Gulls, Terns and Skimmers
Order: Charadriiformes. Family: Laridae
Laridae is a family of medium to large birds seabirds and includes gullskittiwakes, 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.
- Black-tailed Gull Larus crassirostris (A)
- Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
- Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus (A)
- Herring Gull Larus argentatus
- Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia (A)
- Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
- Franklin's Gull Leucophaeus pipixcan (A)
- Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla (A)
- Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis
- Royal Tern Thalasseus maxima
- Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri
- Least Tern Sternula antillarum
- Bridled Tern Onychoprion anaethetus
- Sooty Tern Onychoprion fuscata
- Black Tern Chlidonias niger
- Black Noddy Anous minutus (A)
- Brown Noddy Anous stolidus
- Black Skimmer Rynchops niger
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