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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 January 2025. Subfamily of seabirds "Seagull" redirects here. For other uses, see Gull (disambiguation) and Seagull (disambiguation). Gull (commonly seagull) Temporal range: Early Oligocene – Present Adult European herring gull Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum ...
The majority of these were in Russia with 2,500–10,000 along the Arctic coastline, 4,000 on the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago [8] and 8,000 on Franz Josef Land and Victoria Island. There were also estimated to be around 4,000 individuals in Greenland [ 9 ] and in the years 2002–03, 500–700 were recorded in Canada. [ 1 ]
Iceland gull (Larus glaucoides), juvenile, Cley Marshes Close-up of first winter individual.Wethersfield, CT USA. The Iceland gull (Larus glaucoides) is a medium-sized gull that breeds in the Arctic regions of Canada and Greenland, but not in Iceland (as its name suggests), where it is only seen during winter.
This species of seagull breeds colonially or singly on coasts and cliffs, making a lined nest on the ground or cliff. Normally, two to four light brown eggs with dark brown splotches are laid. These are omnivores like most Larus gulls, and they eat fish, insects, molluscs, starfish, offal, scraps, eggs, small birds, small mammals, and carrion ...
Kittiwakes are coastal breeding birds ranging in the North Pacific, North Atlantic, and Arctic oceans. They form large, dense, noisy colonies during the summer reproductive period, often sharing habitat with murres. They are the only gull species that are exclusively cliff-nesting.
Larus is a large genus of gulls with worldwide distribution (by far the greatest species diversity is in the Northern Hemisphere).. Many of its species are abundant and well-known birds in their ranges.
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Adults and immatures with winter plumage in Japan.. The black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) is a small gull that breeds in much of the Palearctic in Europe and Asia, and also locally in smaller numbers in coastal eastern Canada.