Sabine's Gull
Xema sabini(Sabine, J, 1819)
English (US) Sabine's Gull
The Sabine's Gull (Xema sabini) 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 patchily on Arctic coasts of Greenland, Svalbard, and Siberia eastward to Chukotka Peninsula, St. Lawrence Island, western and northern Alaska, and Arctic Canada; winters coastal and offshore waters of northern South America to northern Chile and western Africa from Angola to southern AfricaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Xema sabini
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Sabine's Gull
- Described by
- (Sabine, J, 1819)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Larus Sabini
- Described by
- (Sabine, J, 1819)
- Type locality
- Sabine Islands, near Melville Bay, west coast of Greenland.
- Original description
- Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 12, pt.2 p.522 pl.29
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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