Wild Bird Photography

Order: SHOREBIRDS AND RELATIVES (CHARADRIIFORMES ORDER)
Family: GULLS, TERNS AND SKIMMERS (LARIDAE)

Endangered Species
+ = Endemic Species
a = ABA Area Species



58 Species

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Species Locations

Elegant Tern




Genus Anous
a
Black Noddy (Anous minutus)

Genus Chlidonias
a
Whiskered Tern (Chlidonias hybridus)
a
White-winged (Black) Tern (Chlidonias leucopterus)
a
Black Tern (Chlidonias niger)

Genus Chroicocephalus
Brown-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus)
Grey-headed (hooded) Gull (Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus)
Slender-billed Gull (Chroicocephalus genei)
Brown-hooded Gull (Chroicocephalus maculipennis)
Silver Gull (Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae)
a
Bonaparte`s Gull (Chroicocephalus philadelphia)
a
Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)
Andean Gull (Chroicocephalus serranus)

Genus Gelochelidon
a
Gull-billed Tern (Gelochelidon nilotica)

Genus Hydrocoloeus
a
Little Gull (Hydrocoloeus minutus)

Genus Ichthyaetus
Mediterranean Gull (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus)

Genus Larus
European Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)
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Olrog`s Gull (Larus atlanticus)
Steppe (Barba) Gull (Larus barabensis)
a
Short-billed (Mew) Gull (Larus brachyrhynchus)
a
California Gull (Larus californicus)
a
Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis)
Kelp (Dominican) Gull (Larus dominicanus)
a
Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus)
a
Glaucous-winged Gull (Larus glaucescens)
a
Iceland Gull (Larus glaucoides)
a
Heermann`s Gull (Larus heermanni)
a
Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus)
a
Yellow-footed Gull (Larus livens)
a
Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus)
a
Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis)
a
Western Gull (Larus occidentalis)
a
Sabine`s Gull (Larus sabini)
a
Slaty-backed Gull (Larus schistisagus)
a
American Herring Gull (Larus smithsonianus)
a
Thayer`s Gull (Larus thayeri)

Genus Leucophaeus
a
Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla)
a
Franklin`s Gull (Leucophaeus pipixcan)

Genus Onychoprion
a
Bridled Tern (Onychoprion anaethetus)

Genus Phaetusa
Large-billed Tern (Phaetusa simplex)

Genus Rhodostethia
a
Ross`s Gull (Rhodostethia rosea)

Genus Rissa
a
Black-legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)

Genus Rynchops
a
Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger)

Genus Sterna
a
Caspian Tern (Sterna caspia)
a
Roseate Tern (Sterna dougallii)
a
Forster Tern (Sterna forsteri)
South American Tern (Sterna hirundinacea)
a
Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)
a
Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)
Snowy-crowned (Turdeau) Tern (Sterna trudeaui)

Genus Sternula
Little Tern (Sternula albifrons)
a
Least Tern (Sternula antillarum)
Saunders`s Tern (Sternula saundersi)

Genus Thalasseus
a
Cabot`s Tern (Thalasseus acuflavidus)
Lesser Crested Tern (Thalasseus bengalensis)
a
Greater Crested Tern (Thalasseus bergii)
a
Elegant Tern (Thalasseus elegans)
a
Royal Tern (Thalasseus maximus)
a
Sandwich Tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis)

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