Water bird
A water bird is one who lives on or around water. It includes water fowl, sea birds, wading birds and shore birds. The term is quite useful in conservation biology for birds that live in or depend on bodies of water or wetland areas.
- Seabirds (marine birds, such as penguins and gulls)
- Shorebirds (waders, order Charadriiformes)
- Anseriformes (ducks, geese, swans, magpie geese, screamers)
- Grebes (order Podicipediformes)
- Loons (order Gaviiformes)
- Ciconiiformes (storks, herons, egrets, ibises, spoonbills and others)
- Pelecaniformes (pelicans and others)
- Flamingos (order Phoenicopteriformes)
- Some members of the order Gruiformes (including cranes and rails, crakes, coots and moorhens)
- Kingfishers
- One family of passerines, the dippers
Water Bird Media
Geese and ducks are just two types of water birds, which include seabirds, shorebirds, waterfowl, and numerous other forms of birds.
Video of gulls, ducks, and swans feeding on the Danube River in Vienna (2014)
A yellow-billed loon, a diving bird in the order Gaviiformes, swimming on a lake in the northern area of Alaska, United States
The Brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) has an enlarged throat pouch to aid it in feeding on schools of small fish. It is a member of the order Pelecaniformes, which also contains the herons, bitterns, and ibises
Pacific black ducks, one of the dabbling ducks, feeding in a wetland
The Common goldeneye, a diving duck, lives on fish