Franklin's gull
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| Franklin's gull in Brisbane, Australia | |
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L. pipixcan
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Larus pipixcan |
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The Franklin's gull (Leucophaeus pipixcan) is a small [2] gull.
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Description
It breeds in central provinces of Canada and adjacent states of the northern United States. It is a migratory bird, wintering in Argentina, the Caribbean, Chile and Peru.
The summer adult's body is white and its back and wings are much darker grey than all other gulls of similar size except the larger laughing gull. The wings have black tips with an adjacent white band. The bill and legs are red. The black hood of the breeding adult is mostly lost in winter.
Young birds are similar to the adult but have less developed hoods and lack the white wing band. They take three years to reach maturity.
Although the bird is uncommon on the coasts of North America, it occurs as a rare vagrant to northwest Europe, south and west Africa, Australia and Japan, with a single record from Eilat, Israel, in 2011 (Smith 2011).
Behaviour
They are omnivores like most gulls, and they will scavenge as well as seeking suitable small prey.
Reproduction
The birds breed in colonies near prairie lakes with the nest constructed on the ground, or sometimes floating. The two or three eggs are incubated for about three weeks.
Naming
The bird was named after the Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, who led an 1823 expedition in which the first specimen of Franklin's gull was taken.[3]
See also
- List of birds of Argentina
- List of birds of Canada
- List of birds of the Caribbean (see Lists of birds by region)
- List of birds of Chile
- List of birds of Peru
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List of birds of the United States
References
- Howell, Steve N.G.; Dunn, Jon L. (2007). Gulls of the Americas. 516 pages. Houghton Mifflin (Boston). ISBN 978-0-618-72641-7.
- Smith, James (2002). "A Franklin's Gull at Eilat – Mew to Israel and the Middle East". Birding World. Volume 16, Number 7. p. 281. Illustrated with a colour photograph of the bird alongside two slender-billed gulls.
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- Franklin's gull videos, photos, and sounds at the Internet Bird Collection
- Franklin's Gull Species Account – Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Franklin's Gull - Larus pipixcan – USGS Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter
- Stamps (for Marshall Islands) with Americas' RangeMap
- Franklin's gull photo gallery at VIREO (Drexel University)
- Franklin's Gull article photo 1 of 3 write-up and photos
- Pages with broken file links
- IUCN Red List least concern species
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- Gulls
- Animals described in 1831
- Birds of Argentina
- Birds of the United States
- Birds of Chile
- Birds of Peru
- Birds of the Falkland Islands
- Birds of Western Australia
- Larus
- Native birds of the Canadian Prairies
