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  2. List of birds of Oklahoma - Wikipedia

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    Laughing gull Ring-billed gull Least tern. Laridae is a family of medium to large seabirds and includes gulls, terns, kittiwakes, and skimmers. They are typically gray or white, often with black markings on the head or wings. They have stout, longish bills and webbed feet. Black-legged kittiwake, Rissa tridactyla (A) Sabine's gull, Xema sabini (A)

  3. Helm Identification Guides - Wikipedia

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    The Helm Identification Guides are a series of books that identify groups of birds.The series include two types of guides, those that are: Taxonomic, dealing with a particular family of birds on a worldwide scale—most early Helm Guides were this type, as well as many more-recent ones, although some later books deal with identification of such groups on a regional scale only (e.g., The Gulls ...

  4. Laridae - Wikipedia

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    Laridae is a family of seabirds in the order Charadriiformes that includes the gulls, terns (including white terns), noddies, and skimmers. It includes around 100 species arranged into 22 genera . They are an adaptable group of mostly aerial birds found worldwide.

  5. Black-legged kittiwake - Wikipedia

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    In 2004, the kittiwake population in the Shetland islands, along with the murre (guillemot) and tern [18] population, completely failed to reproduce successfully due to a collapse in sandeel stock. [32] Like most gulls, kittiwake forage at the surface of the water where they tend to catch their prey while in flight or sitting on the water.

  6. Common tern - Wikipedia

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    Colonies inland tend to be smaller than on the coast. Common terns often nest alongside other coastal species, such as Arctic, [62] roseate and Sandwich terns, black-headed gulls, [63] [64] and black skimmers. [65] Especially in the early part of the breeding season, for no known reason, most or all of the terns will fly in silence low and fast ...

  7. Gull-billed tern - Wikipedia

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    This is a fairly large and powerful tern, similar in size and general appearance to a Sandwich tern, but the short thick gull-like bill, broad wings, long legs and robust body are distinctive. The summer adult has grey upperparts, white underparts, a black cap, strong black bill and black legs.

  8. Cabot's tern - Wikipedia

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    Cabot's tern (Thalasseus acuflavidus) is a species of bird in subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, the gulls, terns, and skimmers. [1] It is found in the eastern United States and Middle America , the Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago, and in every mainland South American country except Bolivia and Paraguay, though rare in Chile.

  9. Aleutian tern - Wikipedia

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    The Aleutian tern, Onychoprion aleuticus (Baird, 1869) is a bird in the family Laridae, a family of seabirds in the order Charadriiformes that includes the gulls, terns and skimmers. The generic name is from Ancient Greek onux, "claw" or "nail", and prion, "saw". The specific epithet aleuticus refers to the Aleutian Islands. [2]