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Species
Near ThreatenedHeermann's gull
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderCharadriiformes
- FamilyLaridae
Habitatmarine
Observations23,312
via IUCN
Wikidata facts
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Near Threatened
- Commons category
- Larus heermanni
- taxon name
- Larus heermanni
- Commons gallery
- Larus heermanni
- taxon common name
- gaivota-mexicana
- wingspan
- 120.5
- litter size
- 1.52
- short name
- L. heermanni
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Encyclopedic overview
Heermann's gull (Larus heermanni) is a gull resident in the United States, Mexico and extreme southwestern British Columbia, nearly all nesting on Isla Rasa in the Gulf of California. They are usually found near shores or well out to sea, very rarely inland. The species is named after Adolphus Lewis Heermann, nineteenth-century explorer and naturalist.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Heermann's Gull” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.