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 LC    Grey-headed Gull* Id (Atlas):
    Larus cirrocephalus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Grey-headed Gull, Gray-headed Gull, Grey-hooded Gull, Gray-hooded Gull

Family
Laridae (Gulls, Terns, Skimmers)

Size
36 - 38 cm

First Described (Guide)
Vieillot, 1818

Range (Guide)
Angola, Argentina, Benin, Botswana, Brazil, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Ecuador (NB), Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-bissau (B), Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Rwanda, Senegal (B), Sierra Leone, South Africa (B), Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda (B), Western Sahara (B) (NB), Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Algeria, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Comoros, Côte dIvoire, Egypt, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Ghana, Israel, Jordan, Lesotho, Liberia, Somalia, Spain, Togo, Tunisia, Uruguay (B).

Population
Estimated population is 130,000 - 1,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Food
Mainly fish. Also invertebrates, including insects, molluscs and termites, the eggs of herons and cormorants, and dead fish and refuse obtained by scavenging.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (20)...)

 
Grey-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus) [XC277587]
     by Lynette Rudman from Port Elizabeth, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa (call, flight call)

 
Grey-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus) [XC737718]
     by Dawie de Swardt from Arroyo Ludue\u00f1a, Funes, Santa Fe, Argentina (flight call)

Nest
Varies from a shallow scrape to a well built cup of rushes and grasses, on bare ground, in clumps of reeds and papyrus on islands, or on floating vegetation, often camouflaged in tall, thick vegetation.

Subspecies
Morphometric analysis links it with Silver Gull (Larus novaehollandiae) and Andean Gull (Larus serranus).

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • cirrocephalus Vieillot, 1818   -  Coastal Ecuador and Peru; coastal central Brazil to Argentina (southern Buenos Aires), and up Paraguay and Paraná basins inland to Santa Fé (Laguna de Melincué).
  • poiocephalus (Swainson, 1837)   -  Coasts and inland rivers of western Africa; widely scattered localities from Ethiopia to Malawi and southern Africa, including Rift Valley lakes (Naivasha, Manyara, Elmenteita, Nakuru, Turkana).



References
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Files:
JPG files for Grey-headed Gull (Larus cirrocephalus) - 10 files


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