List of birds of North America (Suliformes)

Order: SuliformesFamily: Fregatidae

Frigatebirds are large seabirds usually found over tropical oceans. They are large, black or black and white, with long wings and deeply forked tails. The males have colored inflatable throat pouches. They do not swim or walk and cannot take off from a flat surface. Having the largest wingspan-to-body-weight ratio of any bird, they are essentially aerial, able to stay aloft for more than a week.

• Great frigatebird, Fregata minor
• Lesser frigatebird, Fregata ariel (A)
• Magnificent frigatebird, Fregata magnificens

Boobies and gannets

Order: SuliformesFamily: Sulidae

The sulids comprise the gannets and boobies. Both groups are medium-large coastal seabirds that plunge-dive for fish.

• Blue-footed booby, Sula nebouxii
• Brown booby, Sula leucogaster
• Masked booby, Sula dactylatra
• Nazca booby, Sula granti
• Northern gannet, Morus bassanus
• Peruvian booby, Sula variegata (A)
• Red-footed booby, Sula sula

Cormorants

Order: SuliformesFamily: Phalacrocoracidae

Cormorants are medium-to-large aquatic birds, usually with mainly dark plumage and areas of colored skin on the face. The bill is long, thin and sharply hooked. Their feet are four-toed and webbed, a distinguishing feature among the Pelecaniformes order

• Brandt's cormorant, Phalacrocorax penicillatus
• Double-crested cormorant, Phalacrocorax auritus
• Great cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo
• Guanay cormorant, Phalacrocorax bougainvillii (C)
• Neotropic cormorant, Phalacrocorax brasilianus
• Pelagic cormorant, Phalacrocorax pelagicus
• Red-faced cormorant, Phalacrocorax urile

Darters

Order: SuliformesFamily: Anhingidae

Darters are cormorant-like water birds with very long necks and long, straight beaks. They are fish eaters which often swim with only their neck above the water.

• Anhinga, Anhinga anhinga