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Black-headed Gull

Chroicocephalus ridibundus

Classification

Class
Aves
Family
Laridae

The black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) is a small gull that breeds in much of the Palearctic in Europe and Asia, and also locally in smaller numbers in coastal eastern Canada. Most of the population is migratory and winters further south, but many also remain in the milder areas of northwestern Europe. It was formerly sometimes cited as "common black-headed gull" to distinguish it from "great black-headed gull" (an old name for Pallas's gull).

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United Kingdom · 697,736Netherlands · 439,056Spain · 226,815France · 141,934Germany · 95,980Italy · 42,075Belgium · 27,588Switzerland · 21,432Luxembourg · 391