SOUTHERN GIANT PETREL
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Classes: Aves
Order: Procellariiformes
Family: Procellariidae
Genus: Macronectes
Species: Macronectes giganteus
The Southern Giant Petrel (Macronectes giganteus) is a large seabird species of the southern oceans. They are distributed on the Antarctic continent, Antarctic Peninsula and on sub-Antarctic islands including Heard Island, South Georgia, Marion, and Iles Crozet, overlapping broadly with the similar Northern Giant Petrel.
Southern Giant Petrels have two distinct color phases, which are white and dark. Dark phase adults have a grey-brown body with white head, while the Juveniles have a dark brown body with a dark brown iris, which closely resembles the Northern Giant Petrel.
White phase birds are completely white except for a few scattered dark feathers. Generally, the white phase birds only cover a maximum 5% of the population.
Southern Giant Petrel measures about 86-89 cm with a wingspan of 185-205 cm. They have a very large yellow bill, and then they flies, they have a hunchbacked appearance.
Southern Giant Petrel and the similar Northern Giant Petrel consume the same foods, which are fish, squid, krill, other small seabirds, and carcasses of marine animals. However, studies showed that there is a significant dietary difference between sexes. Females tend to feed more on a live prey while men tend to feed more toward carrion.
By: Diemas Ekakarina Prihandini
Phylum: Chordata
Classes: Aves
Order: Procellariiformes
Family: Procellariidae
Genus: Macronectes
Species: Macronectes giganteus
The Southern Giant Petrel (Macronectes giganteus) is a large seabird species of the southern oceans. They are distributed on the Antarctic continent, Antarctic Peninsula and on sub-Antarctic islands including Heard Island, South Georgia, Marion, and Iles Crozet, overlapping broadly with the similar Northern Giant Petrel.
Southern Giant Petrels have two distinct color phases, which are white and dark. Dark phase adults have a grey-brown body with white head, while the Juveniles have a dark brown body with a dark brown iris, which closely resembles the Northern Giant Petrel.
White phase birds are completely white except for a few scattered dark feathers. Generally, the white phase birds only cover a maximum 5% of the population.
Southern Giant Petrel measures about 86-89 cm with a wingspan of 185-205 cm. They have a very large yellow bill, and then they flies, they have a hunchbacked appearance.
Southern Giant Petrel and the similar Northern Giant Petrel consume the same foods, which are fish, squid, krill, other small seabirds, and carcasses of marine animals. However, studies showed that there is a significant dietary difference between sexes. Females tend to feed more on a live prey while men tend to feed more toward carrion.
By: Diemas Ekakarina Prihandini
ATLANTIC PUFFIN // Fratercula artica
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Alcidae
Genus: Fratercula
Species: F. artica
Atlantic Puffin is a seabird in the auk family. Primarily they feed by diving, either for fish other sea creatures, such as squid, small fish, sand eels and crustaceans. This species can be found only in Atlantic Ocean. Their nicknames are “clown of the ocean” and “sea rooster” because of the appearance with colorful bill and striking piebald plumage. These birds live most of their lives at sea. Like most of other birds, Atlantic Puffin can fly, but they also can “fly” through the water by using their wings as paddles. They can dive up to 200 feet or 61 meters deep. Puffins usually stay underwater for only 20 to 30 seconds. Puffins can weigh 500 g. their size are 10 inches. The females are the one that lays eggs. Both parents; female and male take turn to incubate. When the eggs hatches, its parents will take turn to feed the chicks by carrying fish to its nests. The nests are often on steep and rocky cliffs.
WHAT’S INTERESTING ABOUT ATLANTIC PUFFINS?
They are speedy in air; they can flap their wings up to 100 times per minutes that can reach speeds of 55 miles an hour.
The beak of Atlantic Puffins fades to gray during the winter and blooms with color again in the spring. It may be attractive to potential mates.
They’re group name called the COLONY
By using their tongues, puffin push the fish that they catch to the up part of the mouth (small notches) to hold the food securely. So the puffins can catch more fish with mouth open.
BY: VICKY KIRKPATRICK
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Alcidae
Genus: Fratercula
Species: F. artica
Atlantic Puffin is a seabird in the auk family. Primarily they feed by diving, either for fish other sea creatures, such as squid, small fish, sand eels and crustaceans. This species can be found only in Atlantic Ocean. Their nicknames are “clown of the ocean” and “sea rooster” because of the appearance with colorful bill and striking piebald plumage. These birds live most of their lives at sea. Like most of other birds, Atlantic Puffin can fly, but they also can “fly” through the water by using their wings as paddles. They can dive up to 200 feet or 61 meters deep. Puffins usually stay underwater for only 20 to 30 seconds. Puffins can weigh 500 g. their size are 10 inches. The females are the one that lays eggs. Both parents; female and male take turn to incubate. When the eggs hatches, its parents will take turn to feed the chicks by carrying fish to its nests. The nests are often on steep and rocky cliffs.
WHAT’S INTERESTING ABOUT ATLANTIC PUFFINS?
They are speedy in air; they can flap their wings up to 100 times per minutes that can reach speeds of 55 miles an hour.
The beak of Atlantic Puffins fades to gray during the winter and blooms with color again in the spring. It may be attractive to potential mates.
