VOLUME 8: Sea Birds. The Gulls.
Terns. Petrels. Kittiwakes and many
others.
ARCTIC TERN...... . . Habitat:
Europe.Asia.America.Especially Melville
Island. Greenland. Iceland. Faroes.
Baffin's Bay. Norway. Sweden. Denmark.
Holland. Italy. Mediterranean. South
Africa.
BLACK HEADED (Laughing) GULL...... .
. Habitat: Europe. Asia.USA.Africa In
such countries as Russia. Sweden.
Holland. France. Germany. Italy.
Switzerland. Greenland. Baffin's Bay.
Davis Straits. Canada. Egypt.
BLACK TERN...... . . Habitat:
Europe.USA.Asia.Madeira.Especially
Holland. Sweden. Germany. Italy.
Switzerland. Denmark. Hungary. France.
North and South America. Tartary.
Persia. Brazil. West Indies.
BUFFON'S SKUA...... . . Habitat:
Europe.Canada.Arctic. In such places as
Baffin's Bay. Melville Peninsula.
France. Belgium. Iceland.
BULWER'S PETREL...... . . Habitat:
Europe.Madeira.
BUONAPARTE'S GULL...... . . Habitat:
Europe.USA. In such places as
Chesapeake Bay. Charleston. Great Slave
Lake. Scotland. Ireland.
CAPPED PETREL...... . . Habitat:
Europe.Australia.Atlantic. In such
places as Azores. Indian Ocean.
Pacific.
CASPIAN TERN...... . . Habitat:
Europe.Africa.Asia.Especially Russia.
Germany. Switzerland. Italy. France.
Corsica. Greece. Egypt. South Africa.
India. China. Hawaii. Friendly Islands.
CINEREOUS SHEERWATER...... . .
Habitat: Europe.Africa. Canada. In such
places as Mediterranean. Spain.
Iceland. 'Very abundant at Newfoundland
where it breeds'. South coast of
Africa.
COMMON GULL...... . . Habitat:
Europe.Canada.Asia. In such places as
Lapland. Norway. Faroes. Holland.
France. Italy. Spain. Persia. Caspian
Sea. Northern regions of America.
COMMON TERN...... . . Habitat:
Europe.USA.Asia.Africa.Especially
Germany. France.Italy. Mediterranean.
Norway. Asia Minor. West Africa.
Madeira. Canary Islands. Greenland. New
England.
CORMORANT...... . . Habitat:
Europe.USA.Asia.Especially Norway.
Greece. Switzerland. Russia. India.
Greenland. Canada and United States.
DUSKY PETREL...... . . Habitat:
Europe.Africa.USA. In such places as
South Africa. Mediterranean. Canary
Islands. Medeira. France. Italy.
Captain Cook .... . . Habitat:
Christmas Island. Bermuda. 'By the
(United) States to the Gulf of Mexico.
Florida and Georgia and other parts'.
Canada.
FULMAR...... . . Habitat:
Europe.Canada. In such places as
France. Holland. Faroe Islands.
Spitzbergen. Davis' Straits. Baffin's
Bay. Hudson's Bay. Greenland. Grimsey
Island. Breeds in Scotland - Hebrides.
St Kilda. Barra.
GANNET...... . . Habitat:
Europe.Africa.Asia.USA In such
countries as Sandinavia. Portugal.
Spain. North and South Africa. Medeira.
Greenland. Labrador. In the United
States as far south as Carolina.
GLAUCOUS GULL...... . . Habitat:
Europe.USA. In such places as Iceland.
Balytic. Scandinavia. Russia. Germany.
Belgium. France. Italy. Greenland.
Canada. Polar Seas. Arctic. 'also in
the United States'.
Great BLACK BACKED GULL...... . .
Habitat: Europe.USA. Asia. In such
places as Sweden. Faroes. Denmark.
France. Italy. Germany. Holland.
Norway. Iceland. Greenland. Baffin's
Bay. canada. Labrador. 'As far south a
Florida'. Caspian Sea.
GREEN CORMORANT...... . . Habitat:
Europe.USA.Asia In such countries as
Scandinavia. Finland. Corsica.
Sardinia. Cyprus.
GULL BILLED TERN...... . . Habitat:
Europe.USA.Asia. Africa.Especially
Hungary. Italy. Turkey. France.
Jutland. Holland. Egypt. Nubia. India.
East Indies. Jave. Northern United
States. South America.
HERRING GULL...... . . Habitat:
Europe.Africa.Asia.USA. In such places
as Iceland. Faroes. Norweay. Sweden.
Denmark. Holland. France. Italy.
Turkey. Madeira. Asia Minor. Black Sea.
Greenland. Mexico. Labrador. Bay of
Fundy. 'also about New York and
Philadelphia'.
ICELAND GULL...... . . Habitat:
Europe.USA. In such places as
Greenland. Davis Straits. Canada.
Iceland 'at times in great numbers'.
Sweden. Faroe Islands. Belgium.
Holland.
IVORY GULL (Snow Bird).... . .
Habitat: Europe.Canada. In such places
as Dabis Straits. Baffin's Bay.
Greenland. Labrador. Hudson's Bay.
Behring Strait. Newfoundland.
Spitzbergen. Holland. France.
