#0648 · 🐦 birds

Caspian Gull

🇳🇱 Pontische Meeuw ·Larus cachinnans

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © tonipons · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Геннадий · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Константин Anhelle · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Полина Яковлевна Нехаева (Лихачева) · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Lesley Starke · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. © bedazlesa · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Константин Anhelle · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © thegreatdodo · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © alexander_semenov · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Caspian gull (taxon Larus cachinnans) is a large gull and a member of the herring and lesser black-backed gull complex. The scientific name is from Latin. Larus appears to have referred to a gull or other large seabird, and cachinnans means "laughing", from cachinnare , "to laugh".

base stats

NL sightings 299iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 18,561iNaturalist observations
weight 1.3 kgadult, 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).