#1238 · 🐦 birds

Ivory Gull

🇳🇱 Ivoormeeuw ·Pagophila eburnea

NTnear threatened 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Blake Matheson · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Jamie Chavez · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Bill Bouton · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © Allen Chartier · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Port Władysławowo, 84-120 Władysławowo, Polska:© Maksymilian Wojtkiewicz · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Rouse's Point, New York:© Marv Elliott · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Таймырский Долгано-Ненецкий р-н, Красноярский край, Россия:© Игорь Двуреков · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © IanLJones · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Władysławowo, Polska:© Fenri · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Lambton County, ON, Canada:© Blake A. Mann · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The ivory gull ( Pagophila eburnea ) is a small gull, the only species in the genus Pagophila . It breeds in the high Arctic and has a circumpolar distribution through Greenland, northernmost North America, and Eurasia.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 431iNaturalist observations
weight 617 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.
431 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 617 g.
Scientifically named by Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave in 1774 (252 years ago).