### animal | vertebrate | bird | sea bird | guillemot | murre:

Common murre
* are birds
  - murres
  - one of the northern hemisphere's most common seabirds
* breed on densely packed colonies on offshore rocks, islands and cliffs.
* fly overhead with fish in bills returning to the nest with food for their young.
* prey on small fish which are brought back to Alaska to central California.
* sun themselves in an outside pool.

Pigeon guillemot
* dig holes in cliffs for nest sites.
* dive in shallow water for sculpins, sand lance, and smelt.

Jaeger
* are uncommon along the Oregon coast.
* breed on the high tundra and winter at sea.
* can capture and feed on phalaropes at sea.
* sea bird

Oceanic bird
* Some oceanic birds migrate inland and then back to the ocean.
* prey on juvenile bluefish.

### animal | vertebrate | bird | sea bird | oceanic bird:

Petrel
* don t run on petrol.
* have better night vision than shearwaters, but both types are attracted to light.
* is an oceanic bird
* ride the air currents over the sea using a technique called dynamic soaring.
* rise higher in the sky.

### animal | vertebrate | bird | sea bird | oceanic bird | petrel:

Fulmar
- extremely greedy of the fat of the whale
  - petrels
* fold into crevices of air.
* occur in two different color phases.

Giant petrel
* build poorer nests.
* prey upon chicks, whereas at sea their predators are orcas and leopard seals.

### animal | vertebrate | bird | sea bird | oceanic bird | petrel:

Shearwater
* are a pelagic species, spending all their lives at sea, with the exception of nesting
  - another bird to watch in the North Pacific
  - good swimmers and have webbed feet
  - graceful birds that spend their lives gliding low over the waves at sea
  - gull-like birds which fly low over the ocean waves
  - gull-sized, but have much straighter, stiffer wings
  - petrels
  - small petrels with long wings that specialize in low, gliding flight
* spend most of their lives at sea, coming to land only to breed a few months a year.

Snow petrel
* are another species of summer breeding antarctic transients.
* feed on zooplankton in polynya s and sometimes on food regurgitated by penguins.

Sea gull
* Some sea gulls eat crabs.
* are ground nesting birds
  - located in sea
  - protective of their young
  - quite skilled at swooping down into the water and snatching small fish they see
  - scavengers
  - shore birds
* drops a shell on the rocks and ferrets out the fleshy contents.
* pick at some bodies.
* use wind currents and natural flying ability to fly very low over the ocean.

### animal | vertebrate | bird | sea bird:

Tern
* Most terns breed on open sandy or rocky areas on coasts and islands.
* are among the most common water birds of ocean and coastal zones
  - an endangered species found around the Bay
  - birds of great energy and mystery
  - expert colonizers when they can find suitable new habitat
  - gregarious birds and breed colonially
  - more selective about their diet than are gulls and often fly with constant wing beats
  - white to gray with white underparts
* dive for fish and gulls and sandpipers work the beaches and mudflats.
* feed on small fish which they catch with a sudden, arrow-like plunge.
* fly low over the water and dive for small fishes below the surface of the water.
* have a worldwide distribution, breeding on all continents including Antarctica
  - long, narrow wings
  - two orthree eggs each year
* look like seagulls but have a forked tail, long wings and a very graceful flight.
* normally breed in colonies , and are site-faithful if their habitat is sufficiently stable.
* often lay more eggs if the first ones are lost.
* prefer to nest in sandy areas, clear of debris.
* resemble gulls but have black caps and forked tails.