SPRING | GULLS...
WESTERN WASHINGTON
MAR  APR MAY JUN
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
South Polar Skua               3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
Pomarine Jaeger 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 4 3   3
Parasitic Jaeger     3 3       3 4 5 5 5 4 3 3 3
Long-tailed Jaeger             3 4 4 4 4 4   2   2
Common Murre 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
Pigeon Guillemot 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
Marbled Murrelet 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
Ancient Murrelet 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3
Cassin's Auklet 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
Rhinoceros Auklet 5 5 5 5 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
Tufted Puffin 3 3 3 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
Black-legged Kittiwake 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 4
Sabine's Gull       3 4 4 5 5 5 6 6 6 4 3    
Bonaparte's Gull 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 5 4 4 4 4 4
Little Gull 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2          
Franklin's Gull 2             2 2     3 3 3 3 3
Heerman's Gull 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 5 6 6
Mew Gull 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 6 5 5 4 3 3 3 3
Ring-billed Gull 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
Western Gull 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
California Gull 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 6
Herring Gull 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 3     2
Iceland Gull (Thayer's) 6 6 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 2 2 2  
Glaucous-winged Gull 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
Glaucous Gull 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 2 2 2 2
Caspian Tern     4 4 5 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
Black Tern                 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4
Common Tern           2 3 4 5 6 6 4 3      
Arctic Tern 2         2   5 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 4
Forster's Tern       2               3   2 2  
Laysan Albatross 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
Black-footed Albatross 5 5 5 5 6 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
Northern Fulmar 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 6 6 5 5 5 5 5 5
Buller's Shearwater     2                 2     5 5
Short-tailed Shearwater 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 2 2 2
Sooty Shearwater 4 4 4 4 4 5 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
Pink-footed Shearwater 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
Flesh-footed Shearwater               4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
Manx Shearwater 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel 4 4 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
Leach's Storm-Petrel
4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
                                 
1      Irregular 5    Uncommon                        
2      Accidental 6    Fairly Common                        
3      Casual 7    Common                        
4      Rare                          
                                 
SOURCES                                
Seasonal Information from A Birder's Guide to Washington, second edition;  Washington Ornithological Society            
Prepared by Marv Breece, with assistance from Randy Robinson and Matt Bartels