seabird-list-Clements2025
List of seabirds from Clements taxonomy
Citation: Clements, J. F., P. C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, M. Smith, and C. L. Wood. 2025. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2025.
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Seabirds are defined as follows:
- All Sphenisciformes (penguins)
- All Procellariiformes (petrels, albatross etc.)
- All Gaviiformes (divers/loons)
- All Phaethontiformes (tropicbirds)
- All Suliformes (gannets, boobies etc.) except Anhingidae (anhingas)
- Within Pelecaniformes, Pelecanidae (pelicans)
- Within Charadriiformes, Laridae (gulls), Alcidae (auks), Stercorariidae (skuas) and Phalaropodini (phalaropes)
- Within Anseriformes, Mergini (diving ducks)
We also exclude the extinct species Bulweria bifax, Camptorhynchus labradorius, Hydrobates macrodactylus, Mergus australis, Pinguinus impennis, Pterodroma caribbaea, Pterodroma rupinarum, and Urile perspicillatus
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Stephanie Avery-Gomm; Nia Potapova; Chrissie Potter; Alexander Bond et al. (2025). seabird-list-Clements2025 (from Global seabird plastic occurrence database) [Data set resource]. Natural History Museum.
https://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/global-seabird-plastic-occurrence-database/resource/2d62bb20-882b-4a99-8771-5bfb02d599f6
Retrieved: 03:05 07 Oct 2026 (UTC)
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