Bonaparte's Gull
Chroicocephalus philadelphia(Ord, G, 1815)
English (US) Bonaparte's Gull
The Bonaparte's Gull (Chroicocephalus philadelphia) 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 boreal forest zone from southwestern Alaska mainland across Canada to eastern Quebec (southeastern Canada); winters eastern North Pacific coast southward to west-central Mexico, inland southeastern USA, western North Atlantic coast and offshore Gulf Stream southward to the Bahamas and CubaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Chroicocephalus philadelphia
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Bonaparte's Gull
- Described by
- (Ord, G, 1815)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Sterna Philadelphia
- Described by
- (Ord, G, 1815)
- Type locality
- No locality = near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Original description
- A new geographical, historical, and commercial grammar; and present state of the several kingdoms of the world. Second American ed. Vol. 2. ed.2(Am.), 2 p.319
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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