Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers

Laridae

105 species in the eBird taxonomy. Pages with photos and calls are below; the rest of the family is listed after them.

Other species in the family

  • Swallow-tailed Gull Creagrus furcatus
  • Little Gull Hydrocoloeus minutus
  • Ross's Gull Rhodostethia rosea
  • Red-legged Kittiwake Rissa brevirostris
  • Ivory Gull Pagophila eburnea
  • Sabine's Gull Xema sabini
  • Saunders's Gull Saundersilarus saundersi
  • Slender-billed Gull Chroicocephalus genei
  • Black-billed Gull Chroicocephalus bulleri
  • Andean Gull Chroicocephalus serranus
  • Brown-hooded Gull Chroicocephalus maculipennis
  • Brown-headed Gull Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus
  • Gray-hooded Gull Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus
  • Hartlaub's Gull Chroicocephalus hartlaubii
  • Gray Gull Leucophaeus modestus
  • Dolphin Gull Leucophaeus scoresbii
  • Lava Gull Leucophaeus fuliginosus
  • Pallas's Gull Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus
  • Relict Gull Ichthyaetus relictus
  • Audouin's Gull Ichthyaetus audouinii
  • Sooty Gull Ichthyaetus hemprichii
  • White-eyed Gull Ichthyaetus leucophthalmus
  • Pacific Gull Larus pacificus
  • Belcher's Gull Larus belcheri
  • Black-tailed Gull Larus crassirostris
  • Olrog's Gull Larus atlanticus
  • Heermann's Gull Larus heermanni
  • Short-billed Gull Larus brachyrhynchus
  • Yellow-footed Gull Larus livens
  • Western Gull Larus occidentalis
  • Caspian Gull Larus cachinnans
  • Kelp Gull Larus dominicanus
  • American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus
  • Vega Gull Larus vegae
  • Mongolian Gull Larus mongolicus
  • European Herring Gull Larus argentatus
  • Yellow-legged Gull Larus michahellis
  • Armenian Gull Larus armenicus
  • Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus
  • Slaty-backed Gull Larus schistisagus
  • African Skimmer Rynchops flavirostris
  • Indian Skimmer Rynchops albicollis
  • Atlantic White-Tern Gygis alba
  • Blue-billed White-Tern Gygis candida
  • Little White-Tern Gygis microrhyncha
  • Lesser Noddy Anous tenuirostris
  • Gray Noddy Anous albivitta
  • Blue-gray Noddy Anous ceruleus
  • Aleutian Tern Onychoprion aleuticus
  • Gray-backed Tern Onychoprion lunatus
  • Little Tern Sternula albifrons
  • Saunders's Tern Sternula saundersi
  • Damara Tern Sternula balaenarum
  • Australian Fairy Tern Sternula nereis
  • Least Tern Sternula antillarum
  • Yellow-billed Tern Sternula superciliaris
  • Peruvian Tern Sternula lorata
  • Large-billed Tern Phaetusa simplex
  • Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
  • Australian Tern Gelochelidon macrotarsa
  • Inca Tern Larosterna inca
  • Black-fronted Tern Chlidonias albostriatus
  • White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus
  • River Tern Sterna aurantia
  • Snowy-crowned Tern Sterna trudeaui
  • South American Tern Sterna hirundinacea
  • Antarctic Tern Sterna vittata
  • Kerguelen Tern Sterna virgata
  • White-cheeked Tern Sterna repressa
  • Black-naped Tern Sterna sumatrana
  • Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii
  • White-fronted Tern Sterna striata
  • Black-bellied Tern Sterna acuticauda
  • Elegant Tern Thalasseus elegans
  • Lesser Crested Tern Thalasseus bengalensis
  • West African Crested Tern Thalasseus albididorsalis
  • Chinese Crested Tern Thalasseus bernsteini

Taxonomy: eBird.org (Cornell Lab of Ornithology).