Grey Gull

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Grey Gull

Grey Gulls at La Serena, Chile
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Charadriiformes
Family:	Laridae
Genus:	Leucophaeus
Species:	L. modestus
Binomial name
*Leucophaeus modestus* Tschudi, 1843
Synonyms
Larus modestus

The Grey Gull (Leucophaeus modestus) is a gull found along the Pacific coast of South America. Unusual among gulls, it only breeds in the extremely arid Atacama Desert in northern Chile, although it is present as a non-breeding visitor throughout most of the Chilean coast, and the coast of Peru and Ecuador. It is vagrant to Colombia, Panama, Mexico, and Louisiana.

References

Grey Gull. arthrugrosset.com. Accessed 2008-08-03.

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Genus	Species

Larus	Pacific Gull Belcher's Gull Olrog's Gull Black-tailed Gull Heermann's Gull Common Gull (or Mew Gull) Ring-billed Gull California Gull Great Black-backed Gull Kelp Gull (or Cape Gull) Glaucous-winged Gull Western Gull Yellow-footed Gull Glaucous Gull Iceland Gull Kumlien's Gull Thayer's Gull European Herring Gull Heuglin's Gull American Herring Gull Yellow-legged Gull Caspian Gull Vega Gull (or East Siberian Gull / Mongolian Gull) Armenian Gull Slaty-backed Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull

Ichthyaetus	White-eyed Gull Sooty Gull Great Black-Headed Gull (or Pallas's Gull) Audouin's Gull Mediterranean Gull Relict Gull

Leucophaeus	Dolphin Gull Laughing Gull Franklin's Gull Lava Gull Grey Gull

Chroicocephalus	Silver Gull Red-billed Gull Huahine Gull Hartlaub's Gull Brown-hooded Gull Grey-headed Gull (or Grey-hooded Gull) Andean Gull Black-billed Gull Brown-headed Gull Black-Headed Gull Slender-billed Gull Bonaparte's Gull

Saundersilarus	Saunders's Gull

Hydrocoloeus	Little Gull

Rhodostethia	Ross's Gull

Rissa	Black-legged Kittiwake Red-legged Kittiwake

Pagophila	Ivory Gull

Xema	Sabine's Gull

Creagrus	Swallow-tailed Gull

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