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Black headed Gull St James's Park, London Nov 2006🐦

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SpeciesCharadriiformesLaridae
Birds

🐦Black-headed Gull

Chroicocephalus ridibundus (Linnaeus, 1766)

La Mouette rieuse (Chroicocephalus ridibundus, anciennement Larus ridibundus) est une espèce d'oiseaux Charadriiformes de la famille des Laridae. Selon la classification de référence du Congrès ornithologique international (version 15.2, 2026), c'est une espèce monotypique (non subdivisée en sous-espèces).

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≈ 1/200th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
0.31 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
33 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Black-headed Gull

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.31 kg
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Other figures ↓

data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

By sex

  • Female267 kgWikidataQ25634
  • Male294 kgWikidataQ25634
Maximum lifespan
33 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
22 days
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 3
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Volume l
0.3 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Black-headed Gull yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderCharadriiformes
  5. ›familyLaridae
  6. ›genusChroicocephalus
  7. ›speciesChroicocephalus ridibundus
Full lineage
  1. superclassSarcopterygii
  2. superclassTetrapoda
  3. orderSauria
  4. classBirds · Aves
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
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skrattmås (sv), Lachmöwe (de), racek chechtavý (cs), kokmeeuw (nl), guincho (pt), gavina vulgar (ca) … and 27 more languages

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