Reflections of the Natural World

The Sandwich Tern is a pale medium-sized tern with a geographically variable bill pattern: black with a distinct yellow tip in most of its range Read more

The Black Skimmer, one of North America’s most distinctive coastal waterbirds, is noted for its unusual voice, bill, and feeding behavior. Read more

Unique smoky-gray gull with red bill. Breeding adults have a clean white head that blends seamlessly into the gray neck; nonbreeding adults have smudgy dark streaking on the head. Immatures are entirely dark brown with a yellowish or reddish bill with a dark tip. Almost exclusively coastal; usually seen in flocks loafing on beaches or… Read more

The Franklin’s Gull is a small, black-hooded gull that nests in small to very large colonies in marshes of interior North America. Read more

Laughing Gull is a slender, medium-sized gull with long wings. Medium-gray upperparts. Read more

Least Sandpipers are the smallest of the small sandpipers known as “peeps”—not much bigger than a sparrow. Read more