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Swallow-tailed Gull

Creagrus furcatus

Classification

Class
Aves
Family
Laridae

The swallow-tailed gull (Creagrus furcatus) is an equatorial seabird in the gull family, Laridae. It is the only species in the genus Creagrus, which derives from the Latin Creagra and the Greek kreourgos which means butcher, also from kreas, meat; according to Jobling it would mean "hook for meat" referring to the hooked bill of this species. It was first described by French naturalist and surgeon Adolphe-Simon Neboux in 1846.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Peru · 644