Seabird | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-23

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seabird


00:01:22 1 Classification of seabirds
00:03:00 2 Evolution and fossil record
00:04:55 3 Characteristics
00:05:05 3.1 Adaptations to life at sea
00:08:01 3.2 Diet and feeding
00:08:51 3.2.1 Surface feeding
00:10:40 3.2.2 Pursuit diving
00:12:46 3.2.3 Plunge diving
00:14:15 3.2.4 Kleptoparasitism, scavenging and predation
00:15:57 3.3 Life history
00:18:03 3.4 Breeding and colonies
00:21:27 3.5 Migration
00:23:16 3.6 Away from the sea
00:25:06 4 Relationship with humans
00:25:16 4.1 Seabirds and fisheries
00:27:55 4.2 Exploitation
00:30:10 4.3 Other threats
00:31:48 4.4 Conservation
00:34:57 4.5 Role in culture
00:36:44 5 Seabird families



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Seabirds (also known as marine birds) are birds that are adapted to life within the marine environment. While seabirds vary greatly in lifestyle, behaviour and physiology, they often exhibit striking convergent evolution, as the same environmental problems and feeding niches have resulted in similar adaptations. The first seabirds evolved in the Cretaceous period, and modern seabird families emerged in the Paleogene.
In general, seabirds live longer, breed later and have fewer young than other birds do, but they invest a great deal of time in their young. Most species nest in colonies, which can vary in size from a few dozen birds to millions. Many species are famous for undertaking long annual migrations, crossing the equator or circumnavigating the Earth in some cases. They feed both at the ocean's surface and below it, and even feed on each other. Seabirds can be highly pelagic, coastal, or in some cases spend a part of the year away from the sea entirely.
Seabirds and humans have a long history together: they have provided food to hunters, guided fishermen to fishing stocks and led sailors to land. Many species are currently threatened by human activities, and conservation efforts are under way.