating
In biology, mating (or mateing in British English) is the pairing of either opposite-sex or hermaphroditic organisms, usually for the purposes of sexual reproduction.
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Mating call
A mating call is the auditory signal used by animals to attract mates.
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Monogamy
Monogamy is a form of relationship in which an individual has only one partner during their lifetime — alternately, only one partner at any one time (serial monogamy) — as compared to non-monogamy (e.g., polygamy or polyamory).
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Nazca booby
The Nazca booby (Sula granti) is a colonial seabird in the family Sulidae, native to the eastern Pacific.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Nuptial gift
Nuptial gifts are food items or inedible tokens that are transferred to females by males during courtship or copulation.
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Obligate
As an adjective, obligate means "by necessity" (antonym facultative) and is used mainly in biology in phrases such as.
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Operational sex ratio
In the evolutionary biology of sexual reproduction, operational sex ratio (OSR) is the ratio of sexually competing males that are ready to mate to sexually competing females that are ready to mate, or alternatively the local ratio of fertilizable females to sexually active males at any given time.
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Otago Peninsula
The Otago Peninsula is a long, hilly indented finger of land that forms the easternmost part of Dunedin, New Zealand.
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Pair bond
In biology, a pair bond is the strong affinity that develops in some species between a pair consisting of a male and female, or in some cases as a same-sex pairing, potentially leading to producing offspring and/or a lifelong bond.
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Passerine
A passerine is any bird of the order Passeriformes, which includes more than half of all bird species.
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Pelecaniformes
The Pelecaniformes are an order of medium-sized and large waterbirds found worldwide.
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Penguin
Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are a group of aquatic, flightless birds.
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Petrel
Petrels are tube-nosed seabirds in the bird order Procellariiformes.
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Phenology
Phenology is the study of periodic plant and animal life cycle events and how these are influenced by seasonal and interannual variations in climate, as well as habitat factors (such as elevation).
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Philopatry
Philopatry is the tendency of an organism to stay in or habitually return to a particular area.
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Phylogenetics
In biology, phylogenetics (Greek: φυλή, φῦλον – phylé, phylon.
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Procellariiformes
Procellariiformes is an order of seabirds that comprises four families: the albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters, and 2 families of storm petrels.
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Razorbill
The razorbill (Alca torda) is a colonial seabird that comes to land only to breed.
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Red-footed booby
The red-footed booby (Sula sula) is a large seabird of the booby family, Sulidae.
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Reproductive success
Reproductive success is defined as the passing of genes onto the next generation in a way that they too can pass on those genes.
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Ring-billed gull
The ring-billed gull (Larus delawarensis) is a medium-sized gull.
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Roseate tern
The roseate tern (Sterna dougallii) is a tern in the family Laridae.
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Seabird
Seabirds (also known as marine birds) are birds that are adapted to life within the marine environment.
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Seasonal breeder
Seasonal breeders are animal species that successfully mate only during certain times of the year.
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Sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where the two sexes of the same species exhibit different characteristics beyond the differences in their sexual organs.
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Shearwater
Shearwaters are medium-sized long-winged seabirds.
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Sheathbill
The sheathbills are a family of birds, Chionidae.
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Short-tailed albatross
The short-tailed albatross or Steller's albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) is a large rare seabird from the North Pacific.
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Short-tailed shearwater
The short-tailed shearwater or slender-billed shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris; formerly Puffinus tenuirostris), also called yolla or moonbird, and commonly known as the muttonbird in Australia, is the most abundant seabird species in Australian waters, and is one of the few Australian native birds in which the chicks are commercially harvested.
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Siblicide
Siblicide (attributed by behavioural ecologist Doug Mock to Barbara M. Braun) is the killing of an infant individual by its close relatives (full or half siblings).
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South Georgia Island
South Georgia is an island in the southern Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
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Southern Africa
Southern Africa is the southernmost region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics, and including several countries.
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Southern ground hornbill
The southern ground hornbill (Bucorvus leadbeateri; formerly known as Bucorvus cafer), is one of two species of ground hornbill and is the largest species of hornbill.
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Southern royal albatross
The southern royal albatross (Diomedea epomophora) is a large seabird from the albatross family.
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Storm petrel
Storm petrel may refer to one of two bird families, both in the order Procellariiformes, once treated as the same family.
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Tern
Terns are seabirds in the family Laridae that have a worldwide distribution and are normally found near the sea, rivers, or wetlands.
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Wandering albatross
The wandering albatross, snowy albatross, white-winged albatross or goonieRobertson, C. J. R. (2003) (Diomedea exulans) is a large seabird from the family Diomedeidae, which has a circumpolar range in the Southern Ocean.
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Waved albatross
The waved albatross (Phoebastria irrorata), also known as Galapagos albatross,Remsen Jr., J.V. (2008) is the only member of the family Diomedeidae located in the tropics.
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Western gull
The western gull (Larus occidentalis) is a large white-headed gull that lives on the west coast of North America.
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Whiskered tern
The whiskered tern (Chlidonias hybrida) is a tern in the family Laridae.
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White-winged chough
The white-winged chough (Corcorax melanorhamphos) is one of only two surviving members of the Australian mud-nest builders family, Corcoracidae, and is the only member of the genus Corcorax.
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Yellow-eyed penguin
The yellow-eyed penguin (Megadyptes antipodes) or hoiho is a penguin native to New Zealand.
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Yellow-legged gull
The yellow-legged gull (Larus michahellis), sometimes referred to as western yellow-legged gull (to distinguish it from eastern populations of yellow-legged large white-headed gulls), is a large gull of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, which has only recently achieved wide recognition as a distinct species.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seabird_breeding_behavior
