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Photo Properties
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS 5D
Aperture Value
f/8
Color Space
sRGB
Exposure Bias Value
-0.33 EV
Exposure Program
Aperture Priority
Flash
No Flash
Focal Length
300 mm
ISO
320
Metering Mode
Multi-Segment
Shutter Speed Value
1/660 sec
Date/Time
Thu 29 Jan 2009 07:30:42 AM EST
English Franklin's Gull
Scientific (Leucophaeus pipixcan)
Order CHARADRIIFORMES
Family (Latin) Laridae
Family (English) Gulls, Terns, Skimmers
Other name(s) Mouette de Franklin
Breeding Regions NA
Breeding Range Subregions prairie marshes of w, n Alberta and ec Oregon to sw Manitoba (wc, ec Canada) and nw Minnesota
Nonbreeding Range Subregions to w South Pacific coast from Ecuador and Galápagos to c Chile
Countries (BETA)map Argentina,Bolivia,Canada,Chile,Colombia,Costa Rica,Ecuador - Galapagos Islands,Ecuador - mainland,El Salvador,Guatemala, Honduras,Mexico,Netherlands Antilles,Nicaragua,Panama,Peru,United States - mainland,Venezuela,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Monotypic
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Wagler, 1831)
German Präriemöwe
French Mouette de Franklin
Chinese 弗氏鸥
Japanese アメリカズグロカモメ
Russian Франклинова чайка
Spanish Gaviota pipizcan
Portuguese gaivota-das-pradarias
Bird Data App text Similar to northern hemisphere [Laughing Gull], but a bit smaller.
Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes
Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)