Brown-headed Gull
Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus(Jerdon, TC, 1840)
English (US) Brown-headed Gull
The Brown-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus) 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 Laridae (Skimmers, Noddies, Terns, and Gulls) in the order Charadriiformes.
Range: breeds inland Tibetan Plateau of Tajikistan, Xinjiang (western China), Ladakh (far northwestern India), and Tibet; winters inland and coastal Indian Subcontinent, southwestern China, and western southeast AsiaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Brown-headed Gull
- Described by
- (Jerdon, TC, 1840)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Larus brunnicephalus
- Described by
- (Jerdon, TC, 1840)
- Type locality
- West coast of Indian peninsula.
- Original description
- Madras Journal of Literature and Science 12, no.29 p.225
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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