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Order: Eurypygiformes
2 families, 2 species
Family #056
Kagu (Rhynochetidae)
- Species: 1
- Distribution: Oceania endemic (New Caledonia)
- IOC family #055, HBW family #017, H&M family #020
- wf250 status: 20% members ticked
- OH: 1 seen and photographed, first seen in New Caledonia, 2017
- Finding hints
| Kagu | Rhynochetos jubatus | .. |
Kagu, New Caledonia 2017
Family #057
Sunbittern (Eurypygidae)
- Species: 1
- Distribution: Neotropical endemic
- IOC family #056, HBW family #018, H&M family #019
- wf250 status: 68% members ticked
- OH: 1 seen and photographed, first seen in Brazil, 2015
| Sunbittern | Eurypyga helias | .. |
Sunbittern, Brazil 2015
Order: Phaethontiformes
1 family, 3 species
Family #058
Tropicbirds (Phaethontidae)
- Species: 3
- Distribution: global
- IOC family #057, HBW family #016, H&M family #021
- wf250 status: 77% members ticked
- OH: 3 seen, 2 photographed, first seen in Israel, 2005
| White-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon lepturus | .. |
| Red-billed Tropicbird | Phaethon aethereus | . |
| Red-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon rubricauda | .. |
1 Red-Tailed Tropicbird, Madagascar; 2 White-Tailed Tropicbird, Dominican Republic
Order: Gaviiformes
1 family, 5 species
Family #059
Loons (Gaviidae)
- Species: 5
- Distribution: Nearctic , Palearctic
- IOC family #058, HBW family #040, H&M family #039
- wf250 status: 91% members ticked
- OH: 4 seen and photographed, first seen in Israel, 1983
| Red-throated Loon | Gavia stellata | .. |
| Arctic Loon | Gavia arctica | .. |
| Pacific Loon | Gavia pacifica | .. |
| Common Loon | Gavia immer | .. |
| Yellow-billed Loon | Gavia adamsii |
1 Pacific Loon, USA; 2 Red-throated Loon, Norway; 3 Common Loon, USA; 4 Arctic Loon, Israel
Order: Sphenisciformes
Family #060
Penguins (Spheniscidae)
- Species: 18
- Distribution: Afrotropic, Australasia, Neotropic
- IOC family #059, HBW family #041, H&M family #040
- wf250 status: 78% members ticked
- OH: 6 seen, 5 photographed, first seen in Peru, 2009
| King Penguin | Aptenodytes patagonicus | |
| Emperor Penguin | Aptenodytes forsteri | |
| Adelie Penguin | Pygoscelis adeliae | |
| Gentoo Penguin | Pygoscelis papua | |
| Chinstrap Penguin | Pygoscelis antarcticus | |
| Yellow-eyed Penguin | Megadyptes antipodes | .. |
| Little Penguin | Eudyptula minor | .. |
| African Penguin | Spheniscus demersus | .. |
| Humboldt Penguin | Spheniscus humboldti | . |
| Galapagos Penguin | Spheniscus mendiculus | |
| Magellanic Penguin | Spheniscus magellanicus | .. |
| Fiordland Penguin | Eudyptes pachyrhynchus | .. |
| Erect-crested Penguin | Eudyptes sclateri | |
| Macaroni Penguin | Eudyptes chrysolophus | |
| Royal Penguin | Eudyptes schlegeli | |
| Southern Rockhopper Penguin | Eudyptes chrysocome | |
| Moseley’s Rockhopper Penguin | Eudyptes moseleyi | |
| Snares Penguin | Eudyptes robustus |
1 Yellow-eyed Penguin, New Zealand; 2 Fiordland Penguin, New Zealand; 3 African Penguin, South Africa; 4 Blue Penguin, New Zealand; 5 Magellanic Penguin, Argentina
Order: Procellariiformes
4 families, 140 species (3 extinct)
Family #061
Albatrosses (Diomedeidae)
- Species: 20
- Distribution: global
- IOC family #061, HBW family #044, H&M family #042
- wf250 status: 80% members ticked
- OH: 7 seen and photographed, first seen in Australia, 2013
| Northern Royal Albatross | Diomedea sanfordi | .. |
| Southern Royal Albatross | Diomedea epomophora | .. |
| Snowy Albatross | Diomedea exulans | .. |
| Tristan Albatross | Diomedea dabbenena | |
| Antipodean Albatross | Diomedea antipodensis | |
| Amsterdam Albatross | Diomedea amsterdamensis | |
| Waved Albatross | Phoebastria irrorata | |
| Laysan Albatross | Phoebastria immutabilis | |
| Black-footed Albatross | Phoebastria nigripes | |
| Short-tailed Albatross | Phoebastria albatrus | |
| Sooty Albatross | Phoebetria fusca | |
| Light-mantled Albatross | Phoebetria palpebrata | |
| Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross | Thalassarche chlororhynchos | |
| Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross | Thalassarche carteri | .. |
| Gray-headed Albatross | Thalassarche chrysostoma | |
| Buller’s Albatross | Thalassarche bulleri | |
| White-capped Albatross | Thalassarche cauta | .. |