They’re group name called the COLONY
By using their tongues, puffin push the fish that they catch to the up part of the mouth (small notches) to hold the food securely. So the puffins can catch more fish with mouth open.
BY: VICKY KIRKPATRICK
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Pelecaniformes
Family: Phaethontidae
Genus: Phaethon
Also known as: red-tailed bosunbird, silver bosun bird, strawtail.
Tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) is a large species of sea bird that nesting on the warmer cliffs and island. It has its own group even though they are closely related to other large seabird such as pelicans, frigate birds and boobies.
There are 3 different species of tropicbird found along tropical Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. There are also 3 different types of tropicbirds: White-tailed Tropicbird, Red-Tailed Tropicbird and Red-billed tropicbird. All of them are generally white in color with long tail feathers and thin spindly legs.
Red-tailed tropicbird named from its long tail steamers, which are in red color and can be measure up to 35 cm in length and known as one of the elegant bird. Their body is dominated with white feathers, often with pinkish sheen according to their habitats, but accept for an area with black feathers in front of the eye, black streaks on the side of the body and at the base of the wings.
Tropicbird is largely solitary and only comes ashore to breed. Their purplish egg took 39-51 days to incubation. Fledging occurs in 77-123 days. Both male and female incubate the eggs in shift of 8-9 days. Their nest is in the crevice or protected by hard rock. Strawtail nests in the Hawaii islands and disperses widely in tropical and subtropical area of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Red-tailed tropicbird does not listed as risk of extinction, but they have suffered from human exploitation for food. They are also suffering from predation by rats that will eat their eggs and newborn tropicbirds, and also rabbits, which will remove protective vegetation from nesting sites. Human also might haunt them on some area such as in South Pacific Island, where their tail streamers have ornamental uses, they are also vulnerable to storm caused by El Nino, that can cause failure in breeding.
Even though they are not listed as rick of extinction, but there are some areas that protected them. Most colonies in Hawaii have been undertaken to remove invasive predators and vegetation and to limit disturbances. They are also protected by African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement, which encourages the participants to develop conservation action directed at migratory waterbirds and their habitats.
BY. AISYAH PUTRI
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Pelecaniformes
Family: Phaethontidae
Genus: Phaethon
Also known as: red-tailed bosunbird, silver bosun bird, strawtail.
Tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) is a large species of sea bird that nesting on the warmer cliffs and island. It has its own group even though they are closely related to other large seabird such as pelicans, frigate birds and boobies.
There are 3 different species of tropicbird found along tropical Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. There are also 3 different types of tropicbirds: White-tailed Tropicbird, Red-Tailed Tropicbird and Red-billed tropicbird. All of them are generally white in color with long tail feathers and thin spindly legs.
Red-tailed tropicbird named from its long tail steamers, which are in red color and can be measure up to 35 cm in length and known as one of the elegant bird. Their body is dominated with white feathers, often with pinkish sheen according to their habitats, but accept for an area with black feathers in front of the eye, black streaks on the side of the body and at the base of the wings.
Tropicbird is largely solitary and only comes ashore to breed. Their purplish egg took 39-51 days to incubation. Fledging occurs in 77-123 days. Both male and female incubate the eggs in shift of 8-9 days. Their nest is in the crevice or protected by hard rock. Strawtail nests in the Hawaii islands and disperses widely in tropical and subtropical area of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Red-tailed tropicbird does not listed as risk of extinction, but they have suffered from human exploitation for food. They are also suffering from predation by rats that will eat their eggs and newborn tropicbirds, and also rabbits, which will remove protective vegetation from nesting sites. Human also might haunt them on some area such as in South Pacific Island, where their tail streamers have ornamental uses, they are also vulnerable to storm caused by El Nino, that can cause failure in breeding.
Even though they are not listed as rick of extinction, but there are some areas that protected them. Most colonies in Hawaii have been undertaken to remove invasive predators and vegetation and to limit disturbances. They are also protected by African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement, which encourages the participants to develop conservation action directed at migratory waterbirds and their habitats.
BY. AISYAH PUTRI
Penguin
Penguin are bird, a penguin has a wing, feathers, a beak and two legs , and lays egg, and a warm blooded like the others bird but penguin can’t fly like the others. They swim and dive to the ocean to find a food, they eat a fish. They have a sleek body and use the wings as flippers. Because penguin is live in a cold area so they have more feathers than birds that fly, the undercoat of the feathers is downy and keeps the penguin war. The outer layer of the coat is waterproof because it made by the overlapping feather. Each year they changing their feather, losing their old feather and changing into new one. There are a seventeen types of penguin that lived in the bottom of the earth called southern hemisphere. Many of the penguin live in the polar region but there’s also who live in the cool water near the equator. Penguin is a defenseless bird, because of that they ussualy live in the island where there are no predators or in remote areas away from predators.
This is penguin taxonomy:
Kingdom : animalia
Phylum : chordata
Class : aves
Infraclass : neognathae
Order : sphenisciformes
Family : spheniscidae
By Fabian Erlanda Nasution
This is penguin taxonomy:
Kingdom : animalia
Phylum : chordata
Class : aves
Infraclass : neognathae
Order : sphenisciformes
Family : spheniscidae
By Fabian Erlanda Nasution