Table 5. A primary list of sea birds occurring in waters of the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf 

 of Mexico off the Southeastern United States. 



Common name 



Scientific name 



Common loon 



Arctic loon 



Red-throated loon 



Red-necked grebe 



Horned grebe 



Eared grebe 



Least grebe 



Western grebe 



Pied-billed grebe 



Yellow-nosed albatross 



Black-browed albatross 



Northern fulmar 



Cory's shearwater 



Greater shearwater 



Sooty shearwater 



Manx shearwater 



Audubon's shearwater 



Black-capped petrel 



Leach's storm-petrel 



Harcourt's storm-petrel 



Wilson's storm-petrel 



White-tailed tropicbird 



American white pelican 



Brown pen can 



Masked booby (= blue-faced booby) 



Brown booby 



Gavia immer 

 Gavia arctica 

 Gavia stellata 

 Podiceps grisegena 

 Podiceps auritus 

 Podiceps nigricollis 

 Podiceps dominicus 

 Aechmophorus occidentalis 

 Podilymbus podiceps 

 Diomedea chlororhynchos 

 Diomedea melanophris 

 Fulmarus glacialis 

 Calonectris diomedea 

 Puffinus gravis 

 Puffinus griseus 

 Puffinus puffinus 

 Puffinus l'herminieri 

 Pterodroma hasitata 

 Oceanodroma leucorhoa 

 Oceanodroma castro 

 Qceanites oceanicus 

 Phaethon lepturus 

 Pelecanus erythrorhynchos 

 Pelecanus occidentalis 

 Sula dactylatra 

 Sula leucogaster 



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