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Scientific Name:
Common Name:
Family (Alpha):
ACCIPITRIDAE - Kites, Eagles, & Hawks
ALAUDIDAE - Larks
ALCEDINIDAE - Kingfishers
ALCIDAE - Auks
ANATIDAE - Ducks, Geese, & Swans
ANHINGIDAE - Darters
APODIDAE - Swifts
ARAMIDAE - Limpkin
ARDEIDAE - Bitterns, Herons, & Allies
BOMBYCILLIDAE - Waxwings
CALCARIIDAE - Longspurs & Allies
CAPRIMULGIDAE - Goatsuckers
CARDINALIDAE - Cardinals, Grosbeaks, & Allies
CATHARTIDAE - New World Vultures
CERTHIIDAE - Treecreepers
CHARADRIIDAE - Plovers
CICONIIDAE - Storks
COLUMBIDAE - Doves
CORVIDAE - Jays, Crows, & Ravens
CUCULIDAE - Cuckoos & Anis
DIOMEDEIDAE - Albatrosses
FALCONIDAE - Falcons
FREGATIDAE - Frigatebirds
FRINGILLIDAE - Cardueline Finches & Allies
GAVIIDAE - Loons
GRUIDAE - Cranes
HAEMATOPODIDAE - Oystercatchers
HIRUNDINIDAE - Swallows
HYDROBATIDAE - Storm-Petrels
ICTERIDAE - Blackbirds & Orioles
LANIIDAE - Shrikes
LARIDAE - Gulls & Terns
MIMIDAE - Mockingbirds & Thrashers
MOTACILLIDAE - Wagtails & Pipits
MUSCICAPIDAE - Old World Flycatchers
ODONTOPHORIDAE - New World Quails
PANDIONIDAE - Osprey
PARIDAE - Chickadees & Titmice
PARULIDAE - Wood-Warblers
PASSERELLIDAE - New World Sparrows & Allies
PASSERIDAE - Old World Sparrows
PELECANIDAE - Pelicans
PHAETHONTIDAE - Tropicbirds
PHALACROCORACIDAE - Cormorants
PHASIANIDAE - Grouse and Allies
PHOENICOPTERIDAE - Flamingo
PICIDAE - Woodpeckers
PODICIPEDIDAE - Grebes
POLIOPTILIDAE - Gnatcatchers
PROCELLARIIDAE - Petrels & Shearwaters
PSITTACIDAE - Parrots
RALLIDAE - Rails, Gallinules, & Coots
RECURVIROSTRIDAE - Stilts & Avocets
REGULIDAE - Kinglets
SCOLOPACIDAE - Sandpipers
SITTIDAE - Nuthatches
STERCORARIIDAE - Skuas & Jaegers
STRIGIDAE - Owls
STURNIDAE - Starlings
SULIDAE - Boobies & Gannets
THRESKIORNITHIDAE - Ibises & Spoonbills
TROCHILIDAE - Hummingbirds
TROGLODYTIDAE - Wrens
TURDIDAE - Thrushes
TYRANNIDAE - Tyrant Flycatchers
TYTONIDAE - Barn-Owls
VIREONIDAE - Vireos
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LARIDAE Members:
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Anous stolidus
Chlidonias leucopterus
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Chlidonias niger
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Chroicocephalus philadelphia
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Chroicocephalus ridibundus
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Gelochelidon nilotica
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Hydrocoloeus minutus
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Hydroprogne caspia
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Larus brachyrhynchus
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Larus californicus
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Larus canus
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Larus crassirostris
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Larus delawarensis
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Larus fuscus
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Larus glaucoides
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Larus heermanni
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Larus hyperboreus
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Larus marinus
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Larus schistisagus
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Larus smithsonianus
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Leucophaeus atricilla
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Leucophaeus pipixcan
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Onychoprion anaethetus
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Onychoprion fuscatus
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Rissa tridactyla
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Rynchops niger
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Sterna dougallii
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Sterna forsteri
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Sterna hirundo
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Sterna paradisaea
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Sternula antillarum
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Thalasseus elegans
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Thalasseus maximus
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Thalasseus sandvicensis
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Xema sabini
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American Herring Gull
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Arctic Tern
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Black Skimmer
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Black Tern
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Black-headed Gull
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Black-legged Kittiwake
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Black-tailed Gull
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Bonaparte's Gull
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Bridled Tern
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Brown Noddy
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California Gull
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Caspian Tern
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Common Gull
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Common Tern
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Elegant Tern
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Forster's Tern
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Franklin's Gull
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Glaucous Gull
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Great Black-backed Gull
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Gull-billed Tern
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Heermann's Gull
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Iceland Gull
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Laughing Gull
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Least Tern
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Lesser Black-backed Gull
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Little Gull
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Ring-billed Gull
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Roseate Tern
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Royal Tern
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Sabine's Gull
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Sandwich Tern
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Short-billed Gull
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Slaty-backed Gull
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Sooty Tern
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White-winged Tern
General Comments
This European species has been quite regular in late summer and early fall at refuges to our North, especially in Delaware; however, the White-winged Tern seems not to stray much farther south. The only NC records are of one adult in basic plumage seen by several observers at Bodie Island lighthouse pond on 13 Aug 1994* (Chat
61:276-277
); and one in full alternate plumage seen and photographed by numerous birders at Cape Point (
Dare
) from 26 May - 2 Jun 2020* (Chat
84:96
). The last record has been reviewed and accepted by the NC BRC; photos are on the Carolina Bird Club Photo Gallery.
Breeding Status
Nonbreeder
NC BRC List
The species' status on the List of Bird Species of North Carolina: either Definitive, Provisional, or Extinct, as administered by the NC Bird Records Committee. The Provisional List contains species for which there are less than three accepted sight (i.e., non-documented) records. Species of unaccepted origin are not included on the List of Bird Species of North Carolina.
Definitive
State Status
none
U.S. Status
Definitive
State Rank
SA
Global Rank
G5
Coastal Plain
Two records (see above).
Piedmont
No records.
Mountains
No records.
Finding Tips
1/2*
Distribution
