Birds Gulls

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Category Description:

Also known as seagulls, this family of birds, Laridae, also includes kittiwakes, terns, skuas and jaegers.

  • All About Birds: Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers  - Introduces the species found in North America with an identification guide, photographs, life history and sound clips for each one.
  • Animal Diversity Web: Family Laridae  - Galleries showing species within the family, including Noddies, Terns, and Dunlins, and a comprehensive range of gulls.
  • Atlantic and Mediterranean Yellow-legged Gulls  - Overview, detailed studies and papers, photographs and distribution maps.
  • The Bird Guide: Gull Identification in the Pacific Northwest  - Tries to present the complexity of gull identification in a simplified but accurate manner. With plumage terminology, aging gulls, Herring Gull versus Thayer's Gull, and hybrids.
  • Bob Lewis's Gull Site  - Self confessed certified gull freak, or larophile, shares his portfolio of hundreds of gull photographs complete with notes and viewer's comments.
  • Caspian Gulls in Suffolk, UK  - Edited, updated and more visual version of an article by Brian J. Small, originally published in Suffolk Birds 1999.
  • Dick's Birds: Gulls  - Extensive album of gull photographs, mostly European.
  • Frank Majoor  - Ecologist from the Netherlands decribes his work co-ordinating projects at Sovon Bird Research, and gives information on his hobby on bird ringing research, with an emphasis on gulls.
  • Gull Identification  - With images and descriptions of recognised species and subspecies, and hybrids, plus guides to abbreviations, shades of mantle gray, aging gulls, variability of plumage, and moult timings.
  • Gull Research Organisation  - Group studying and recording European gulls. Includes a forum, and guides to several species.
  • Lovely Larids  - Discusses Caspian and Yellow-legged gulls that inhabit Donegal.
  • The Norwegian Gull Page  - Aims to to provide an identification reference on NW European gulls, a bird with numerous individual and geographical variations. Includes species and topography.
  • RSPB: Terns  - A guide to terns commonly found in the UK.
  • Surfbirds: Gulls and Terns of North America  - Provides photographs to aid in identification, and a short text on the Ring-billed Gull, Herring Gull, Laughing Gull, and Forster's Tern.
  • The Ugly Gull Page  - An identification forum for identifying the challenging gulls that don't look exactly like the pictures in the field guide. Includes a quick key to gulls of the North coast of Oregon.
 
 
 
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