Bekassine
whole Europe, Asia with exception of the southern areas and North America is lived in by the Bekassine or swamp-snipe (Gallinago gallinago). its resid...
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bonnet-divers
is the bonnet-diver the biggest of our native diver-types and has the size of a mallard approximately, however the neck is longer and a tail practical...
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Brachschwalbe
the Brachschwalben summarized in 8 types to the type Glareola carries its name because of its outer similarity with swallows and the peculiarities of ...
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coast-tern
as single type of the terns breeds the 35-38 cm long coast-tern also in arctic coast-areas of Eurasia, Greenland and North America. In addition, its b...
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coat-seagull
co 65 cm until in the maximum 81 cm of total-length and a weight until 2 kg is coat-seagulls at all the biggest seagulls. Beside its magnificent size,...
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crocodile-guards
on the sandbanks and at the shores of rivers and seas of Egypt as well as in the tropical Africa of Senegal until Ethiopia, Uganda and North-Angola li...
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curlew
the type of the curlews puts the biggest snipe-birds with 8 types. The stretched one, downward bent beak and the long legs give them a characteristic ...
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dwarf-seagull
the black-headed dwarf-seagull is the smallest seagull-type. its spread-area includes north-east-Europe and Asia, however it brooded also already in H...
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Goldpfeiffer
wet moorland-ships, heath-areas and tundras of Iceland, the Färöern, the British isle and Scandinavia as far as to Siberia (Chatanga, Taimyr-Halbinsel...
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Gryllteist
Gryllteisten broods at the rock-coasts of the Arctic, the North-Atlantic and also in the Baltic Sea*-area. A Pacific subtype, the Taubenteiste (Cepphu...
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height-runners
height-runners or sand-runners lives in 4 types along South America's West coast as well as in the Andes-region. This zoologist puts it into an indepe...
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herring-seagull
herring-seagulls is given a home at the coasts of the northern seas, however, they advance also in the inland and brood on islands in big seas here....
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Kiebitze
at the 25 types of the plovers is summarized in the subfamily of the Kiebitze. Shape It is 23-37 cm big birds with black Handschwingen and white t...
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leaf-chickens
leaf-chickens lives in the tropics and subtropics of the elderly and new world on seas and other quiet waters. With its long toes, they are capable to...
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loons
co only 4-5 close to relatives types in a type, Gavia, forms the loons a very small order of the birds. It is extremely strong at the water-life of tr...
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Lummen
two manners of the Alken summarizes one under the term "Lummen": the 39-48 cm, usually however by 42 cm of big Trottellummen (Uria aalge) and them equ...
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Mornellregenpfeiffer
approximately 22 cm long and 90-130 g heavy becomes the Mornellregenpfeifer, also named "Mornells" shortly. It is characteristic plovers with white ey...
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oyster-fishers
is the oyster-fishers big waders with black-and-white or fully black plumage and reaches, red beaks and legs. The sexes are only badly distinguishable...
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petrels
this family of small, dark-gray, brown or black colored open sea-birds (the Bürzel is coated with many types of a white bond) includes the smallest re...
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plovers
this family still includes 2 subfamilies beside the actual plovers (subfamily Charadriinae), that 25 types of the Kiebitze (Vanellinae) as well as the...
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reindeer-birds
the 10 types of the reindeer-birds or desert-runners is led together with Brachschwalben in a common family, since a series of common anatomical chara...
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Riesenalk
this since 1844 wiped out Riesenalk (Pinguinus impennis) was the original bearer of the name "Penguin." In contrast to the today living Alkenarten, it...
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river-tern
river-terns lives at the coasts and shores of bigger seas and rivers of Eurasia (as far as to the Iran, to Afghanistan and North-China), further parts...
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robbery-seagulls
the 4 types of the robbery-seagulls forms an independent family. It is mainly brown-colored, very seagull-similar birds of the high north (Arctic) or ...
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Säbelschnäbler
is also 2 types with long, straight beaks (the Schlammstelzer and the stilt-runner) in this family of the Regenpfeiferartigen besides the 4 types of t...
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sandpipers
the sandpipers forms a quite uniform group of the snipe-birds with 19-24 types (according to opinion), however some put zoologist many types of separa...
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scissors-beaks
the 3 types of the scissors-beaks looks even longer wings and very big, at the side compressed beaks like outsize terns in the relationship as well. t...
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silver-seagull
silver-seagulls is almost world-wide widespread and surely the most known representatives of the seagulls of north and Baltic sea. This zoologist quit...
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snipe-birds
the system of the snipe-birds is complicated. they are a very multifarious group of the Regenpfeiferartigen with approximately 85-87 types (in approxi...
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stilt-runners
stilt-runners lives on all continents (the Antarctica excluded) including Madagascar in 8 subtypes, New Zealand and Hawaii, with what they clearly pre...
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stone-tomes
additional the spray-runner still is fitting 2 types into this subfamily of the plovers. However, the systematic assignment of the spray-runner is con...
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storm-divers
additional the type Puffinus still belongs the frequent one, 54 -55 cm big white-chin-petrel (Procellaria aequinoctialis) from the southern seas as bi...
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terns
the 39-42 types of the terns forms a family of the Möwenartigen, quite uniform from the look. It is birds of the beach and coast-regions as well as (s...
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thin-beak-seagull
the thin-beak-seagull (Larus genei) populates the unbewachsenen shores of big inner-waters of Spain and Morocco as far as after west-Asia preferential...
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three-toe-seagull
from the other seagulls distinguishes the three-toe-seagull through the absence of the fourth, rear toe, for itself externally. Also its holding back ...
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Tordalk
on the northern hemisphere takes on them seagull-birds of belonging Alken the role of the penguins of the South-polar region to the Wat-und on the bas...
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Triele
the 9 types of the Triele or "Dick-feet" forms an independent family of the Regenpfeiferartigen. they are almost world-wide widespread in warmer dry-a...
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Wassertreter
the 3 types of the Wassertreter is adjusted the strongest by all the Regenpfeiferartigen at a life on the water. they have very dense sub-plumage on t...
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