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Species
Near Threatenedivory gull
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderCharadriiformes
- FamilyLaridae
Habitatmarine
via IUCN
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Encyclopedic overview
The ivory gull (Pagophila eburnea) is a small gull, the only species in the genus Pagophila. It is a resident breeding bird in the high Arctic and has a circumpolar distribution through Greenland, northernmost North America, and Eurasia.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ivory Gull” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.