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Gull-billed Tern

Sterna nilotica ORDER: CHARADRIIFORMES FAMILY: LARIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

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Gull-billed Tern Photo

© 2004 Cornell Lab of Ornithology

A medium-sized tern with broader wings and a thicker bill than most other terns, the Gull-billed Tern is found along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States and very southern California.

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    Recorded by Donald S. & Marian P. McChesney; Robert C. Stein, William W. H. Gunn
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Call a slightly upslurred "kay-wek."

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