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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)
Ring-billed gull Black tern. Order: Charadriiformes Family: Laridae. Laridae is a family of medium to large seabirds and includes jaegers, skuas, 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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
The greater crested tern is a large tern with a long (5.4–6.5 cm or 2.1–2.6 in) yellow bill, black legs, and a glossy black crest that is noticeably shaggy at its rear. The breeding adult of the nominate subspecies T. b. bergii is 46–49 cm (18–19.5 in) long, with a 125–130 cm (49–51 in) wing-span; this subspecies weighs 325–397 g ...