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Ivory Gull

Pagophila eburnea

Classification

Class
Aves
Family
Laridae

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.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 336Canada · 127Iceland · 12Sweden · 12Norway · 11