Little Gull
Hydrocoloeus minutus(Pallas, PS, 1776)
English (US) Little Gull
The Little Gull (Hydrocoloeus minutus) 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 Baltic region eastward to Sea of Okhotsk and southward to northern Kazakhstan and northeastern China, also rarely Great Lakes, Hudson and James bays (east-central Canada); winters North Atlantic coasts and North, Mediterranean, Baltic, Black, and Caspian seasRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Hydrocoloeus minutus
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Little Gull
- Described by
- (Pallas, PS, 1776)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Larus minutus
- Described by
- (Pallas, PS, 1776)
- Type locality
- Rivers of Siberia and in Russia, restricted type locality, Beresov, Tobolsk, Siberia, fide Ridgway, op. cit., p. 650.
- Original description
- Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs 3 p.702
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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