Ivory Gull
Pagophila eburnea(Phipps, CJ, 1774)
English (US) Ivory Gull
The Ivory Gull (Pagophila eburnea) 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 high Arctic islands from Greenland, Svalbard, Franz Josef Land eastward to Herald Island (northeastern Russia) and northern Canada; winters Arctic Ocean pack-ice edge to southeastern Labrador, Greenland, and Bering seasRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Pagophila eburnea
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- Ivory Gull
- Described by
- (Phipps, CJ, 1774)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Larus Eburneus
- Described by
- (Phipps, CJ, 1774)
- Type locality
- Spitsbergen.
- Original description
- A voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty's command 1773 App. p.187
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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