| Salvin’s Albatross | Thalassarche salvini | .. |
| Chatham Albatross | Thalassarche eremita | |
| Black-browed Albatross | Thalassarche melanophris | .. |
1 Wandering Albatros, Australia; 2 Black-browed Albatross (Black-browed), Australia; 3 White-capped Albatross, Australia; 4 Northern Royal Albatross, New Zealand; 5 Black-browed Albatross (Campbell), Australia; 6 Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross, Australia; 7 Salvin’s Albatross, New Zealand; 8 Southern Royal Albatross, New Zealand
Family #062
Southern Storm-Petrels (Oceanitidae)
- Species: 10
- Distribution: global
- IOC family #060 (Austral Storm Petrels), HBW family #042, H&M family #041
- wf250 status: 78% members ticked
- OH: 2 seen and photographed, first seen in Israel, 1983
| Wilson’s Storm-Petrel | Oceanites oceanicus | .. |
| Pincoya Storm-Petrel | Oceanites pincoyae | |
| Elliot’s Storm-Petrel | Oceanites gracilis | |
| Gray-backed Storm-Petrel | Garrodia nereis | |
| White-faced Storm-Petrel | Pelagodroma marina | |
| White-bellied Storm-Petrel | Fregetta grallaria | |
| New Zealand Storm-Petrel | Fregetta maoriana | |
| Black-bellied Storm-Petrel | Fregetta tropica | .. |
| Polynesian Storm-Petrel | Nesofregetta fuliginosa |
1 Wilson’s Storm-Petrel, Australia; 2 Black-bellied Storm-Petrel, Australia
Family #063
Northern Storm-Petrels (Hydrobatidae)
- Species: 18 (1 extinct)
- Distribution: global
- IOC family #062, HBW family #043, H&M family #043
- wf250 status: 81% members ticked
- OH: 3 seen, 2 photographed, first seen in Israel, 1983
| European Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates pelagicus | . |
| Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates furcatus | |
| Ringed Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates hornbyi | |
| Leach’s Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates leucorhous | .. |
| Townsend’s Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates socorroensis | |
| Ainley’s Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates cheimomnestes | |
| Swinhoe’s Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates monorhis | .. |
| Ashy Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates homochroa | |
| Band-rumped Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates castro | |
| Monteiro’s Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates monteiroi | |
| Cape Verde Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates jabejabe | |
| Wedge-rumped Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates tethys | |
| Black Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates melania | |
| Guadalupe Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates macrodactylus | (extinct) |
| Markham’s Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates markhami | |
| Matsudaira’s Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates matsudairae | |
| Tristram’s Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates tristrami | |
| Least Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates microsoma |
1 Leach’s Storm-Petrel, Israel; 2 Swinhoe’s Storm Petrel, Israel
Family #064
Shearwaters and Petrels (Procellariidae)
- Species: 98 (3 extinct)
- Distribution: global
- IOC family #063 (Petrels, Shearwaters, Diving Petrels), HBW family #045 (Petrels, Shearwaters), H&M family #044 (Petrels and Shearwaters)
- wf250 status: 96% members ticked
- OH: 22 seen, 15 photographed, first seen in Egypt, 1977
| Southern Giant-Petrel | Macronectes giganteus | .. |
| Northern Giant-Petrel | Macronectes halli | .. |
| Northern Fulmar | Fulmarus glacialis | .. |
| Southern Fulmar | Fulmarus glacialoides | |
| Antarctic Petrel | Thalassoica antarctica | |
| Cape Petrel | Daption capense | .. |
| Snow Petrel | Pagodroma nivea | |
| Kerguelen Petrel | Aphrodroma brevirostris | |
| Large St. Helena Petrel | Pterodroma rupinarum | (extinct) |
| Great-winged Petrel | Pterodroma macroptera | |
| Gray-faced Petrel | Pterodroma gouldi | |
| Kermadec Petrel | Pterodroma neglecta | |
| Magenta Petrel | Pterodroma magentae | |
| Trindade Petrel | Pterodroma arminjoniana | |
| Herald Petrel | Pterodroma heraldica | |
| Murphy’s Petrel | Pterodroma ultima | |
| Providence Petrel | Pterodroma solandri | .. |
| Henderson Petrel | Pterodroma atrata | |
