#0664 · 🐦 birds

Mediterranean Gull

🇳🇱 Zwartkopmeeuw ·Ichthyaetus melanocephalus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Ján Svetlík · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © Vitaliy Khustochka · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Nik Borrow · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Leon van der Noll · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © Jon J. Laysell · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Joaquim Pedroso · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Leon van der Noll · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
9. © naturpel · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Mediterranean gull ( Ichthyaetus melanocephalus ) is a small gull. The scientific name is from Ancient Greek. The genus Ichthyaetus is from ikhthus , "fish", and aetos , "eagle", and the specific melanocephalus is from melas , "black", and -kephalos "-headed".

base stats

NL sightings 238iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 13,422iNaturalist observations
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).