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Grebes, Loons, Alcids, Gulls, Terns, Albatross and other tubenoses, Cormorants and related species, AOU Numbers 001.0-128.0 Longevity Records

Species Common Age
NumberNameYrs-Mos
0010 Western Grebe 11-00
0020 Red-necked Grebe 4-10
0030 Horned Grebe 5-09
0040 Eared Grebe 8-07
0070 Common Loon 19-01
0080 Yellow-billed Loon 10-01
0120 Tufted Puffin 6-00
0130 Atlantic Puffin 31-11
0150 Rhinoceros Auklet 10-00
0160 Cassin's Auklet 16-02
0180 Crested Auklet 10-10
0190 Whiskered Auklet 15-00

0200

Least Auklet  8-01
0210 Ancient Murrelet 5-00
0230 Marbled Murrelet 10-00
0250 Xantus' Murrelet 14-10
0270 Black Guillemot 13-01
0290 Pigeon Guillemot 11-10
0300 Common Murre 26-05
0310 Thick-billed Murre 23-07
0320 Razorbill 18-00
0352 South Polar Skua 23-06
0380 Long-tailed Jaeger 14-00
0390 Ivory Gull 23-11
0400 Black-legged Kittiwake 25-07
0410 Red-legged Kittiwake 27-00
0420 Glaucous Gull 9-01
0440 Glaucous-winged Gull 24-09
0470 Great Black-backed Gull 26-09
0490 Western Gull 27-10
0510 Herring Gull 28-00
0530 California Gull 24-11
0540 Ring-billed Gull 27-03
0550 Mew Gull 20-08
0551 Black-headed Gull (Holland bird) 18-02
0570 Heermann's Gull 12-08
0580 Laughing Gull 19-10
0590 Franklin's Gull 9-05
0620 Sabine's Gull 8-01
0630 Gull-billed Tern 13-11
0640 Caspian Tern 29-06
0650 Royal Tern 28-07
0660 Elegant Tern 16-00
0670 Sandwich Tern 22-01
0690 Forster's Tern 15-10
0700 Common Tern 25-00
0710 Arctic Tern 34-00
0720 Roseate Tern 25-08
0740 Least Tern 24-01
0750 Sooty Tern 35-10
0761 Gray-backed Tern 25-09
0770 Black Tern 8-05
0790 Brown Noddy 27-01
0791 Black Noddy 26-03
0792 Blue-gray Noddy 14-00
0793 White Tern 35-11
0800 Black Skimmer 20-00
0810 Black-footed Albatross 40-08
0811 Wandering Albatross 34-07
0820 Short-tailed Albatross 17-04
0821 Laysan Albatross 50-08
0822 Black-browed Albatross 43-08
0860 Northern Fulmar 20-01
0890 Greater Shearwater 7-01
0900 Manx Shearwater 4-10
0932 Newell's Shearwater 5-01
0961 Wedge-tailed Shearwater 26-10
0963 Christmas Shearwater 22-09
0985 Dark-rumped Petrel 13-01
0988 Phoenix Petrel 11-04
0991 Bonin Petrel 22-10
1010 Bulwer's Petrel 22-11
1020 Cape Petrel 25-00
1050 Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel 17-01
1060 Leach's Storm-Petrel 31-01
1071 Sooty Storm-Petrel 13-08
1080 Ashy Storm-Petrel 31-00
1130 Red-billed Tropicbird 17-07
1131 Red-tailed Tropicbird 32-08
1140 Masked Booby 25-06
1150 Brown Booby 27-02
1160 Red-footed Booby 22-11
1170 Northern Gannet 26-11
1180 Anhinga 11-11
1190 Great Cormorant 14-04
1200 Double-crested Cormorant 22-06
1210 Neotropical Cormorant 12-07
1220 Brandt's Cormorant 17-10
1230 Pelagic Cormorant 17-10
1250 American White Pelican 31-06
1260 Brown Pelican 27-10
1280 Magnificent Frigatebird 14-06
1281 Great Frigatebird 43-00
1282 Lesser Frigatebird 27-07

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