Chionis albus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Chionidae
- Genus
- Chionis
- Species
- Chionis albus
- Scientific Name
- Chionis albus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Snowy sheathbill
The snowy sheathbill (Chionis albus), also known as the greater sheathbill, pale-faced sheathbill, and paddy, is one of two species of sheathbill. It is usually found on the ground. It is the only land bird native to the Antarctic continent.
...Chionis albus in languages:
- Arabic
- غمدي المنقار الثلجي
- Bokmål
- Antarktisslirenebb
- Czech
- štítonos světlezobý
- Danish
- Gulnæbbet Skedenæb
- Dutch
- Zuidpoolkip
- English
- Snowy Sheathbill
- Finnish
- keltatuppinokka
- French
- Chionis blanc
- German
- Weißgesicht-Scheidenschnabel
- German
- Weißgesichtscheidenschnabel
- Hungarian
- falklandi tokoscsőrű
- Italian
- Chione bianco
- Japanese
- サヤハシチドリ
- Polish
- Pochwodziób żółtodzioby
- Portuguese
- Pomba-antártica
- Portuguese
- pomba-antártica-branca
- Russian
- Белая ржанка
- Thai
- นกชีธบิลสโนวี
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