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seagulls
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**updated Jan. 2024**
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Well, a bit more than "seagulls".... part 2 of order Charadriiformes, including:
auks (puffins!), skuas, gulls, and terns;
plus the sole taxa in order Phaethontiformes: tropicbirds.
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auks (family Alcidae)
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skuas & jaegers (family Stercorariidae)
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small gulls (family Laridae, various genera)
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terns (family Laridae, various genera)
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tropicbirds (order Phaethontiformes, family Phaethontidae, genus Phaethon)
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