KITTIWAKE...... . . Habitat:
Europe.USA.Africa.Asia. In such places
as Norway. Sweden. Faroes. Iceland.
France. Italy. Greenland. 'United
States to Labrador'. Tripoli/Libya.
West Africa. Caspian Sea.
LAUGHING GULL...... . . Habitat:
Europe.USA.Africa. In such places as
Italy. Sicily. Russia. Spain. Greece.
Mediterranean. Gibraltar. West
Indies/Tobago. Texas. New Jersey.
LEACH'S PETREL...... . . Habitat:
Europe.Canada. In such places as
France. Holland. Belgium. Newfoundland
and 'some parts of the copasts of the
north'.
Lesser BLACK BACKED GULL...... . .
Habitat: Europe.Asia. Africa.USA. In
such places as Norway. Baltic. Holland.
Belgium. France. Dalmatia. Italy.
Egypt. North and South Africa. Syria.
Asia Minor. Arabia. Red Sea. In America
'coming south to Carolina'.
LESSER TERN...... . . Habitat:
Europe.USA.Africa.Asia.Especially
Holland. France. Holstein. Denmark.
Norway. Sweden. Russia. United States
to the Gulf of Mexico. Canary Islands.
India. Siberia.
LITTLE GULL...... . . Habitat:
Europe.USA.Asia.Especially Russia.
Finland. Denmark. Holland. Hungary.
Italy. Germany. Switzerland. Tartary.
Siberia.
MANX SHEERWATER...... . . Habitat:
Europe.USA.Asia. In such places as
'Formerly very plentiful in the Isle of
Man whence its name'. Meditarranean.
Norway. Danish Islands. Faroes.
Iceland. Holland. Italy. France. 'From
Labrador down by Newfoundland to the
south through the (United) States.
MASKED GULL...... . . Habitat:
Europe.USA. In such places as Canada.
Baffin's Bay. Davis Straits. Italy.
Spain.
NODDY...... . . Habitat:
Europe.USA.Asia.Especially France.
Carolina. Gulf of Mexico. Florida. West
Indies. Bahamas. Tobago. South America.
Brazil. Cayenne. India. China Sea.
POMERINE SKUA...... . . Habitat:
Europe.Canada. In such places as
France. Holland. Swiss Lakes. Denmark.
Sweden. Norway. Arctic. Iceland.
Faroes. Hudson's Bay. Greenland.
RICHARDSON'S SKUA...... . . Habitat:
Europe.Canada.Asia. In such places as
Sweden. Norway. Denmark. Faroe Islands.
Scandinavia. Holland. Belgium. Russia.
Siberia. Greenland. Newfoundland.
Canada. Labrador. Hudson's Bay.
ROSEATE TERN...... . . Habitat:
Europe.USA.Africa.Asia.Especially
Norway. Sweden. Denmark. France.
Germany. Italy. South Africa. Madeira.
India. 'Plentiful in Florida'.
ROSS'S GULL...... . . Habitat:
Europe.Canada. Named after Captain Ross
RN who obtained the first specimen. All
found by Sir Edward Parry during his
2nd expedition. Melville Island.
Spitzbergen.
SABINE'S GULL...... . . Habitat:
Europe.USA.Especially Greenland.
Melville Peninsula. Behring Strait.
Newfoundland. Nova Scotia. Holland.
Rhine. France. Spitzbergen.
SANDWICH TERN...... . . Habitat:
Europe.USA.Africa.Asia.Especially
Sweden. Denmark. Germany. France.
Italy. Mediterranean shores. South
Africa. From Texas to Florida. Mexico.
Brazil. New Zealand.
SKUA...... . . Habitat:
Europe.USA.Africa. In such places as
Spitzbergen. Faroes. Iceland. Norway.
Scandinavia. Labrador. Newfoundland.
Canada. South America. Magellan
Straits. Tierra del Fuego. Falklands.
South Africa. Germany. Holland. France.
SOOTY TERN...... . . Habitat:
Europe.USA.Especially Bermuda. Cuba.
Georgia. Florida. Ascenion Island.
Christmas Island. Australia. Pacific.
Germany.
STORMY PETREL...... . . Habitat:
Europe.Africa.America. It obtained it's
name 'from its habit of walking
on
water as the Apostle St. Peter did or
essayed to do'. In such places as Swiss
lkaes. France. Holland. Italy. Madeira.
South Africa. Newfoundland. canada.
Faroes. Iceland. Scilly Islands.
Hebrides.
SWIFT TERN...... . . Habitat:
Europe.Africa.Especially Hungary. Red
Sea. South Africa.
WHISKERED TERN...... . . Habitat:
Europe.Africa.Asia.Especially France.
Italy. Hungary. Germany. Yugoslavia.
Egypt. Syria. Borneo.
WHITE WINGED BLACK TERN...... . .
Habitat: Europe.Asia. Africa.Especially
Mediterranean. 'Very common about the
Straits of Gibraltar'. Switzerland.
Italy. Spain. Norway. Sweden. Germany.
Black Sea.
WILSON'S PETREL...... . . Habitat:
Europe.USA.Africa. In such places as
Azores. Atlantic. Spain. 'On the coast
of Florida and is plentiful about
Charleston'. Canada. Nova Scotia. South
America. Chile. Brazil. North and South
Africa.