One feature of the Lesser Black-backed Gull vs. the Herring Gull is the red orbital ring (eye).
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Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
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Date/Time
Mon 07 Aug 2017 06:50:39 AM EDT
English Lesser Black-backed Gull
Scientific (Larus fuscus graellsii)
Order CHARADRIIFORMES
Family (Latin) Laridae
Family (English) Gulls, Terns, Skimmers
Other name(s) Goéland brun
Breeding Regions PAL
Breeding Range Subregions Greenland, Iceland, w Europe to nc Siberia
Nonbreeding Range Subregions to sw Europe, wc, ec Africa, nw India, and e North America
Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Angola,Armenia,Australia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Bahrain,Belarus, Belgium,Benin,Bermuda,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Bulgaria,Burundi,Cambodia,Cameroon,Canada,Cape Verde, Central African Republic,Chad,China,Colombia,Comoros,Congo,Croatia,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark,Djibouti,Egypt,Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Estonia,Ethiopia,Finland,France,Gabon, Gambia,Georgia,Germany,Ghana,Gibraltar,Greece,Greenland,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Hong Kong, Hungary,Iceland,India - mainland,Iran,Iraq,Ireland,Israel,Italy,Ivory Coast,Japan, Jordan,Kazakhstan,Kenya,Kuwait,Latvia,Lebanon,Liberia,Libya,Liechtenstein,Lithuania, Luxembourg,Macedonia,Malawi,Maldives,Mali,Malta,Mauritania,Moldova,Montenegro,Morocco, Mozambique,Namibia,Netherlands,Netherlands Antilles,Niger,Nigeria,Norway,Oman,Pakistan,Palestine, Poland,Portugal,Qatar,Romania,Russia,Rwanda,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Serbia,Sierra Leone, Slovenia,Somalia,South Africa,South Korea,South Sudan,Spain,Sri Lanka,Sudan,Sweden,Switzerland, Syria,Tanzania,Thailand,Togo,Trinidad and Tobago,Tunisia,Turkey,Turkmenistan,Uganda,Ukraine, United Arab Emirates,United Kingdom,United States - mainland,Uzbekistan,Venezuela,Vietnam,Western Sahara,Yemen,Zambia,Zimbabwe,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
graellsii sw Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Is. and w Europe to n Iberian Pen.
intermedius Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, sw Sweden and w Norway
fuscus n Norway, Sweden and Finland to the White Sea (nw Russia)
heuglini arctic tundra from Kola Pen. (nw Russia) to Yamal Pen. (nc Siberia)
barabensis wc Asia from se Ural Mts. to w Siberia and n Kazakhstan
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by Linnaeus, 1758
German Heringsmöwe
French Goéland brun
Chinese 小黑背鸥
Japanese ニシセグロカモメ
Russian Клуша
Spanish Gaviota sombría
Portuguese gaivota-d'asa-escura
Bird Data App text A large gull with a dark grey back and (in adult) note red orbital ring (skin around eye).
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)