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Leucophaeus pipixcan (Franklin's Gull)

Synonyms: Larus pipixcan (homotypic); Leucophaeus pipixcan pipixcan
Language: French; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The Franklin's gull (Leucophaeus pipixcan) is a small (length 12.6–14.2 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.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
0
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
6
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.16918
EDGE Score: 1.15347
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  280 grams
Birth Weight [3]  26 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Freshwater marshes
Wintering Geography [2]  Pacific Coast
Wintering Habitat [2]  Beaches and estuaries, Rocky intertidal
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Endothermic [4]  10 %
Diet - Fish [4]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  40 %
Diet - Plants [4]  20 %
Diet - Seeds [4]  20 %
Forages - Understory [4]  30 %
Forages - Ground [4]  40 %
Forages - Water Surface [4]  30 %
Clutch Size [5]  3
Clutches / Year [3]  1
Fledging [1]  35 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  830,000
Incubation [3]  24 days
Maximum Longevity [7]  9 years
Migration [6]  Intercontinental
Wing Span [7]  35 inches (.89 m)
Female Maturity [3]  2 years
Male Maturity [3]  2 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Tawas Point State Park 183 Michigan, United States

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No
Caribbean Islands Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. No
Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forests Chile No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru No

Prey / Diet

Emerita analoga (Pacific sand crab)[7]
Engraulis ringens (Anchoveta)[8]
Trachurus murphyi (Southern jack mackerel)[7]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Diplostomum huronense[9]
Paracuaria adunca[9]
Posthodiplostomum pricei[9]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan 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
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3de 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
♦ 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
♦ 5Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 6Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 7del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 8THE PREDATION OF GUANO BIRDS ON THE PERUVIAN ANCHOVY (Engraulis ringens JENYNS), Romulo Jordán, CALIFORNIA COOPERATIVE OCEANIC FISHERIES INVESTIGATIONS, REPORTS VOLUME XI, 1 JULY 1963 TO 30 JUNE 1966, p. 105-109
♦ 9Gibson, 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
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
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