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We encountered 3 Glaucous Gulls on our drive of the Long Beach Peninsula.
Bird #2 - 2nd Cycle
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Photo Properties
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS 7D
Aperture Value
f/4
Color Space
sRGB
Exposure Bias Value
0 EV
Exposure Program
Aperture Priority
Flash
No Flash
Focal Length
500 mm
ISO
100
Metering Mode
Partial
Shutter Speed Value
1/3200 sec
Date/Time
Sat 28 Jan 2012 01:40:20 PM EST
English Glaucous Gull
Scientific (Larus hyperboreus barrovianus)
Order CHARADRIIFORMES
Family (Latin) Laridae
Family (English) Gulls, Terns, Skimmers
Other name(s)
Breeding Regions EU, NA
Breeding Range Subregions widespread n coasts
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Austria,Canada,China,Czech Republic,Denmark,Egypt,Estonia,Finland,France,Germany, Greenland,Hungary,Iceland,Ireland,Japan,Kazakhstan,Latvia,Lithuania,Mexico,Mongolia, Netherlands,Norway,Poland,Portugal,Romania,Russia,Slovenia,South Korea,Spain,Sweden, Switzerland,Taiwan,Tunisia,Turkey,Ukraine,United Kingdom,United States - Alaska,United States - mainland,
IOC 11.2 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
hyperboreus n Europe to nw Siberia
pallidissimus nw Siberia to the Bering Sea
barrovianus Alaska to nw Canada
leuceretes nc Canada to Greenland and Iceland
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by Gunnerus, 1767
German Eismöwe
French Goéland bourgmestre
Chinese 北极鸥
Japanese シロカモメ
Russian Бургомистр
Spanish Gavión hiperbóreo
Portuguese gaivotão-branco
Bird Data App text A large gull. Unlike many gulls, juvenile is also light-colored (to {buff} but not brown). Note pinkish legs and {glaucous} color.
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)
EU 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)