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.
Black-legged KittiwakeRissa tridactyla
Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
Silver GullChroicocephalus novaehollandiae
Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
Laughing GullLeucophaeus atricilla
Franklin's GullLeucophaeus pipixcan
Mediterranean GullIchthyaetus melanocephalus
Common GullLarus canus
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus
Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
California GullLarus californicus
Glaucous-winged GullLarus glaucescens
Iceland GullLarus glaucoides
Black SkimmerRynchops niger
Brown NoddyAnous stolidus
Black NoddyAnous minutus
Sooty TernOnychoprion fuscatus
Bridled TernOnychoprion anaethetus
Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
Whiskered TernChlidonias hybrida
Black TernChlidonias niger
Forster's TernSterna forsteri
Arctic TernSterna paradisaea
Common TernSterna hirundo
Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensis
Royal TernThalasseus maximus
Great Crested TernThalasseus bergii
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).