BirdUp · Species
Laughing Gull
Leucophaeus atricilla(Linnaeus, 1758)
- Order
- CHARADRIIFORMES
- Family
- Laridae
- Genus
- Leucophaeus
At a glance
The Laughing Gull, listed as Least Concern. It can be seen year-round.
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
- Origin
- Vagrant
- Best seen
- Year-round
- Commonness
- Very common
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The laughing gull is a medium-sized gull of North and South America. Named from its laugh-like call, it is an opportunistic omnivore and scavenger. It breeds in large colonies mostly along the Atlantic coast of North America, the Caribbean, and northern South America. The two subspecies are L. a. megalopterus, which can be seen from southeast Canada down to Central America, and L. a. atricilla, which occurs from the West Indies to the Venezuelan islands. The laughing gull was long placed in the genus Larus until its present placement in Leucophaeus.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
03 · When
When to look
When can you see a Laughing Gull?
The Laughing Gull is present across its Australian range year-round, so it can be seen in any month.
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