page_title: List of birds of the Isle of Man
section_title: Gulls, terns, and skimmers
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of the Isle of Man / Gulls, terns, and skimmers
caption_attribution_description: Sternula albifrons（小燕鷗）, Changhua County, Taiwan, 2007.
context_page_description: As of 2018, some 333 species of bird have been recorded in the wild on the Isle of Man, a self-governing island in the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Ireland. Over 100 species breed there, including significant populations of red-billed chough, peregrine falcon and hen harrier.
  A variety of seabirds breed on the coastal cliffs such as Atlantic puffin, black guillemot, black-legged kittiwake, European shag and northern fulmar. The island gives its name to the Manx shearwater which formerly nested in large numbers on the Calf of Man. The colony disappeared following the arrival of rats but the shearwaters began to return in the 1960s. The Ayres in the north of the island have colonies of little tern, Arctic tern and common tern.
  Moorland areas on the island are home to red grouse, Eurasian curlew and northern raven. Woodland birds include long-eared owl, common treecreeper, Eurasian blackcap and common chiffchaff. There is little native woodland on the island and several species found in Great Britain, such as tawny owl, Eurasian green woodpecker and Eurasian jay, do not breed on the isle of Man.
context_section_description: Order: Charadriiformes   Family: Laridae
  Sabine's gull, Xema sabini A, rare
  Black-legged kittiwake, Rissa tridactyla A
  Black-headed gull, Chroicocephalus ridibundus A
  Little gull, Hydrocoloeus minutus A, rare
  Mediterranean gull, Ichthyaetus melanocephalus A, rare
  Common gull, Larus canus A
  Ring-billed gull, Larus delawarensis A, rare
  Lesser black-backed gull, Larus fuscus A
  European herring gull, Larus argentatus A
  Yellow-legged gull, Larus michahellis A, rare
  Iceland gull, Larus glaucoides A, rare
  Glaucous gull, Larus hyperboreus A, rare
  Great black-backed gull, Larus marinus A
  Bridled tern, Onychoprion anaethetus A, rare
  Little tern, Sternula albifrons A
  Black tern, Chlidonias niger A, rare
  Sandwich tern, Thalasseus sandvicensis A
  Common tern, Sterna hirundo A
  Roseate tern, Sterna dougallii A, rare
  Arctic tern, Sterna paradisaea A
caption: Little tern
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