Updated 11/14: kittiwake, gull
![Aleutian and Arctic Terns (© Nick Viani) Nome River, Council Highway, Nome, Alaska]()
![Aleutian Tern (© Nick Viani) Nome River, Council Highway, Nome, Alaska]()
![Aleutian Tern (© Nick Viani) Nome River, Council Highway, Nome, Alaska]()
![A Mixed Flock of Gulls (© Nick Viani) Yaquina Head Marine Garden, Newport, OR]()
![A Mixed Flock of gulls (© Nick Viani) Yaquina Head Marine Garden, Newport, OR]()
![A Mixed Flock of Gulls (© Nick Viani) Yaquina Head Marine Garden, Newport, OR]()
![Arctic Tern (© Nick Viani) Potter Marsh, Anchorage, AK]()
![Arctic Tern (© Nick Viani) Utqiagvik (Barrow) Alaska]()
![Arctic Tern (© Nick Viani) Westchester Lagoon, Anchorage, AK]()
![Arctic Tern (© Nick Viani) Westchester Lagoon, Anchorage, AK]()
![Arctic Tern (© Nick Viani) Westchester Lagoon, Anchorage, AK]()
![Arctic Tern (© Nick Viani 8/14) Pelagic birding event 41 miles offshore from Westport, WA]()
![Arctic Terns (© Nick Viani) Nome River, Council Highway, Nome, Alaska]()
![Arctic Terns (© Nick Viani) Teller Highway, Nome, Alaska]()
![Black-legged Kittiwake (© Nick Viani) Unalaska/Dutch Harbor, in the Aleutian Chain of Alaska]()
![Black-legged Kittiwakes (© Nick Viani) Unalaska/Dutch Harbor, in the Aleutian Chain of Alaska]()
![Black-legged Kittiwakes, Common Murres shared nesting (© Nick Viani) Resurrection Bay, Chiswell Islands, Seward, AK]()
![Black-legged Kittiwakes, Common Murres shared nesting (© Nick Viani) Resurrection Bay, Chiswell Islands, Seward, AK]()
![Black-legged Kittiwakes, Glaucous Gull (© Nick Viani) Resurrection Bay, Chiswell Islands, Seward, AK.]()
![Black Tern (© Nick Viani) Page Springs Campground, Frenchglen, OR]()
![Bonapart's gull]()
![Bonaparte's Gull (© Nick Viani) Eagle Ridge Park, Klamath County]()
![Bonaparte's Gull (© Nick Viani) Eagle Ridge Park, Klamath County]()
![Bonaparte's Gull (transitioning) - (Washington DC)]()
![California Gull (© Nick Viani) Rio Santa Rosalía, Mulugé, BCS, Mexico]()
![California Gull (© Nick Viani 8/14) Pelagic birding event 41 miles offshore from Westport, WA]()
![California Gull - juvenile (© Nick Viani 8/12) Grays Harbor, WA]()
![California Gull - Summer Lake, OR]()
![California Gulll (© Nick Viani) Pelagic Birding Trip 31 miles off Oregon Coast (Newport, OR)]()
![Cormorants, gulls, & Brown Pelicans (© Nick Viani 8/14) Pelagic birding event 41 miles offshore from Westport, WA]()
![Elegant Tern (© Nick Viani) Arcata Marsh Wildlife Area, CA]()
![Elegant Tern (© Nick Viani) Arcata Marsh Wildlife Area, CA]()
![Elegant Tern (© Nick Viani) Arcata Marsh Wildlife Area, CA]()
![Elegant Tern (© Nick Viani) Playa Hermosa, Guanacaste, Costa Rica]()
![Forster's Tern (© Nick Viani) Page Springs Campground, Frenchglen, OR]()
![Forster's Tern (© Nick Viani) Summer Lake Wildlife Area]()
![Forster's Tern (© Nick Viani) Summer Lake Wildlife Area, OR]()
![Forster's Tern (© Nick Viani 6/2) Wood River Wetlands, Klamath Falls, OR]()
![Forster's Tern - Klamath Wildlife Preserve]()
![Franklin's Gull (© Nick Viani) Malheur National Wildlife Refuge]()
![Gull (© Nick Viani) Carl Washburn Memorial State Park]()
