pelagic bird meaning

• Noun: pelagic bird
  1. Bird of the open seas
     - oceanic bird

  Derived forms: pelagic birds

  Type of: sea bird, seabird, seafowl

• Pelagic birds feed on planktonic crustaceans, squid and forage fish.
• This is one form of pelagic birding, by which pelagic bird species are viewed.
• It's also a popular stop for pelagic birds like albatrosses, shearwaters and storm petrels.
• The Atlantic puffin and other pelagic birds are excellent bioindicators of the environment as they occupy a high trophic level.
• It fed probably on the eggs and the juveniles of several Saint Helena terrestrial and pelagic bird species and on snails.
• Because of the special microhabitat of the adjacent Pillar Point Harbor, there are numerous pelagic birds that visit the local area.
• It is a feeding and resting area for a panoply of estuarine and pelagic birds, while its associated marshes and littoral zones support a variety of animal and plant life.
• They are a pelagic bird that is normally silent while flying over the open ocean but when on their breeding grounds the males give a whistling call and the females a loud trumpeting.
• Predicted birds ( 219 species )-Birds may include pelagic birds, wading birds, ducks and other water birds, raptors and other birds of prey, ground nesters, owls, and passerines.
• It is a pelagic bird of the open seas, but nests in subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.

• "pelagic bird" meaning in Chinese: [网络] 坎贝尔岛是远洋鸟类