Black-headed Gull
Chroicocephalus ridibundus(Linnaeus, C, 1766)
English (US) Black-headed Gull
The Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) 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 southern Greenland, Iceland, and western Europe eastward across Russia to Yakutsk region (eastern Russia), southward through Caspian Seato northeastern China, also west-central Newfoundland (southeastern Canada); winters to Africa, southern Asia, and eastern North AmericaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Chroicocephalus ridibundus
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Black-headed Gull
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1766)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Larus ridibundus
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1766)
- Type locality
- European Seas.
- Original description
- Systema Naturæ. Editio duodecima reformata. Tomus I [part 1] p.225
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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