page_title: List of birds of New Hampshire
section_title: Gulls, terns, and skimmers
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of New Hampshire / Gulls, terns, and skimmers
caption_attribution_description: English: Laughing gulls
context_page_description: This list of birds of New Hampshire includes species documented in the U.S. state of New Hampshire and accepted by the New Hampshire Rare Bird Committee of New Hampshire Audubon. As of April 2010, the list contained 398 species. Of them, 110 are on the review list and five have been introduced to North America. Three are extinct and three have been extirpated. To this list are added 11 hypothetical species, and 18 species with eBird records since the official list was published through June 2020. These 29 species are also tagged. A few species whose only records are almost surely of escaped or released birds are not included here.
  This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds, 7th edition through the 61st Supplement, published by the American Ornithological Society. Common and scientific names are also those of the Check-list, except that the common names of families are from the Clements taxonomy because the AOS list does not include them.
  Unless otherwise noted, the species listed below are considered to occur regularly in New Hampshire as permanent residents, summer or winter visitors, or migrants.
context_section_description: Order: Charadriiformes   Family: Laridae
  Laridae is a family of medium to large seabirds and includes gulls, terns, kittiwakes, and skimmers. They are typically gray or white, often with black markings on the head or wings. They have stout, longish bills and webbed feet. Thirty species have been recorded in New Hampshire.
  Black-legged kittiwake, Rissa tridactyla
  Ivory gull, Pagophila eburnea (R)
  Sabine's gull, Xema sabini (R)
  Bonaparte's gull, Chroicocephalus philadelphia
  Black-headed gull, Chroicocephalus ridibundus
  Little gull, Hydrocoleus minutus (R)
  Ross's gull, Rhodostethia rosea (R)
  Laughing gull, Leucophaeus atricilla
  Franklin's gull, Leucophaeus pipixcan (R)
  Mew gull, Larus canus (R)
  Ring-billed gull, Larus delawarensis
  Herring gull, Larus argentatus
  Iceland gull, Larus glaucoides
  Lesser black-backed gull, Larus fuscus
  Slaty-backed gull, Larus schistisagus (R)
  Glaucous-winged gull, Larus glaucesens (R)
  Glaucous gull, Larus hyperboreus
  Great black-backed gull, Larus marinus
  Sooty tern, Onychoprion fuscata (R)
  Least tern, Sternula antillarum
  Gull-billed tern, Gelochelidon nilotica (R) (H)
  Caspian tern, Hydroprogne caspia
  Black tern, Chlidonias niger
  Roseate tern, Sterna dougallii
  Common tern, Sterna hirundo
  Arctic tern, Sterna paradisaea (R) (away from coast)
  Forster's tern, Sterna forsteri
  Royal tern, Thalasseus maxima (R)
  Sandwich tern, Thalasseus sandvicensis (R)
  Black skimmer, Rynchops niger (R)
caption: Laughing gulls
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