#1152 · 🐦 birds

Slender-billed Gull

🇳🇱 Dunbekmeeuw ·Chroicocephalus genei

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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what is it?

g. Pakistan) on islands and coastal lagoons. Most of the population is somewhat migratory, wintering further south to north Africa and India, and a few birds have wandered to western Europe. A stray individual was reportedly seen on Antigua, April 24, 1976 (AOU, 2000).

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,753iNaturalist observations
weight 275 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
6,753 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 275 g.
Scientifically named by Ferdinando Arborio Gattinara di Breme in 1839 (187 years ago).