You can draw this bird in three easy steps. They look nice on their own, but if you add a beach scene or have them perch on a smokestack, then it becomes a picture.
Species order and family: Charadriiformes, Laridae
Size: 17 in (43 cm)
This migratory bird arrives in winter at Japan’s shorelines, harbors, and estuaries. Because they will eat almost anything, they are sometimes called “beach cleaners.”
Colored pencils used for seagull
2. Add the beak, legs, and feet with the orangish yellow pencil. Remember that their legs are straight, with webbed feet.
3. Color in the wing with bluish gray and gray and then switch to black to draw the eye, the tip of the wing, and the tail.
2. With the orangish yellow pencil, draw the beak and feet.
3. Add definition to the wings with the bluish gray pencil, and then, with black, draw the eye and color in the dark tips of the wings.
Terns flock to shorelines in large groups, and they are members of the Sternidae family, part of the order Charadriiformes.
Pair of WHITE TERNS
Size: 11 in (28 cm) Cute in their white plumage.
White tern chick
Size: 9.4 in (24 cm)
Terns seem very long from their rump to the tip of their tail, and they have skinny little legs.
Members of the Alcidae family, part of the order Charadriiformes, these sea birds are excellent swimmers—they dive under water to catch and eat fish. They can also fly.
They can fly!
Plovers and Sandpipers
On winter beaches, you can see groups of plovers and sandpipers. Look closely and notice the length of their bills and the shape of their bodies.
Species order and family: Charadriiformes, Charadriidae Size: 6 in (15 cm) The slightly smaller ones with brown heads and short bills are snowy plovers. They live in groups on sandy beaches, tidal flats, and wetlands.
Species order and family: Charadriiformes, Scolopacidae Size: 8.3 in (21 cm) The slightly bigger ones with longer bills are dunlins. On sandy beaches, they peck at the ground to find crustaceans and insects to eat.
Plovers in flight
GREATER PAINTED SNIPE 
WITH CHICKS
Size: 9–11 in (23–28 cm)
The greater painted snipe is unusual among birds in that the female is more brightly colored than the male. It is also the male who incubates the eggs and raises the young.
They vary in color but they all have long, narrow bills for digging in the mud of a marsh or the sand at the beach as they look for food such as crustaceans and insects.
