Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
Order: Charadriiformes. Family: Laridae
Laridae is a family of medium to large seabirds and includes gulls, terns, kittiwakes and skimmers. They are typically grey or white, often with black markings on the head or wings. They have stout, longish bills and webbed feet. There are 35 New Jersey species.
- Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla
- Ivory Gull Pagophila eburnea (A)
- Sabine's Gull Xema sabini (A)
- Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia
- Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus
- Little Gull Hydrocoloeus minutus
- Ross's Gull Rhodostethia rosea (A)
- Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
- Franklin's Gull Leucophaeus pipixcan (A)
- Black-tailed Gull Larus crassirostris (A)
- Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
- California Gull Larus californicus (A)
- Herring Gull Larus argentatus
- Thayer's Gull Larus thayeri (A)
- Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides
- Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
- Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus
- Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus
- Brown Noddy Anous stolidus (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
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- Black Tern Chlidonias niger
- White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus (A)
- Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida (A)
- Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea (A)
- Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri
- Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus
- Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis
- Black Skimmer Rynchops niger
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of New Jersey