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Flying Waterbirds

The flying waterbirds are web-footed birds. While they can and do swim, they are often observed flying over the water looking for food. When they find it they either pick it off the surface and keep flying, or plunge into the water from the air for food, then fly up to do it again. While the swimming waterbirds are represented by ducks, the flying waterbirds are represented by the gulls.

Flying waterbirds include skuas, gulls, terns, skimmers, albatrosses, shearwaters, petrels, boobies, pelicans.
South Polar Skua
:: South Polar Skua :: 		Pomarine Jaeger
:: Pomarine Jaeger :: 		Parasitic Jaeger
:: Parasitic Jaeger :: 		Black-legged Kittiwake
:: Black-legged Kittiwake ::
Sabine's Gull
:: Sabine's Gull :: 		Bonaparte's Gull
:: Bonaparte's Gull :: 		Laughing Gull
:: Laughing Gull :: 		Heermann's Gull
:: Heermann's Gull ::
Mew Gull
:: Mew Gull :: 		Ring-billed Gull
:: Ring-billed Gull :: 		Western Gull
:: Western Gull :: 		California Gull
:: California Gull ::
Herring Gull
:: Herring Gull :: 		Thayer's Gull
:: Thayer's Gull :: 		Glaucous-winged Gull
:: Glaucous-winged Gull :: 		Glaucous-winged x Western (Olympic) Gull
:: Glaucous-winged x Western ("Olympic") Gull ::
Herring x Glaucous-winged (Cook Inlet) Gull
:: Herring x Glaucous-winged ("Cook Inlet") Gull :: 		Glaucous Gull
:: Glaucous Gull :: 		Least Tern
:: Least Tern :: 		Gull-billed Tern
:: Gull-billed Tern ::
Caspian Tern
:: Caspian Tern :: 		Common Tern
:: Common Tern :: 		Arctic Tern
:: Arctic Tern :: 		Forster's Tern
:: Forster's Tern ::
Royal Tern
:: Royal Tern :: 		Elegant Tern
:: Elegant Tern :: 		Black Skimmer
:: Black Skimmer :: 		Laysan Albatross
:: Laysan Albatross ::
Black-footed Albatross
:: Black-footed Albatross :: 		Northern Fulmar
:: Northern Fulmar :: 		Short-tailed Shearwater
:: Short-tailed Shearwater :: 		Sooty Shearwater
:: Sooty Shearwater ::
Pink-footed Shearwater
:: Pink-footed Shearwater :: 		Flesh-footed Shearwater
:: Flesh-footed Shearwater :: 		Black-vented Shearwater
:: Black-vented Shearwater :: 		Leach's Storm-Petrel
:: Leach's Storm-Petrel ::
Townsend's Storm-Petrel
:: Townsend's Storm-Petrel :: 		Ashy Storm-Petrel
:: Ashy Storm-Petrel :: 		Black Storm-Petrel
:: Black Storm-Petrel :: 		Least Storm-Petrel
:: Least Storm-Petrel ::
Masked/Nazca Booby
:: Masked/Nazca Booby :: 		Brown Booby
:: Brown Booby :: 		Red-footed Booby
:: Red-footed Booby :: 		American White Pelican
:: American White Pelican ::
Brown Pelican
:: Brown Pelican ::

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