#0842 · 🐦 birds

Ross's Gull

🇳🇱 Ross' Meeuw ·Rhodostethia rosea

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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1. © Leon van der Noll · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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10. © Byron Chin · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

what is it?

The Ross's gull ( Rhodostethia rosea ) is a small gull, the only species in its genus, although it has been suggested it should be moved to the genus Hydrocoloeus , which otherwise only includes the little gull. This bird is named after the British explorer James Clark Ross. Its breeding grounds were first discovered in 1905 by Sergei Aleksandrovich Buturlin near village of Pokhodsk in North-Eastern Yakutia, while visiting the area as a judge.

base stats

NL sightings 12iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 340iNaturalist 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).