Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
Order: Charadriiformes. Family: Laridae
Laridae is a family of medium to large birds seabirds and includes gulls, kittiwakes, terns, and skimmers. They are typically grey or white, often with black markings on the head or wings. They have longish bills and webbed feet.
- Sabine's Gull Xema sabini
- Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia
- Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
- Franklin's Gull Leucophaeus pipixcan
- Heermann's Gull Larus heermanni Near-threatened
- Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
- Herring Gull Larus argentatus
- Brown Noddy Anous stolidus (A)
- Sooty Tern Onychoprion fuscatus
- Least Tern Sternula antillarum
- Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- Black Tern Chlidonias niger
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri
- Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus
- Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis
- Elegant Tern Thalasseus elegans Near-threatened
- Black Skimmer Rynchops niger
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