MatBio: BIRDS - Matanzas Biodiversity

Welcome to our series of field guides - part of the MatBio Initiative at the Whitney Laboratory of Marine Bioscience! Our guides document the plant and animal species living in the Matanzas Basin, a coastal ecosystem stretching from St. Augustine to Palm Coast in NE Florida. They are works in ...more ↓

Black Tern ¹
Chlidonias niger

Herring Gull ²
Larus argentatus

Laughing Gull ³
Leucophaeus atricilla

Ring-billed Gull ⁴
Larus delawarensis

Lesser Black-backed Gull ⁵
Larus fuscus

Glaucous Gull ⁶
Larus hyperboreus

Great Black-backed Gull ⁷
Larus marinus

Bonaparte's Gull ⁸
Chroicocephalus philadelphia

Least Tern ⁹
Sternula antillarum

Caspian Tern ⁸
Hydroprogne caspia

Roseate Tern ¹⁰
Sterna dougallii

Forster's Tern ¹¹
Sterna forsteri

Common Tern ¹²
Sterna hirundo

Royal Tern ¹³
Thalasseus maximus

Gull-billed Tern ¹⁴
Gelochelidon nilotica

Sandwich Tern ¹⁵
Thalasseus sandvicensis

Black Skimmer ¹⁶
Rynchops niger

Edited by matbio and Jose Nunez

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MatBio: BIRDS - Matanzas Biodiversity

Black Tern 1 Chlidonias niger

Herring Gull 2 Larus argentatus

Laughing Gull 3 Leucophaeus atricilla

Ring-billed Gull 4 Larus delawarensis

Lesser Black-backed Gull 5 Larus fuscus

Glaucous Gull 6 Larus hyperboreus

Great Black-backed Gull 7 Larus marinus

Bonaparte's Gull 8 Chroicocephalus philadelphia

Least Tern 9 Sternula antillarum

Caspian Tern 8 Hydroprogne caspia

Roseate Tern 10 Sterna dougallii

Forster's Tern 11 Sterna forsteri

Common Tern 12 Sterna hirundo

Royal Tern 13 Thalasseus maximus

Gull-billed Tern 14 Gelochelidon nilotica

Sandwich Tern 15 Thalasseus sandvicensis

Black Skimmer 16 Rynchops niger