Species |
Family |
Scientific name |
Breeding Regions |
Breeding Subregions |
Nonbreeding Subregions |
- CHARADRIIFORMES |
Andean Gull i | Laridae | Chroicocephalus serranus | SA | Andes of far sw Colombia to sc Chile and sw Argentina | some move to adjacent Pacific coast |
Black-billed Gull i | Laridae | Chroicocephalus bulleri | AU | mostly on braided rivers, North and South Is. (New Zealand) | some move to coasts |
Black-headed Gull i | Laridae | Chroicocephalus ridibundus | PAL | coastal far s Greenland, inland Iceland, temperate and subarctic w Europe across Russia to Yakutsk region, Kamchatka, Sakhalin (e Russia); in south through Caspian Sea, n Central Asia, n, c Mongolia and ne China; also wc Newfoundland (se Canada) | AF, IO, OR : to coasts and offshore waters of n Atlantic Canada, se Greenland, North Sea and w Atlantic to Mediterranean and marginal seas; to Canary Is. and wc Africa; Arabian Sea and associated gulfs, n Indian Ocean; w North Pacific coasts from Japan to |
Bonaparte's Gull i | Laridae | Chroicocephalus philadelphia | NA | boreal forest zone from sw Alaska mainland and nw, sw Canada to e Quebec (se Canada) | e North Pacific coast to wc Mexico; inland se US; w North Atlantic coast and offshore Gulf Stream to Florida, the Bahamas and Cuba |
Brown-headed Gull i | Laridae | Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus | PAL | inland Tibetan Plateau of Tajikistan, Xinjiang (w China), Ladakh (far nw India) and Tibet | inland and coastal Indian Subcontinent, sw China, w se Asia |
Brown-hooded Gull i | Laridae | Chroicocephalus maculipennis | SA | inland and coastal se Brazil, c Chile, nc Argentina and Falkland Is. | |
Grey-headed Gull i | Laridae | Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus | SA, AF | coastal and inland Africa s of the Sahara and Madagascar; coastal Ecuador and Peru; s Uruguay and ne Argentina to Santa Fe (nc Argentina) | |
Hartlaub's Gull i | Laridae | Chroicocephalus hartlaubii | AF | coastal c Namibia to W Cape, s Africa | |
Saunders's Gull i | Laridae | Chroicocephalus saundersi | PAL | coastal Liaoning to Jiangsu (Yellow Sea, e China) and Songdo (nw South Korea) | coasts of East China Sea from Japan and Korean Pen. to Taiwan and n South China Sea to n Vietnam |
Silver Gull i | Laridae | Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae | AU | inland s Australia and coastal throughout Australia; coastal New Zealand and outlying is. and New Caledonia | |
Slender-billed Gull i | Laridae | Chroicocephalus genei | PAL, AF | patchily on coasts and saline lakes of s Iberian Pen., s Europe, Black and Caspian seas and Turkey to Central Asia, Pakistan and coastal far nw India; Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia | to coasts of Arabian Pen. and w India |
81% 9 species of 11 (0 extinct).