![Gull (© Nick Viani) Harris Beach State Park, Brookings, OR]()
![Gull (© Nick Viani 8/10) Siltcoos River, birding by boat]()
![Gull (© Nick Viani 8/10) Siltcoos River, birding by boat]()
![Gull rookery]()
![Gull rookery, Homer Spit]()
![Gulls (© Nick Viani) Gold Beach estuary of Rogue River]()
![Herrmann's Gull (© Nick Viani) Crescent City Jetty/breakwater]()
![Herrmann's Gull (© Nick Viani) Humboldt Bay--North Spit Jetty, Arcata, CA]()
![Little Blue Heron, Royal Terns (© Nick Viani) Oasis Hotel Estuary, Loreto, BCS, Mexico]()
![Mew Gull (© Nick Viani) Seward, Alaska]()
![Mew Gull (© Nick Viani) Westchester Lagoon, Anchorage, AK]()
![Parasitic Jaeger & Elegant Tern (© Nick Viani) North Spit--Samoa Boat Ramp, Arcata, CA]()
![Parasitic Jaeger & Elegant Tern (© Nick Viani) North Spit--Samoa Boat Ramp, Arcata, CA]()
![Pelagic Cormorants & Glacous Gull (© Nick Viani) Unalaska/Dutch Harbor, in the Aleutian Chain of Alaska]()
![Red-faced Cormorants, Black-legged Kittiwakes (© Nick Viani) Resurrection Bay, Chiswell Islands, Seward, AK]()
![Red-legged Kittiwake (© Nick Viani) SeaLife Center, Seward, AK. Note]()
![Ring-billed Gull (© Nick Viani) Hatfield Marine Center, Newport, OR]()
![Ring-billed Gull (© Nick Viani) Las Gallinas Wildlife Ponds, San Rafael, CA]()
![Ring-billed Gull (© Nick Viani) Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge]()
![Royal Tern (© Nick Viani) Grand Plaza Hotel, La Paz, BCS, Mexico]()
![Royal Tern (© Nick Viani) Loreto Golf Resort & Spa, Nopoló, BCS, Mexico]()
![Royal Tern (© Nick Viani) Oasis Hotel Estuary, Loreto, BCS, Mexico]()
![Royal Tern (© Nick Viani) Playa Hermosa, Guanacaste, Costa Rica]()
![Royal Tern (© Nick Viani 1/21) Honeymoon Island State Park, Dunedin, FL]()
![Royal Terns (© Nick Viani) Oasis Hotel Estuary, Loreto, BCS, Mexico]()
![Sabine's Gull & Pink-footed Shearwater (© Nick Viani 8/14) Pelagic birding event 41 miles offshore from Westport, WA]()
![Sabine's Gull (© Nick Viani 8/14) Pelagic birding event 41 miles offshore from Westport, WA]()
![Sabine Gull (© Nick Viani) Yaquina Head Marine Garden, Newport, OR]()
![Sabine Gull Flying with a Mixed Flock of gulls (© Nick Viani) Yaquina Head Marine Garden, Newport, OR]()
![Western Gull (© Nick Viani) Carl Washburn Memorial State Park]()
![Western Gull (© Nick Viani) Crescent City Jetty, CA]()
![Western Gull (© Nick Viani) Crescent City Jetty/breakwater]()
![Western Gull (© Nick Viani) Playa Balandra, La Paz, BCS, Mexico]()
![Western Gull (© Nick Viani) Playa El Tecolote, BCS, Mexico]()
![Western Gull (© Nick Viani 8/10) Siltcoos River, birding by boat]()
![Western Gull (© Nick Viani 8/10) Siltcoos River, birding by boat]()
![Western Gull (© Nick Viani 9/15) Siltcoos River, Siuslaw National Forest, OR]()
![Western Gull feeding noisy juvenile (© Nick Viani) Hatfield Marine Center, Newport, OR]()
![Western Gull just after swallowing a starfish (© Nick Viani) South Jetty, Newport, OR]()
![White Pelicans and gulls (© Nick Viani) Summer Lake Wildlife Area, OR]()
![Yellow-footed Gull (© Nick Viani) Playa Balandra, La Paz, BCS, Mexico]()
![Yellow-footed Gull (© Nick Viani) Playa El Tecolote, BCS, Mexico]()