| Zino’s Petrel | Pterodroma madeira | |
| Fea’s Petrel | Pterodroma feae | |
| Soft-plumaged Petrel | Pterodroma mollis | . |
| Barau’s Petrel | Pterodroma baraui | |
| White-headed Petrel | Pterodroma lessonii | |
| Mottled Petrel | Pterodroma inexpectata | . |
| Bermuda Petrel | Pterodroma cahow | |
| Black-capped Petrel | Pterodroma hasitata | |
| Jamaican Petrel | Pterodroma caribbaea | (extinct) |
| Juan Fernandez Petrel | Pterodroma externa | |
| Atlantic Petrel | Pterodroma incerta | |
| Galapagos Petrel | Pterodroma phaeopygia | |
| Hawaiian Petrel | Pterodroma sandwichensis | |
| White-necked Petrel | Pterodroma cervicalis | |
| Bonin Petrel | Pterodroma hypoleuca | |
| Black-winged Petrel | Pterodroma nigripennis | |
| Chatham Petrel | Pterodroma axillaris | |
| Cook’s Petrel | Pterodroma cookii | |
| Masatierra Petrel | Pterodroma defilippiana | |
| Gould’s Petrel | Pterodroma leucoptera | |
| Collared Petrel | Pterodroma brevipes | |
| Stejneger’s Petrel | Pterodroma longirostris | |
| Pycroft’s Petrel | Pterodroma pycrofti | |
| Phoenix Petrel | Pterodroma alba | |
| Vanuatu Petrel | Pterodroma occulta | |
| Blue Petrel | Halobaena caerulea | |
| Fairy Prion | Pachyptila turtur | .. |
| Broad-billed Prion | Pachyptila vittata | |
| Salvin’s Prion | Pachyptila salvini | |
| MacGillivray’s Prion | Pachyptila macgillivrayi | |
| Antarctic Prion | Pachyptila desolata | |
| Slender-billed Prion | Pachyptila belcheri | |
| Fulmar Prion | Pachyptila crassirostris | |
| Bulwer’s Petrel | Bulweria bulwerii | |
| Jouanin’s Petrel | Bulweria fallax | |
| Small St. Helena Petrel | Bulweria bifax | (extinct) |
| Fiji Petrel | Pseudobulweria macgillivrayi | |
| Mascarene Petrel | Pseudobulweria aterrima | |
| Tahiti Petrel | Pseudobulweria rostrata | |
| Beck’s Petrel | Pseudobulweria becki | |
| Gray Petrel | Procellaria cinerea | |
| White-chinned Petrel | Procellaria aequinoctialis | . |
| Spectacled Petrel | Procellaria conspicillata | |
| Parkinson’s Petrel | Procellaria parkinsoni | |
| Westland Petrel | Procellaria westlandica | .. |
| Streaked Shearwater | Calonectris leucomelas | |
| Cory’s Shearwater | Calonectris diomedea | .. |
| Cape Verde Shearwater | Calonectris edwardsii | |
| Pink-footed Shearwater | Ardenna creatopus | |
| Flesh-footed Shearwater | Ardenna carneipes | |
| Great Shearwater | Ardenna gravis | |
| Wedge-tailed Shearwater | Ardenna pacifica | . |
| Buller’s Shearwater | Ardenna bulleri | |
| Sooty Shearwater | Ardenna grisea | .. |
| Short-tailed Shearwater | Ardenna tenuirostris | .. |
| Christmas Shearwater | Puffinus nativitatis | |
| Galapagos Shearwater | Puffinus subalaris | |
| Manx Shearwater | Puffinus puffinus | .. |
| Yelkouan Shearwater | Puffinus yelkouan | .. |
| Balearic Shearwater | Puffinus mauretanicus | . |
| Hutton’s Shearwater | Puffinus huttoni | . |
| Bannerman’s Shearwater | Puffinus bannermani | |
| Townsend’s Shearwater | Puffinus auricularis | |
| Newell’s Shearwater | Puffinus newelli | |
| Rapa Shearwater | Puffinus myrtae | |
| Bryan’s Shearwater | Puffinus bryani | |
| Black-vented Shearwater | Puffinus opisthomelas | . |
| Fluttering Shearwater | Puffinus gavia | .. |
| Little Shearwater | Puffinus assimilis | |
| Subantarctic Shearwater | Puffinus elegans | |
| Barolo Shearwater | Puffinus baroli | |
| Boyd’s Shearwater | Puffinus boydi | |
| Audubon’s Shearwater | Puffinus lherminieri | |
| Tropical Shearwater | Puffinus bailloni | |
| Persian Shearwater | Puffinus persicus | .. |
| Heinroth’s Shearwater | Puffinus heinrothi | |
| Peruvian Diving-Petrel | Pelecanoides garnotii | |
| Common Diving-Petrel | Pelecanoides urinatrix | .. |
| South Georgia Diving-Petrel | Pelecanoides georgicus | |
| Magellanic Diving-Petrel | Pelecanoides magellani |
Northern Giant Petrel, New Zealand
1 Northern Giant Petrel, New Zealand; 2 Southern Giant Petrel, Argentina; 3 Northern Fulmar, Ireland; 4 Cape Petrel, New Zealand; 5 Fairy Prion, Australia; 6 Providence Petrel, Australia; 7 Cory’s Shearwater, Israel; 8 Fluttering Shearwater, New Zealand; 9 Short-tailed Shearwater, Australia; 10 Common Diving-Petrel, New Zealand; 11 Westland Petrel, New Zealand; 12 Scopoli’s Shearwater, Italy; 13 Sooty Shearwater, Israel; 14 Manx Shearwater, Israel; 15 Levantine Shearwater, Israel; 16 Persian Shearwater, Israel
