Gulls & Terns in Arkansas
Our list for Arkansas has 9 gulls & terns recorded regularly there: 1 summer visitor, 5 winter visitors and 3 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Arkansas in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 9, most common first
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensisWinter visitorCommon43–54 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphiaWinter visitorUncommon28–38 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Black TernChlidonias nigerSummer visitorUncommon22–26 cmRegularly May–Sep
Forster's TernSterna forsteriWinter visitorUncommon33–36 cmRegularly Jul–May
Franklin's GullLeucophaeus pipixcanPassage migrantUncommon32–36 cmRegularly Apr–Dec
American Herring GullLarus smithsonianusWinter visitorUncommon53–65 cmRegularly Sep–Mar
Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscusWinter visitorRare52–64 cmRegularly Aug–Mar
Common TernSterna hirundoPassage migrantRare31–35 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Sabine's GullXema sabiniPassage migrantRare27–33 cmRegularly Sep–Oct
Smallest to largest
Length, cmData: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made