Slender-billed Gull
Chroicocephalus genei(di Brème, FAG, 1839)
English (US) Slender-billed Gull
The Slender-billed Gull (Chroicocephalus genei) 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 patchily on coasts and saline lakes from southern Iberian Peninsula to Central Asia, Pakistan, and coastal far northwestern India, also Mauritania and Senegambia; winters to coasts of Arabian Peninsula and western IndiaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Chroicocephalus genei
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Slender-billed Gull
- Described by
- (di Brème, FAG, 1839)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Larus Genei
- Described by
- (di Brème, FAG, 1839)
- Type locality
- Sardinia.
- Original description
- Revue Zoologique, par la Société Cuvierienne 2 p.321
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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