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Resident Birds of Terceira Island: Seabirds


Family Procellariidae

Calonectris borealis (Cory, 1881)



Puffinus baroli (Bonaparte, 1857)

(missing...)


Puffinus gravis* (O'Reilly, 1818)

(missing...)


Puffinus griseus* (Gmelin, 1789)

(missing...)


Puffinus puffinus (Brünnich, 1764)

(missing...)



Family Hydrobatidae

Oceanites oceanicus (Kuhl, 1820)

(missing...)


Oceanodroma leucorhoa* (Vieillot, 1818)

(missing...)



Family Sulidae

Morus bassanus*/** (Linnaeus, 1758)

(missing...)



Family Laridae

Chroicocephalus ridibundus*/** (Linnaeus, 1766)

(missing...)


Larus delawarensis** Ord, 1815

(missing...)


Larus fuscus*/** Linnaeus, 1758



Larus hyperboreus** Gunnerus, 1767

(missing...)


Larus marinus** Linnaeus, 1758

(missing...)


Larus michahellis atlantis Dwight, 1922

(missing...)


Onychoprion fuscatus fuscatus (Linnaeus, 1766)

(missing...)


Rissa tridactyla*/** (Linnaeus, 1758)

(missing...)


Sterna dougallii dougallii Montagu, 1813

(missing...)


Sterna hirundo hirundo Linnaeus, 1758














Family Stercorariidae

Stercorarius parasiticus* (Linnaeus, 1758)

(missing...)


Stercorarius pomarinus* (Temminck, 1815)

(missing...)


Stercorarius skua* (Brünnich, 1764)

(missing...)


* not listed as a resident species, but mentioned as a regular migrant.

** regular wintering

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