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Larus glaucoides (Iceland Gull)

Synonyms: Larus icelandicus; Larus leucopterus

Wikipedia Abstract

The Iceland gull (Larus glaucoides) is a medium size gull which breeds in the Arctic regions of Canada and Greenland, but not Iceland, where it is only seen in the winter. The genus name is from Latin Larus which appears to have referred to a gull or other large seabird. The specific glaucoides denotes its resemblance to Larus glaucus, a synonym of Larus hyperboreus, the glaucous gull; -oides is Ancient Greek and means "resembling". The American taxon Kumlien's gull is often considered a subspecies, L. g. kumlieni, of Iceland gull.
View Wikipedia Record: Larus glaucoides

Infraspecies

Larus glaucoides glaucoides
Larus glaucoides kumlieni
Larus glaucoides thayeri

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
0
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Not determined do to incomplete vulnerability data.
ED Score: 1.05455
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.903 lbs (863 g)
Birth Weight [3]  55 grams
Male Weight [3]  1.903 lbs (863 g)
Breeding Habitat [2]  Arctic coastal
Wintering Geography [2]  Northern U.S./Canada
Wintering Habitat [2]  Beaches and estuaries, Coastal marine, Freshwater lakes and rivers
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore, Granivore
Diet - Endothermic [4]  20 %
Diet - Fish [4]  50 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  20 %
Diet - Seeds [4]  10 %
Forages - Ground [4]  30 %
Forages - Water Surface [4]  50 %
Forages - Underwater [4]  20 %
Clutch Size [5]  2.39
Clutches / Year [5]  1
Fledging [1]  43 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  200,000
Incubation [5]  25 days
Maximum Longevity [5]  33 years
Speed [6]  35.567 MPH (15.9 m/s)
Wing Span [7]  4.756 feet (1.45 m)
Female Maturity [5]  4 years
Male Maturity [5]  4 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Choanotaenia porosa <Unverified Name>[8]
Cryptocotyle lingua[8]
Microphallus similis[8]
Microsomacanthus ductilis[8]
Tetrabothrius erostris[8]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Storchová, Lenka; Hořák, David (2018), Data from: Life-history characteristics of European birds, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n6k3n
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 5de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 6Alerstam T, Rosén M, Bäckman J, Ericson PGP, Hellgren O (2007) Flight Speeds among Bird Species: Allometric and Phylogenetic Effects. PLoS Biol 5(8): e197. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050197
♦ 7British Trust for Ornithology
♦ 8Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0