BirdUp · Species
Laughing Gull
Leucophaeus atricilla(Linnaeus, 1758)
- Order
- CHARADRIIFORMES
- Family
- Laridae
- Genus
- Leucophaeus
- Conservation
- Least Concern
- Commonness
- Very common
- Best seen
- Year-round
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
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- NA, MA, SA : islands off west North Atlantic coast of Maine to Florida, Gulf of Mexico to south Texas; Yucatan Pen.; Gulf of California to Colima; West Indies, islands off Yucatan Pen., and islands north of Venezuela, Trinidad, Tobago and to French Guiana
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
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