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The Black-headed Gull is a common seabird found across Europe, Asia, and North Africa that is easily recognized by its dark head during breeding season. These adaptable gulls are important members of coastal and inland ecosystems, and their populations are monitored by scientists to track environmental changes.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Chroicocephalus
- Mass
- +267
- Image
- Black-headed gull (05557).jpg
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- P105
- species
- P9714
- Burkina Faso
- P8307
- Charadriiformes
- P141
- Least Concern
- P14254
- Near Threatened
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Adults and immatures with winter plumage in Japan. Black-headed gulls foraging for various crustaceans and other edibles. A small flock in winter plumage in Sweden. The black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) is a small gull that breeds in much of the Palearctic in Europe and Asia, and also locally in smaller numbers in coastal eastern Canada. Most of the population is migratory and winters further south, but many also remain in the milder areas of northwestern Europe. It was formerly sometimes cited as "common black-headed gull" to distinguish it from "great black-headed gull" (an old name for Pallas's gull).
The genus name Chroicocephalus is from the Ancient Greek words khroizo, "to colour", and kephale, "head". The specific name ridibundus is Latin for "laughing".