Brown-hooded Gull
Chroicocephalus maculipennis(Lichtenstein, MHC, 1823)
English (US) Brown-hooded Gull
The Brown-hooded Gull (Chroicocephalus maculipennis) 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 and coastal southeastern Brazil, central Chile and Argentina southward through Tierra del Fuego, and Falkland Islands; some winter coastally farther northRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Chroicocephalus maculipennis
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Brown-hooded Gull
- Described by
- (Lichtenstein, MHC, 1823)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Larus maculipennis
- Described by
- (Lichtenstein, MHC, 1823)
- Type locality
- Montevideo, Uruguay.
- Original description
- Verzeichniss der Doubletten des zoologischen Museums der Königl. Universität zu Berlin nebst Beschreibung vieler bisher unbekannter Arten von Säugethieren, Vögeln, Amphibien und Fischen p.83
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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