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The California gull (Larus californicus) is a medium-sized gull, smaller on average than the herring gull, but larger on average than the ring-billed gull (though it may overlap in size with both). Although named after California , it can be found annually across most of western North America, from the Canadian prairie provinces in the ...
California gull (Larus californicus) After Brigham Young led the first band of Latter-day Saints into what is now Salt Lake City, Utah, the pioneers had the good fortune of a relatively mild winter. Although late frosts in April and May destroyed some of the crops, the pioneers seemed to be well on their way to self-sufficiency. However, large ...
The greater roadrunner is the state bird of New Mexico. This list of birds of New Mexico are the species documented in the U.S. state of New Mexico and accepted by the New Mexico Bird Records Committee (NMBRC). As of August 2022, 552 species were included in the official list. Of them, 176 are on the review list (see below), five species have been introduced to North America, and three have ...
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Belcher's gull or band-tailed gull Larus belcheri Vigors, 1829: the Pacific coast of South America. Size: Habitat: Diet: LC Black-tailed gull. Larus crassirostris Vieillot, 1818: coasts of the East China Sea, Japan, Manchuria and the Kuril Islands, to western Alaska in North America. Size: Habitat: Diet: LC Olrog's gull. Larus atlanticus Olrog ...
Audouin's gull, Ichthyaetus audouinii; Black-tailed gull, Larus crassirostris; Common gull, Larus canus (A) Short-billed gull, Larus brachyrhynchus (A) Ring-billed gull, Larus delawarensis; Western gull, Larus occidentalis (A) California gull, Larus californicus; Herring gull, Larus argentatus; Yellow-legged gull, Larus michahellis (A) Caspian ...
Yellow-footed gulls are native to the Gulf of California in Mexico. Most are non-migratory, but an increasing number have been traveling to California's Salton Sea and southwards to Sonora during nonbreeding periods. Their breeding habitat is the Gulf of California, where they nest, in April, either independently or in colonies.
Heermann's gull (Larus heermanni) is a gull resident in the United States, Mexico and extreme southwestern British Columbia, nearly all nesting on Isla Rasa in the Gulf of California. They are usually found near shores or well out to sea, very rarely inland. The species is named after Adolphus Lewis Heermann, nineteenth-century explorer and ...