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Cetaceans, Seals, Sea Turtles, and Coastal & Pelagic Birds of New York

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CETACEA

• Suborder Mysticeti. The baleen whales

  • Family Balaenidae. Right Whales

    • Eubalaena glacialis (Northern right whale)

  • Family Balaenopteridae. Rorquals

    • Balaenoptera acutorostrata (minke whale)

    • Balaenoptera borealis (sei whale)

    • Balaenoptera musculus (blue whale)

    • Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale)

    • Megaptera novaeangliae (humpback whale)

• Suborder Odontoceti. The toothed whales

  • Family Delphinidae. Dolphins

    • Delphinus delphis (common dolphin)

    • Globicephala melaena (long finned pilot whale)

    • Grampus griseus (Risso's dolphin)

    • Lagenorhynchus acutus (Atlantic white-sided dolphin)

    • Lagenorhynchus albirostris (white beaked dolphin)

    • Orcinus orca (killer whale)

    • Stenella attenuata (pantropical spotted dolphin)

    • Stenella coeruleoalba (striped dolphin)

    • Tursiops truncatus (bottlenose dolphin)

  • Family Kogiidae. Pygmy sperm whales

    • Kogia breviceps (pygmy sperm whale)

  • Family Monodontidae. Beluga and narwhal

    • Delphinapterus leucas (beluga whale)

  • Family Phocoenidae. Porpoises

    • Phocoena phocoena (harbor porpoise)

  • Family Physeteridae. Sperm whale

    • Physeter macrocephalus (sperm whale)

  • Family Ziphiidae. Beaked whales

    • Ziphius cavirostris (Cuvier's beaked whale)

PINNIPEDIA

• Family Phocidae (true seals)

  • Cystophora cristata (Hooded seal)

  • Haliocoerus grypus (grey seal)

  • Pagophilus groenlandicus (harp seal)

  • Phoca hispida (ringed seal)

  • Phoca vitulina (harbor seal)

SEA TURTLES

• Family Cheloniidae

  • Chelonia mydas (Green Turtle)

  • Caretta caretta (Loggerhead)

  • Lepidochelys kempi (Kemp's Ridley)

• Family Dermochelyidae

  • Dermochelys coriacea (Leatherback) Leatherback Sea Turtle

BIRDS

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• Family Diomedeidae

  • Diomedea chlororhyncos (Yellow-nosed Albatross)

• Family Laridae

  • Chroicophalus philadelphia (Bonaparte’s Gull)

  • Hydroprogne caspia (Caspian Tern)

  • Larus argentatus (Herring Gull)

  • Larus delawarensis (Ring-billed Gull)

  • Larus hyperboreus (Glaucus Gull)

  • Larus marinus (Greater Black-backed Gull)

  • Larus tridactyla (Black-legged Kittiwake)

  • Leucophaeus atricilla (Laughing Gull)

  • Stercorarius parasiticus (Parasitic Jaeger)

  • Stercorarius pomarinus (Pomarine Jaeger)

  • Sterna dougallii (Roseate Tern)

  • Sterna hirundo (Common Tern)

  • Sterna paradisaea (Arctic Tern)

  • Thalasseus maximus ((Royal Tern)

• Family Hydrobatidae

  • Oceanites oceanicus (Wilson’s Storm Petrel)

  • Oceanodroma leucorhoa(Leach’s Storm Petrel)

• Family Phalacrocoracidae

  • Phalacrocorax auritus (Double-crested Cormorant)

  • Phalacrocorax carbo (Great Cormorant)

• Family Phalaropodidae

  • Phalaropus tricolor (Wilson’s Phalarope)    

  • Phalaropus lobatus ((Red-necked Phalarope)

• Family Procellariidae

  • Calonectris diomedea (Cory’s Shearwater) /h4>

  • Fulmarus glacialis (Northern Fulmar)

  • Puffinus gravis (Greater Shearwater)

  • Puffinus griseus (Sooty Shearwater)

  • Puffinus lherminieri (Audubon’s Shearwater)

  • Puffinus puffinus (Manx Shearwater)

• Family Sulidae

  • Sula bassana (Northern Gannet)