Anguilla Sea Birds

Sea birds that inhabit Anguilla on a permanent basis or as annual visitors. Photo credits and copyright to the Anguilla National Trust/Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

Sea Birds of Anguilla

Laughing gull
Laughing Bird or David
Larus atricilla

Ring-billed gull
Lanes delawarensis

Gull-billed tern
Sterna nilotica

Caspian tern
Sterna caspia

Royal Tern in flight.

Royal tern
Sterna maxima

Sandwich tern
Sterna sandvicensis

Roseate tern
Sterna dougallii

Common tern
Sterna hinindo

Least tern
Sterna antillanim

Bridled tern
Brown David
Sterna anaethetus

Sooty Tern

Sooty tern
E Bird
Sterna fuscata

Black tern
Chlidonias niger.

Brown noddy
Brown David
Anous stolidus

Black noddy
Anons minufs

Brown Boobie

Brown booby
Booby
Sula leucogaster

White-tailed tropicbird
Phaetlzon lepturus

Red-billed tropicbird
Trophy
Phaethon aethereus

Masked booby
White booby
Sula dactylactra

Red-footed booby
White booby
Sula sula

Brown pelican Pelican
Pelecanus occidentalis