Saunders's Gull
Saundersilarus saundersi(Swinhoe, R, 1871)
English (US) Saunders's Gull
The Saunders's Gull (Saundersilarus saundersi) 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 Yellow Sea coasts from Liaoning to Jiangsu (eastern China) and Songdo (northwestern South Korea); winters coasts of East China Sea from Japan and Korean Peninsula to northern VietnamRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Saundersilarus saundersi
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Saunders's Gull
- Described by
- (Swinhoe, R, 1871)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Chroicocephalus saundersi
- Described by
- (Swinhoe, R, 1871)
- Type locality
- Amoy, China.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1871, pt.2 p.273 pl.22
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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