GULLS, TERNS AND SKIMMERS

GULLS, TERNS AND SKIMMERS
 

Black-legged kittiwake carrying shellfish
for dropping on a hard surface
by Marie Smith, Summerside, PEI

Black-legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)
Ivory Gull (Pagophila eburnea)  
Sabine’s Gull (Xema sabini)
Bonaparte’s Gull (Chroicocephalus philadelphia)
Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)
Little Gull (Hydrocoloeus minutus)
Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla)
Mew Gull (Larus canus)
Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis)
Herring Gull (Larus smithsonianus)
Iceland Gull (Larus glaucoides)
Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus)
Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus)
Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus)
Least Tern (Sternula antillarum) – H
Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia)
Black Tern (Chlidonias niger)
Roseate Tern (Sterna dougallii) – H
Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)
Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)
Forster’s Tern (Sterna forsteri) – H
Royal Tern (Thalasseus maximus)
Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger)