Gulls, Terns and Skimmers
Order: Charadriiformes. Family: Laridae
Laridae is a family of medium to large seabirds and includes gulls, terns and skimmers. They are typically grey or white, often with black markings on the head or wings. They have webbed feet. Gulls have stout bills while terns have long dagger-like bils.
- Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
- Franklin's Gull Leucophaeus pipixcan (A)
- Little Gull Hydrocoloeus minutus (A)
- Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus
- Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia
- Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
- California Gull Larus californicus (A)
- Herring Gull Larus argentatus
- Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides (A)
- Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
- Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus (A)
- Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus
- Sabine's Gull Xema sabini (A)
- Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla (A)
- Brown Noddy Anous stolidus (A)
- White Tern Gygis alba (A)
- Sooty Tern Onychoprion fuscatus (A)
- Bridled Tern Onychoprion anaethetus (A)
- Least Tern Sternula antillarum
- Large-billed Tern Phaetusa simplex (A)
- Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica (A)
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia (A)
- Black Tern Chlidonias niger
- Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii (A)
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea
- Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri (A)
- Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus
- Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis (A)
- Black Skimmer Rynchops niger (A)
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