Caspian terns and a Herring gull, Hills Beach, Biddeford, Maine, August 31, 2017
These are the largest terns in the world.
Caspian tern in flight
Hills Beach, Biddeford, Maine, August 31, 2017
Royal Terns
Bunche Beach, Fort Myers, Florida, February 23, 2009
Forster's Tern, non-breeding plumage
Royal Terns (adult, left and juvenile, right) and Black Skimmer
Sanibel Island, Florida, February 28, 2011
Least Tern with sandlance
Popham Beach, Maine, July 23, 2014
Begging Least Tern chick
Popham Beach, Maine, June 2014
Least Tern and chicks
Least Tern chick begging
Popham Beach, Maine, August 8, 2014
Least Tern
Common Tern diving
Bailey Island, Maine, August 9, 2010
Common Tern with fish
Bailey Island, Maine, August 9, 2014
Common Tern
Common Terns gang fishing
Bailey Island, August 9, 2014
Least Tern bringing sand lance to nest
Popham Beach, Maine, June 26, 2013
Black Tern
Messalonskee Lake, Belgrade, Maine, July 19, 2013
Sanibel, Florida, January 19, 2013
Black Skimmer
Bunche Beach, Fort Myers, Florida, January 2015
Black Skimmer flock flailing the air
Bunche Beach, Fort Myers, Florida, January 19, 2013
Black Skimmer flock
Laughing Gull, breeding plumage
South Padre Island, Birding Center, Texas
Laughing gull, Reeds Beach, Cape May, NJ, May 21, 2016
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Laughing Gull
Popham Beach, Phippsburg, Maine, August 15, 2010
Laughing Gull, juvenile
Ding Darling NWR, Florida, January 2015
Ring-billed Gull
Sanibel, Florida, February 5, 2010
Bonaparte's Gull
Weskeag Marsh, South Thomaston, Maine, August 29, 2012
Herring gull, non-breeding, Popham Beach, Maine, September 10, 2009
note the red eye-ring
Herring gull, adult breeding, Damariscotta Mills, Maine, June 16, 2008
flight shot
Herring gull, 1st winter, Popham Beach, Maine, September 10, 2009
Note coarsely patterned primaries.
1st-year Great black-backed gull, heavily molted
Rockport, Maine, July 8, 2008
Iceland gull, first year, Salisbury, Massachusetts, January 23, 2010
Black-legged kittiwake, breeding plumage, Bonaventure Island, Quebec, July 16, 2010
Black-legged kittiwake, Seward, Alaska, May 20, 2015
Mew gulls, Resurrection Bay, Gulf of Alaska, May 21, 2015
Mew gulls roosting, Resurrection Bay, Alaska, May 21, 2015
