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Gulls and terns haunt coasts and inland waters worldwide. Gulls are often opportunists that eat almost anything. Terns are slimmer and more graceful in flight. They plunge into the water to catch fish. Many nest in noisy colonies on beaches or cliffs. Their plumage is often white and grey.
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Laridae
Sterna paradisaea · Least concern
The Arctic tern makes the longest migrations known in the animal kingdom, flying from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back each year: about 70,900 km for birds nesting in Iceland and Greenland. Over a lifetime that adds up to some 2.4 million km, more than three return trips to the Moon.
Photo: W. Bulach (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Laridae
Chroicocephalus ridibundus · Least concern
Black-headed gull parents remove the eggshells from the nest once the chicks hatch, a habit that helps keep the nest hidden from predators. These gulls are long-lived, with a wild bird reaching at least 32.9 years, and number 2 to 3 million pairs worldwide.
Photo: Diliff (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Laridae
Chlidonias niger · Least concern
Draining its marshes wiped out the black tern's English breeding population around 1840. Since then the bird has tried again and again to return, with only a handful of nests recorded in England, and one in Ireland, in the second half of the 20th century.
Photo: Andrej Chudý from Slovakia (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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