Snowy Sheathbill
Chionis albus(Gmelin, JF, 1789)
English (US) Snowy Sheathbill
The Snowy Sheathbill (Chionis albus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Chionidae (Sheathbills) in the order Charadriiformes.
Range: breeds Antarctic Peninsula and satellite islands, South Shetland, South Orkney, and South Georgia islands; winters to coastal south-central Chile and east-central Argentina to Cape Horn and Falkland IslandsRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Chionis albus
- Family
- Chionidae (Sheathbills)
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Snowy Sheathbill
- Described by
- (Gmelin, JF, 1789)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Vaginalis alba
- Described by
- (Gmelin, JF, 1789)
- Type locality
- New Zealand, error, Falkland Islands substituted by Brabourne and Chubb, Bds. S. Am., 1912, p. 36.
- Original description
- Systema Naturae. Editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata. Cura Jo. Frid. Gmelin (etc.). Tomus I. Pars II 1 pt2 p.705
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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