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| light colored cheecks; catch most prey underwater; solid black with long slender neck |
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| serrated edges to their bills; keen eyesight to locate prey in the water |
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| good swimmers and divers but appear clumsy on land; short wings - must flap very quickly to get airborne |
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| strong heavily built ducks, have greenish olive eggs |
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| smallest of all antartic birds, longest migration circut in the world |
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| flies with stiff wings to fly with minimum of activity |
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| largest penguin; male responsible for 2 month incubation of egg |
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| Color comes from diet; eats with head upside down |
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| Females are leaner and bigger; nest on top of telephone poles |
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| Greatest wingspand of any bird; mates for life |
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| Can fly, swim, or burrow; "fly" underwater by using their wings |
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| Can adjust buoyancy; feathers at right angles to their body |
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| Binnocular vision; airbag-like sacs around their neck and shoulders |
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| Red-kinfe like beak; found on sandy beaches |
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| Only dark pelican; plunges into the water to catch food |
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| found on sandy beaches; long, narrow beak |
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| Band of dark feathers under chin; smallest of its species |
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| hops into crocidiles mouth to clean their teeth |
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| uses narrow pointed bill for poling into the sand for small inverts |
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| Bill turns red during mating season; stalk prey in shallow water (dip fish) |
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| Can swallow a puffin whol; follows humpback whales |
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| Red feet and legs; lower jaw is longer than upper jaw |
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