#1124 · 🐦 birds

Franklin's Gull

🇳🇱 Franklins Meeuw ·Leucophaeus pipixcan

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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what is it?

2 in, 32–36 cm) gull. The genus name Leucophaeus is from Ancient Greek leukos , "white", and phaios , "dusky". The specific pipixcan is a Nahuatl name for a type of gull.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 15,884iNaturalist observations
weight 280 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.
15,884 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 280 g.
Scientifically named by Johann Georg Wagler in 1831 (195 years ago).