Hybridisation in terns is not as frequent as in gulls; however, some mixed pairings have been noted. Hybridisation between white-winged black tern and...

is known to have hybridised with Ring-billed Gull in Northern Ireland. Bird hybrid Hybridisation in shorebirds Hybridisation in terns Gamebird hybrids...

also a threat from hybridisation with the greater crested tern. In 2016, for the first time, Chinese crested terns were found breeding in South Korea. Setting...

paler brown tips, as have the tertials and scapulars. Hybridisation between this species and black tern has been recorded from Sweden and the Netherlands...

other tern species. Its call has been described as a high-pitched "kik"; the sound of a large flock has been called "deafening". Hybridisation between...

crested terns, is a genus of eight species of medium-large to large terns in the family Laridae. The species have a worldwide distribution in temperate...

Orange-billed tern is a colloquial name applied to a group of four large terns in the genus Thalasseus with orange bills, which are quite similar in appearance...

raided a protected fairy tern colony on at least six nights in November 2018. It killed at least six breeding adult fairy terns; directly or indirectly...

related to terns and skimmers, distantly related to auks, and even more distantly related to waders. Until the 21st century, most gulls were placed in the genus...

feet. Terns are a group of generally medium to large seabirds typically with grey or white plumage, often with black markings on the head. Most terns hunt...

presented here, and probably does not constitute a true ring species. Hybridisation in gulls Gull eggs Wikimedia Commons has media related to Larus. Olsen...

of terns. It was considered a monotypic genus until the Australian tern was split from the gull-billed tern. The genus Gelochelidon was introduced in 1830...

California least tern, while less-threatened birds, including black-necked stilts, American avocets, Forster's terns, and Caspian terns, are also preyed...

(Chroicocephalus serranus) is a species in subfamily Larinae of the family Laridae, the gulls, terns, and skimmers. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia...

feet. Terns are a group of generally medium to large seabirds typically with grey or white plumage, often with black markings on the head. Most terns hunt...

them. At tern colonies in coastal Maine, American herring gulls (L. smithsonianus) occasionally also attack nestling and fledgling terns but in a great...

Borders. Harvesting gull eggs on the Solent is said to benefit Sandwich terns (Thalasseus sandvicensis) that would otherwise suffer from predation and...

2008-08-15. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Noddies, gulls, terns, auks". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union...

2022-09-14. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Noddies, gulls, terns, auks". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union...

Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (December 2023). "Noddies, gulls, terns, skimmers, skuas, auks". IOC World Bird List Version 14.1. International...

alba), than to the majority of species termed egrets in the genus Egretta. Rare cases of hybridisation with little blue herons (Egretta caerulea), little...

breeds in small colonies on tundras and swampy Arctic estuaries, often nesting with other seabirds such as Arctic terns. It lays two to three eggs in a nest...

"Noddies, gulls, terns, auks". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 24 June 2019. "Silver Gull". Birds in Backyards,...

species by the IOC in 2021; it differs markedy in the dark red-brown, rather than green, body plumage. There is evidence for hybridisation between grey-headed...

binomial accepted for this species and it is classified in the family Laridae, the gulls and terns, in the order Charadriiformes. Within the Laridae, its closest...

shores and at river mouths. "Vega Gull". Avibase. "Noddies, skimmers, gulls, terns, skuas, auks – IOC World Bird List". IOC World Bird List – Version 14.2...

feet. Terns are a group of generally medium to large seabirds typically with grey or white plumage, often with black markings on the head. Most terns hunt...

mixed with other gull species and terns, hovering around their ship in order to benefit from the scraps rejected in their sewage water or thrown overboard...

worms, and crustaceans. In flight, in Oman With crested terns and a Caspian tern, in Kerala, India. With a greater flamingo, in Bahrain Paul Doherty &...

with age in some locations, with the changes relating to an increased volume of fish taken. Giant trevally also feed on fledgling sooty terns on Farquhar...