Ivory Gull
Pagophila eburnea
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Laridae
La Mouette blanche (Pagophila eburnea), Mouette ivoire ou Goéland sénateur, est une espèce d'oiseaux marins Charadriiformes de la famille des Laridae. C'est la seule espèce du genre Pagophila. Selon la classification de référence du Congrès ornithologique international (version 15.
The ivory gull (Pagophila eburnea) is a small gull, the only species in the genus Pagophila. It is a resident breeding bird in the high Arctic and has a circumpolar distribution through Greenland, northernmost North America, and Eurasia. Taxonomy The ivory gull was initially described by Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave in 1774 as Larus eburneus from a specimen collected on Spitsbergen during his 1773 expedition towards the North Pole.
La gaviota marfileña o gaviota de marfil (Pagophila eburnea) es una especie de ave caradriforme de la familia de las gaviotas (Laridae). Es la única especie del género Pagophila. Se reproduce en el Ártico y tiene una distribución circumpolar a través de Groenlandia, al norte de América del Norte y Eurasia.
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