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P. eburnea. Binomial name. Pagophila eburnea. (Phipps, 1774) Synonyms. Larus eburneus Phipps, 1774. Pagophila alba Gunnerus. The ivory gull (Pagophila eburnea) is a small gull, the only species in the genus Pagophila. It breeds in the high Arctic and has a circumpolar distribution through Greenland, northernmost North America, and Eurasia.
ISBN. 0-7136-7087-8. OCLC. 57006518. Gulls of Europe, Asia and North America by Klaus Malling Olsen and Hans Larsson is a volume in the Helm Identification Guides series of bird identification books. The book is intended to succeed Peter J. Grant's Gulls: A Guide to Identification as the standard identification work on Northern Hemisphere gulls.
The bill is short and straight to catch worms on the surface. Lapwings are slightly bigger and more colourful shorebirds. Their legs are longer than plover's but the bill is the same size with respect to the body. Black-bellied plover, Pluvialis squatarola. American golden-plover, Pluvialis dominica.
The Pacific gull is a large white-headed gull with a particularly heavy bill.. Gulls range in size from the little gull, at 120 grams (4 + 1 ⁄ 4 ounces) and 29 centimetres (11 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches), to the great black-backed gull, at 1.75 kg (3 lb 14 oz) and 76 cm (30 in).
Chroicocephalus. Chroicocephalus is a genus of medium to relatively small gulls which were included in the genus Larus until recently. [2] Some authorities also include the Saunders's gull in Chroicocephalus. The genus name Chroicocephalus is from Ancient Greek khroizo, "to colour", and kephale, "head".
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The common gull (Larus canus) is a medium-sized gull that breeds in cool temperate regions of the Palearctic from Iceland and Scotland east to Kamchatka in the Russian Far East. Most common gulls migrate further south in winter, reaching the Mediterranean Sea, the southern Caspian Sea, and the seas around China and Japan; northwest European ...
Bartholomew's map "Scilly Isles" This is a list of the islands in the Isles of Scilly. Inhabited islands There are five inhabited islands of the Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, United Kingdom (six if you count the tidal island of Gugh which is separated from St. Agnes at high tide). Name Image Coordinates Population Area (hectares) Elevation (metres) Bryher 49°57′14″N 6°21′22″W SV876361 ...