What is a Waterbird?

Waterbirds encompassed by the Waterbird Monitoring Partnership are seabirds (such as auks, albatrosses, storm-petrels, frigate birds), coastal waterbirds (such as gulls, terns, pelicans and cormorants), wading birds (such as herons, ibises and storks), and marshbirds (such as loons, grebes, bitterns, rails, and cranes).

Bird families of species included in the Waterbird Monitoring Partnership
Family	Species
Gaviidae Podicipedidae Diomedeidae Procellariidae Hydrobatidae Phaethontidae Sulidae Pelecanidae Phalacrocoracidae Anhingidae Fregatidae Ardeidae Threskiornithidae Ciconiidae Phoenicopteridae Rallidae Aramidae Gruidae Laridae Alcidae	loons grebes albatrosses shearwaters, petrels storm-petrels tropicbirds boobies, gannet pelicans cormorants darters frigatebirds herons, egrets, bitterns ibises, spoonbill storks flamingo rails, gallinules, coots limpkin cranes jaegers, skuas, gulls, terns, skimmers auks, murres, puffins