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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)
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.
Tulsa County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 669,279, [1] making it the second-most populous county in the state, behind only Oklahoma County. Its county seat and largest city is Tulsa, the second-largest city in the state. [2]
Terns are seabirds in the family Laridae, subfamily Sterninae, that have a worldwide distribution and are normally found near the sea, rivers, or wetlands. Terns are treated in eleven genera in a subgroup of the family Laridae, which also includes several genera of gulls and the skimmers (Rynchops). They are slender, lightly built birds with ...
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.
Laying eggs begins in mid-June and they commonly nest among other species of gull and tern to form mixed colonies, although some pairs will nest singly away from colonies. Away from the breeding areas this is a sociable species and feeds and loafs in flocks.
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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.