Hey, ask and you shall receive! Here’s a photo of them in flight! Laughing gulls. If they were terns, they’d have more slender, almost scimitar-shaped wings.

It could be, but my bet is that it’s another laughing gull. Notice how dark its mantle is, for one thing. It would be easier if you saw it in flight.

Yup. This and the above bird are the same species, I think.

Looks like it to me

Might be a gull-billed tern

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Gull-billed_Tern/id

Maybe laughing gull? There about half a dozen gulls with black heads and gray backs listed for Mexico, but this is the only one with a range that includes Yucatan.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Laughing_Gull/overview

Funny guy - looks more like a mirabilis prostrata in the link

This gull looks like maybe an immature black-legged kittiwake

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=Mirabilis+prostrata

Did you notice.. he has a bad leg!

I’ll butt in here. They’re typical if you live in Mexico, but this isn’t the one you’ll see up north. This is a Tropical Mockingbird, and ours is the Northern Mockingbird. They’re very similar though - same general look and behavior, and both great songsters.

Beautiful picture! I wonder if we will see any of these in the summer.

You two are very memorable!

Is this a 'Typical' Mockingbird?

Great shot! The laugh’s on you though. It’s an osprey, the same species we see in the north in the summer. The ones that nest on Sauvie Island in Portland start arriving in about late March, I think - about exactly when the sandhill cranes move north to their nesting sight. Watch for them when you get home.

Osprey. The laughing falcon’s mask is wider and covers the cheeks. Also, I believe ospreys are larger.