Aleutian and Arctic Terns (© Nick Viani) Nome River, Council Highway, Nome, Alaska

Aleutian Tern (© Nick Viani) Nome River, Council Highway, Nome, Alaska

Aleutian Tern (© Nick Viani) Nome River, Council Highway, Nome, Alaska

A Mixed Flock of Gulls (© Nick Viani) Yaquina Head Marine Garden, Newport, OR

A Mixed Flock of gulls (© Nick Viani) Yaquina Head Marine Garden, Newport, OR

A Mixed Flock of Gulls (© Nick Viani) Yaquina Head Marine Garden, Newport, OR

Arctic Tern (© Nick Viani) Potter Marsh, Anchorage, AK

Arctic Tern (© Nick Viani) Utqiagvik (Barrow) Alaska

Arctic Tern (© Nick Viani) Westchester Lagoon, Anchorage, AK

Arctic Tern (© Nick Viani) Westchester Lagoon, Anchorage, AK

Arctic Tern (© Nick Viani) Westchester Lagoon, Anchorage, AK

Arctic Tern (© Nick Viani 8/14) Pelagic birding event 41 miles offshore from Westport, WA

Arctic Terns (© Nick Viani) Nome River, Council Highway, Nome, Alaska

Arctic Terns (© Nick Viani) Teller Highway, Nome, Alaska

Black-legged Kittiwake (© Nick Viani) Unalaska/Dutch Harbor, in the Aleutian Chain of Alaska

Black-legged Kittiwakes (© Nick Viani) Unalaska/Dutch Harbor, in the Aleutian Chain of Alaska

Black-legged Kittiwakes, Common Murres shared nesting (© Nick Viani) Resurrection Bay, Chiswell Islands, Seward, AK

Black-legged Kittiwakes, Common Murres shared nesting (© Nick Viani) Resurrection Bay, Chiswell Islands, Seward, AK

Black-legged Kittiwakes, Glaucous Gull (© Nick Viani) Resurrection Bay, Chiswell Islands, Seward, AK.

Black Tern (© Nick Viani) Page Springs Campground, Frenchglen, OR

Bonapart's gull

Bonaparte's Gull (© Nick Viani) Eagle Ridge Park, Klamath County

Bonaparte's Gull (© Nick Viani) Eagle Ridge Park, Klamath County

Bonaparte's Gull (transitioning) - (Washington DC)

California Gull (© Nick Viani) Rio Santa Rosalía, Mulugé, BCS, Mexico

California Gull (© Nick Viani 8/14) Pelagic birding event 41 miles offshore from Westport, WA

California Gull - juvenile (© Nick Viani 8/12) Grays Harbor, WA

California Gull - Summer Lake, OR

California Gulll (© Nick Viani) Pelagic Birding Trip 31 miles off Oregon Coast (Newport, OR)

Cormorants, gulls, & Brown Pelicans (© Nick Viani 8/14) Pelagic birding event 41 miles offshore from Westport, WA

Elegant Tern (© Nick Viani) Arcata Marsh Wildlife Area, CA

Elegant Tern (© Nick Viani) Arcata Marsh Wildlife Area, CA

Elegant Tern (© Nick Viani) Arcata Marsh Wildlife Area, CA

Elegant Tern (© Nick Viani) Playa Hermosa, Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Forster's Tern (© Nick Viani) Page Springs Campground, Frenchglen, OR

Forster's Tern (© Nick Viani) Summer Lake Wildlife Area

Forster's Tern (© Nick Viani) Summer Lake Wildlife Area, OR

Forster's Tern (© Nick Viani 6/2) Wood River Wetlands, Klamath Falls, OR

Forster's Tern - Klamath Wildlife Preserve

Franklin's Gull (© Nick Viani) Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

