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Some carinate birds have become fully adapted to marine life, seldom ccming near land except to breed. Typically marine birds, including the penguins, breed colonially on remote coasts and small offshore islands where they can nest in comparative freedom from predation. The orders placed in this grouping are the exclusively marine Procellariiformes (or Tubinares), the Pelecaniformes in which there is a progressive tendency to become freshwater birds and the highly divergent penguins or Sphenisciformes.
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© 1979 J. E. Webb, J. A. Wallwork and J. H. Elgood
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Webb, J.E., Wallwork, J.A., Elgood, J.H. (1979). Marine Birds. In: Guide to Living Birds. Classification Guides. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03613-4_7
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