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Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers (Laridae)

Meet the 28 Puerto Rico bird records in the family Laridae.

28birds in this collection
AI reconstruction of Little Gull (Hydrocoloeus minutus)AI
Little Gull
AI reconstruction of Black-legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)AI
Black-legged Kittiwake
AI reconstruction of Bonaparte's Gull (Chroicocephalus philadelphia)AI
Bonaparte's Gull

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Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers (Laridae)

Meet the 28 Puerto Rico bird records in the family Laridae.

AI reconstruction of Sooty Tern (Onychoprion fuscatus)AI
0150
Native / natural occurrenceIUCN LC

Sooty Tern

Charrán Oscuro

Onychoprion fuscatus

open-ocean↗
AI reconstruction of Least Tern (Sternula antillarum)AI
0152
Native / natural occurrenceIUCN LC

Least Tern

Charrán Mínimo

Sternula antillarum

Sandy beaches; salt flats; coastal cays↗
AI reconstruction of Roseate Tern (Sterna dougallii)AI
0160
Native / natural occurrenceIUCN LC

Roseate Tern

Charrán Rosado

Sterna dougallii

Offshore cays; sandy/rocky nesting islands; marine feeding waters↗

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