At any stage, you can move up or down the Taxonomic hierachy of Antarctic/subantarctic species by clicking on any name. Lower level taxon counts are shown in [].
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| Kingdom | Animalia | |
| Phylum | Chordata | |
| Class | Aves | |
| Order | Charadriiformes |
List of all species - see Taxon profile using the number
| Family Chionidae | ||||
| Chionis alba | Gmelin, 1789 | Snowy Sheathbill | ||
| Chionis minor nasicornis | Hartlaub, 1841 | Black-faced Sheathbill (Heard Island) | ||
| Family Laridae | ||||
| Catharacta chilensis | (Bonaparte, 1857) | Chilean Skua | ||
| Catharacta lonnbergi | Mathews, 1912 | Brown Skua | ||
| Catharacta lonnbergi lonnbergi | Subantarctic Skua (southern) | |||
| Catharacta maccormicki | (Saunders,1893) | South Polar Skua | ||
| Catharacta skua | Br¿nnich,1764 | Great Skua | ||
| Gygis alba candida | White Tern (Indo-Pacific) | |||
| Larus bulleri | Hutton, 1871 | Black-billed gull | ||
| Larus dominicanus | Lichtenstein, 1823 | Kelp Gull | ||
| Larus novaehollandiae | Stephens,1826 | Silver Gull | ||
| Larus pacificus | Latham,1801 | Pacific Gull | ||
| Stercorarius longicaudus | Vieillot,1819 | Long-tailed Jaeger, Long-tailed Skua | ||
| Stercorarius parasiticus | (Linnaeus,1758) | Arctic Jaeger, Arctic Skua | ||
| Stercorarius parasiticus | Linnaeus, 1758 | Parasitic Jaeger | ||
| Stercorarius pomarinus | (Temminck,1815) | Pomarine Jaeger, Pomarine Skua | ||
| Sterna anaethetus | Scopoli,1786 | Bridled Tern | ||
| Sterna bergii | Lichtenstein,1823 | Crested Tern | ||
| Sterna fuscata | Linnaeus,1766 | Sooty Tern | ||
| Sterna paradisaea | Pontoppidan,1763 | Arctic Tern | ||
| Sterna virgata | Cabanis, 1875 | Kerguelen Tern | ||
| Sterna vittata | Gmelin,1789 | Antarctic Tern | ||
| Sterna vittata bethunei | Buller, 1896 | Antarctic Tern (New Zealand) | ||
| Sterna vittata vittata | Gmelin, 1789 | Antarctic Tern (Indian Ocean) | ||
| Family Scolopacidae | ||||
| Arenaria interpres | (Linnaeus,1758) | Ruddy Turnstone | ||
| Calidris fuscicollis | (Vieillot,1819 | White-rumped Sandpiper | ||
| Calidris minutilla | Viellot, 1819 | Least Sandpiper | ||
| Tringa nebularia | (Gunnerus,1767) | Common Greenshank, Greenshank | ||
| Family Stercorariidae | ||||
| Stercorarius sp. | ||||