Immature Swallow-tailed Gull, Creagrus furcatus, 51 - 58 cm. / 20 - 22.8 in. COMMON. Spotted roosting among nesting gulls on the coastal cliffs.

Punta Suarez, Isla Espanola (Hood Island), Galapagos, Ecuador.

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Laughing Gull, Leucophaeus atricilla, 41.9 cm. / 16.5 in. COMMON and the most frequently seen gull along the South Atlantic and Gulf Coast, and at the Salton Sea, on sandy saltwater beaches and marshes.

Texas Dike, Texas City, Texas, USA.

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Forster's Tern, Sterna Forster, 13 in. / 33.02 cm. COMMON in open water and in marshes inland and around sheltered bays, tidal creeks.

Imperial Valley Water District Wetlands. Niland, Imperial County, California, United States.

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White-fronted Tern, Tara, Sterna striata, 35 - 43 cm. / 13.8 - 16.9 in. Oceanic; rocky reefs, sandpits and bars, jetties, groynes (sturdy timber barrier built out into the sea to check erosion), rarely inland. Breeding ENDEMIC, locally COMMON.

Lake Taupo, Turangi, Waikato Administrative Region, North Island, New Zealand.

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Andean Gull, Larus serranus, 46 - 48 cm / 18 - 19 in. Locally numerous around lakes in paramo and temperate zone.

Altiplanos of The Rio, Parinacota Province, Chile.

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