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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. Gull - Wikipedia

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    The Pacific gull is a large white-headed gull with a distinctively heavy bill.. Gulls range in size from the little gull, at 120 grams (4 + 1 ⁄ 4 ounces) and 29 centimetres (11 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches), to the great black-backed gull, at 1.75 kg (3 lb 14 oz) and 76 cm (30 in).

  5. Tern - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. List of birds of Colorado - Wikipedia

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    In the U.S. state of Colorado 519 species of birds have been documented as of September 2022 according to the Colorado Bird Records Committee (CBRC) of Colorado Field Ornithologists. [ 1 ] This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds , 7th edition through the 63rd Supplement, published by ...

  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. Bonaparte's gull - Wikipedia

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    Bonaparte's gull in immature (first-winter) plumage, showing the tail band and brown wing pattern cited in Ord's description of the species. When George Ord first described Bonaparte's gull in 1815, he gave it the scientific name Sterna philadelphia, and the English name 'Banded-tail Tern'; [2] the description clearly identifies it as a bird in first-winter plumage, while "The slender and tern ...