Gulls, Auks, and Allies

Auks, murres, and puffins | Plovers, surfbirds, and turnstones | Oystercatchers | Gulls and terns | Avocets and stilts | Woodcocks, snipes, and sandpipers

Auks, Murres, and Puffins (family Alcidae)

Razorbill Alca torda
Black Guillemot Cepphus grylle
Pigeon Guillemot Cepphus columba
Rhinoceros Auklet Cerorhinca monocerata
Atlantic Puffin Fratercula arctica
Tufted Puffin Fratercula cirrhata  
Cassin's Auklet Ptychoramphus aleuticus
Ancient Murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus
Common Murre Uria aalge
Thick-Billed Murre Uria lomvia

 

Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
Piping Plover Charadrius melodus
Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus
Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
Lesser Golder-Plover Pluvialis dominica
Black-Bellied Plover Pluvialis squatarola

Black Oystercatcher Haematopus bachmani

 

Black Tern Chlodonias niger
Herring Gull Larus argentatus
Laughing Gull Larus atricilla
California Gull Larus californicus
Mew Gull Larus canus
Ring-Billed Gull Larus delawarensis
Glaucous-Winged Gull Larus glaucescens
Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides
Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus
Great Black-Backed Gull Larus marinus
Bonaparte's Gull Larus philadelphia
Franklin's Gull Larus pipixcan
Thayer's Gull Larus thayeri
Ivory Gull Pagophila eburnea
Black-Legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla
Long-Tailed Jaeger Stercorarius longicaudus
Parasitic Jaeger Stercorarius parasiticus
Pomarine Jaeger Stercorarius pomarinus
Caspian Tern Sterna caspia
Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri
Common Tern Sterna hirundo
Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea
Sabine's Gull Xema sabini

American Avocet Recurvirostra americana

Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularia
Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda
Sanderling Calidris alba
Dunlin Calidris alpina
Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii
Red Knot Calidris canutus
White-Rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis
Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima
Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
Willet Catoptrophorus semipalmatus
Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
Wandering Tattler Heteroscelus incanus
Short-Billed Dowitcher Limnodromus griseus
Long-Billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa
Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica
Long-Billed Curlew Numenius americanus
Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicaria
Red-Necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor
American Woodcock Scolopax minor
Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes
Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melancleuca
Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
Buff-Breasted Sandpiper Tryngites subruficollis