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Common Gull
Larus canusLinnaeus, 1758
Native
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The common gull is a gull that breeds in cool temperate regions of the Palearctic from Iceland and Scotland east to Kamchatka in the Russian Far East. Most common gulls migrate further south in winter, reaching the Mediterranean Sea, the southern Caspian Sea, and the seas around China and Japan; northwest European populations are at least partly resident. The closely related short-billed gull was formerly often included in this species, which was then sometimes known collectively as "mew gull".
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- NA, PAL : Iceland and north-west and central Europe to Kamchatka (east Siberia)
- Non-breeding range
- Europe to north Africa, Mediterranean, Black and Caspian seas, Persian Gulf; Sea of Okhotsk (south-east Russia), Japan, Korean Pen. to south-east China
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