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Diving birds are birds which plunge into the water to catch fish or other prey.

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Diving bird

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themselves when diving. Plunge-diving is a special form of foraging that involves a transition from air to water.[citation needed] Plunge-diving birds are notable...

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Seabird

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diving, taking fast-moving prey by diving into the water from the flight. Plunge diving allows birds to use the energy from the momentum of the dive to...

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List of birds by flight speed

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fastest flying birds in the world. A bird's velocity is necessarily variable; a hunting bird will reach much greater speeds while diving to catch prey...

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Bird

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only to breed, while some penguins have been recorded diving up to 300 metres (980 ft) deep. Many bird species have established breeding populations in areas...

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Water bird

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A water bird, alternatively waterbird or aquatic bird, is a bird that lives on or around water. In some definitions, the term water bird is especially...

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Cormorant

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nwdiveclub.com. "Birds diving beyond 50ft down and going horizontally there?!". NWDiveClub.com. Northwest Dive Club. Cormorants Deep Sea Dive Caught on Camera...

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Air sac

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through the trachea. In diving birds, the air sacs can aid in helping birds with respiration. Movement of the muscles involved in diving can cause a pressure...

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Diving reflex

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The diving reflex, also known as the diving response and mammalian diving reflex, is a set of physiological responses to immersion that overrides the...

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Underwater diving

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diver may dive on breath-hold (freediving) or use breathing apparatus for scuba diving or surface-supplied diving, and the saturation diving technique...

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Physiology of underwater diving

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The physiology of underwater diving is the physiological adaptations to diving of air-breathing vertebrates that have returned to the ocean from terrestrial...

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Lockheed Martin Cormorant

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contract for development was cancelled. It is named after a species of diving bird in reference to its intended role as a submarine-launched UAV. The U...

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Mandarin duck

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Ancient Greek word which was used by Aristotle to refer to an unknown diving bird, and 'galericulata' is the Latin for a wig, derived from galerum, a cap...

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Penguin

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adapted for deep diving. They swam on the surface using mainly their feet, but the wings were – as opposed to most other diving birds (both living and...

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Ornithurae

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G. W.; Longrich, N. R. (2017). "Maaqwi cascadensis: A large, marine diving bird (Avialae: Ornithurae) from the Upper Cretaceous of British Columbia,...

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Diving petrel

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The diving petrels form a genus, Pelecanoides, of seabirds in the family Procellariidae. There are four very similar species of diving petrels, distinguished...

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Grebe

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(/ˈɡriːbz/) are aquatic diving birds in the order Podicipediformes (/ˌpɒdɪsɪˈpɛdɪfɔːrmiːz/). Grebes are widely distributed freshwater birds, with some species...

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Great cormorant

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cormorant forages by diving and capturing its prey in its beak. The duration of its dives is around 28 seconds, with the bird diving to depths of about...

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Freediving

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Freediving, free-diving, free diving, breath-hold diving, or skin diving, is a mode of underwater diving that relies on breath-holding until resurfacing...

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Pteranodon

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and shoulders of Pteranodon were as heavily built as diving birds, and suggested that they could dive by folding back their wings like the modern gannet...

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Melodious blackbird

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The melodious blackbird (Dives dives) is a New World tropical bird. The adult is a medium-sized blackbird with a rounded tail. The male is 25.5 cm (10...

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Vegavis

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Kaiser; Nicholas R. Longrich (2017). "Maaqwi cascadensis: A large, marine diving bird (Avialae: Ornithurae) from the Upper Cretaceous of British Columbia,...

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Hesperornithes

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making diving easier. However, morphometric comparison with modern diving birds suggests that hesperornitheans share more similarities with diving ducks...

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Scuba diving

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Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving whereby divers use breathing equipment that is completely independent of a surface breathing gas supply, and...

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Loch Ness Monster

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(including Roy Mackal and Maurice Burton) consider it a picture of a diving bird or otter that Wilson mistook for the monster. According to Morrison,...

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Tufted duck

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[citation needed]) (Aythya fuligula) is a small diving duck with a population of close to one million birds, found in northern Eurasia. The scientific name...

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Athena

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in Megara. The word aíthyia (αἴθυια) signifies a "diver", also some diving bird species (possibly the shearwater) and figuratively, a "ship", so the...

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Loon

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the Wayback Machine on the Internet Bird Collection The Loon Project website Loon Preservation Committee Diving Birds of North America by Paul Johnsgard...

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