On 10 September 1984 my wife, Beverly, and I attended a presentation by Mr. Dwight Cooley of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, on birds nesting on Gaillard Island in Mobile Bay, Mobile Coun ty, Alabama. Mr. Cooley stated that Gaillard Island was the first recorded nesting site in Alabama for the Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis), Laughing Gull (Larus atricilla), and Caspian Tern (Sterna caspia). He further indicated that the island was the site of the first substantial breeding colony of Gull-billed Terns (Sterna nilotica) in Alabama and that he expected Forster’s Terns (Sterna forsteri) to begin nesting there in the future.