#1385 · 🐦 birds

Heermann's Gull

🇳🇱 Heermanns Meeuw ·Larus heermanni

NTnear threatened 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Robin Gwen Agarwal · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Omar Del Toro · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © David Batchelor · CC BY 4.0
4. San Quintín, B.C., Mexico:© no rights reserved · CC0
5. Hopewell, VA 23860, USA:© bwood708 · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. San Quintín, B.C., Mexico:© docprt · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Isla Isabel:© Victor Manuel Gaxiola Castro · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Santa Cruz County, CA, USA:© wyattherp · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Mission Bay, San Diego, CA, USA:© Grigory Heaton · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Port Lands, Toronto, ON, Canada:© dbeadle · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The 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.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 26,836iNaturalist observations
weight 58.6 gadult, up to
threat NTnear threatened

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.
26,836 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 59 g.
Scientifically named by John Cassin in 1852 (174 years ago).