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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 29 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 ...
Sabine's gull (/ ˈ s eɪ b aɪ n / SAY-bine or / ˈ s æ b aɪ n / SAB-ine) (Xema sabini) is a small gull.It is usually treated as the only species placed in the genus Xema, though some authors include it with other gulls in a wide view of the genus Larus. [2]
Black-legged kittiwake colony on Big Koniuji, Shumagin Islands The kittiwakes (genus Rissa) are two closely related seabird species in the gull family Laridae, the black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) and the red-legged kittiwake (Rissa brevirostris).
Laridae on Lake Baikal. The family Laridae was introduced (as Laridia) by the French polymath Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in 1815. [1] [2] Historically, Laridae were restricted to the gulls, while the terns were placed in a separate family, Sternidae, and the skimmers in a third family, Rynchopidae. [3]
The laughing gull (Leucophaeus atricilla) is a medium-sized gull of North and South America.Named for its laugh-like call, it is an opportunistic omnivore and scavenger.It breeds in large colonies mostly along the Atlantic coast of North America, the Caribbean, and northern South America.
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.
The genus Fulmarus was introduced in 1826 by the English naturalist James Stephens. [1] The name comes from the Old Norse Fúlmár meaning "foul-mew" or "foul-gull" because of the birds' habit of ejecting a foul-smelling oil. [2]
Steller's sea eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus), also known as the Pacific sea eagle or white-shouldered eagle [citation needed], is a very large diurnal bird of prey in the family Accipitridae.