Table 1. 

 colonies. 



Colonial species included in censuses of south Atlantic U.S. coast 



Common name 



Scientific name 



Brown pelican 



Double-crested cormorant 



Great black-backed gull 



Herring gull 



Laughing gull 



Gull -billed tern 



Forster's tern 



Common tern 



Least tern 



Royal tern 



Sandwich tern 



Caspian tern 



Black skimmer 



Pelecanus occidental is 

 Phalacrocorax auritus 

 Larus marinus 

 Larus argentatus 

 Larus atricil la 

 Gelochelidon nilotica 

 Sterna forsteri 



Sterna hirundo 

 Sterna albifrons 

 Sterna maxima 

 Sterna sandvicensis 

 Sterna caspia 

 Rynchops nigra 



Table 2. Total number of colonies and breeding birds and frequency of occur- 

 rence of gulls, cormorants, gulls, terns and skimmers of the south Atlantic 

 U.S. Coast, 1976. 