Gull (© Nick Viani) Carl Washburn Memorial State Park

Gull (© Nick Viani) Harris Beach State Park, Brookings, OR

Gull (© Nick Viani 8/10) Siltcoos River, birding by boat

Gull (© Nick Viani 8/10) Siltcoos River, birding by boat

Gull rookery

Gull rookery, Homer Spit

Gulls (© Nick Viani) Gold Beach estuary of Rogue River

Herrmann's Gull (© Nick Viani) Crescent City Jetty/breakwater

Herrmann's Gull (© Nick Viani) Humboldt Bay--North Spit Jetty, Arcata, CA

Little Blue Heron, Royal Terns (© Nick Viani) Oasis Hotel Estuary, Loreto, BCS, Mexico

Mew Gull (© Nick Viani) Seward, Alaska

Mew Gull (© Nick Viani) Westchester Lagoon, Anchorage, AK

Parasitic Jaeger & Elegant Tern (© Nick Viani) North Spit--Samoa Boat Ramp, Arcata, CA

Parasitic Jaeger & Elegant Tern (© Nick Viani) North Spit--Samoa Boat Ramp, Arcata, CA

Pelagic Cormorants & Glacous Gull (© Nick Viani) Unalaska/Dutch Harbor, in the Aleutian Chain of Alaska

Red-faced Cormorants, Black-legged Kittiwakes (© Nick Viani) Resurrection Bay, Chiswell Islands, Seward, AK

Red-legged Kittiwake (© Nick Viani) SeaLife Center, Seward, AK. Note

Ring-billed Gull (© Nick Viani) Hatfield Marine Center, Newport, OR

Ring-billed Gull (© Nick Viani) Las Gallinas Wildlife Ponds, San Rafael, CA

Ring-billed Gull (© Nick Viani) Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge

Royal Tern (© Nick Viani) Grand Plaza Hotel, La Paz, BCS, Mexico

Royal Tern (© Nick Viani) Loreto Golf Resort & Spa, Nopoló, BCS, Mexico

Royal Tern (© Nick Viani) Oasis Hotel Estuary, Loreto, BCS, Mexico

Royal Tern (© Nick Viani) Playa Hermosa, Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Royal Tern (© Nick Viani 1/21) Honeymoon Island State Park, Dunedin, FL

Royal Terns (© Nick Viani) Oasis Hotel Estuary, Loreto, BCS, Mexico

Sabine's Gull & Pink-footed Shearwater (© Nick Viani 8/14) Pelagic birding event 41 miles offshore from Westport, WA

Sabine's Gull (© Nick Viani 8/14) Pelagic birding event 41 miles offshore from Westport, WA

Sabine Gull (© Nick Viani) Yaquina Head Marine Garden, Newport, OR

Sabine Gull Flying with a Mixed Flock of gulls (© Nick Viani) Yaquina Head Marine Garden, Newport, OR

Western Gull (© Nick Viani) Carl Washburn Memorial State Park

Western Gull (© Nick Viani) Crescent City Jetty, CA

Western Gull (© Nick Viani) Crescent City Jetty/breakwater

Western Gull (© Nick Viani) Playa Balandra, La Paz, BCS, Mexico

Western Gull (© Nick Viani) Playa El Tecolote, BCS, Mexico

Western Gull (© Nick Viani 8/10) Siltcoos River, birding by boat

Western Gull (© Nick Viani 8/10) Siltcoos River, birding by boat

Western Gull (© Nick Viani 9/15) Siltcoos River, Siuslaw National Forest, OR

Western Gull feeding noisy juvenile (© Nick Viani) Hatfield Marine Center, Newport, OR

Western Gull just after swallowing a starfish (© Nick Viani) South Jetty, Newport, OR

White Pelicans and gulls (© Nick Viani) Summer Lake Wildlife Area, OR

Yellow-footed Gull (© Nick Viani) Playa Balandra, La Paz, BCS, Mexico

Yellow-footed Gull (© Nick Viani) Playa El Tecolote, BCS, Mexico