Water birds called aerialist are birds which forage on the slender wing, moving slowly along the coastlines, lake shores, rivers, and marshes keeping constant watch on the water and shores in search for a piece of food.

Aerialist include: brown pelican, frigatebird, gulls, skimmers, and terns.

In this gallery, there are three orders, Charadriiforms (gulls ane terns), Pelecaniforms (pelicans), and Sulifomes (frigatebirds).

Orders include: Charadriiformes, one Family; Pelecanifomes, one Family; Suliformes, one Family.

The Charadriiforms has one family with many genus and species.

The Pelican and Frigitebird orders each have only one family, one genus and one specie.

024bl Black Tern, Chidonias niger, L 10 inches

024wh White-winged Tern, Chidonias leucopetus, L 10 inches (Eurasian)

019bl Black-headed Gull, Chroicocephalus ridibundus, L 16 inches

019bo Bonaparte′s Gull, Chroicocephalus philadelphia, L 13 inches

024gu Gull-billed Tern, Gelochelidon nilotica, L 14 inches

019li Little Gull, Hydrocoloeus minutus, L 11 inches

022ca Caspian Tern, Hydroprogne caspia, L 21 inches

015le Lesser Black-backed Gull, Larus fuscus, L 21 inches

015gr Great Black-backed Gull, Larus marinus, L 30 inches

016ca California Gull, Larus californicus, L 21 inches

016co Common (Mew) Gull, Larus canus, L 16 inches

016ri Ring-billed Gull, Larus delawarensis, L 18 inches

016yf Yellow-footed Gull, Larus livens, L 27 inches (Mexican)

016yl Yellow-legged Gull, Larus cachinnans, L 26 inches (Old World in east)

017gl Glaucous Gull, Larus hyperboreus, L 27 inches

017he Herring Gull, Larus argentatus, L 25 inches

017ic Iceland Gull, Larus glauciodes, L 22 inches

017th Thayer′s Gull, Larus thayeri, L 23 inches

018gl Glaucous-winged Gull, Larus glaucescens, L 26 inches

018he Heermann′s Gull, Larus heermanni, L 19 inches

018we Western Gull, Larus occidentalis, L 25 inches

019la Laughing Gull, Leocophaeus atricilla, L 17 inches

019fr Fanklin′s Gull, Leocophaeus pipixcan, L 15 inches

015bl Black Skimmer, Rynchops niger, L 18 inches

023ar Artic Tern, Sterna paradisaea L 15 inches

023co Common Tern, Sterna hirundo L 14 inches

023fo Forster′s Tern, Sterna forsteri L 14 inches

023ro Roseate Tern, Sterna dougalli L 15 inches

024le Least Tern, Sturnula antillarun, L 9 inches

022el Elegant Tern, Thalaseus elegans, L 17 inches

022ro Royal Tern, Thalasseus maxima, L 20 inches

024sa Sandwich Tern, Thalasseus sandvicensis L 15 inches

014br Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, L 48 inches

014fr Magnificent Frigatebird, Fregata magnificens, L 40 inches