🐦Great Black-backed Gull
Le Goéland marin (Larus marinus) est une espèce d'oiseaux marins 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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IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.
- Body mass
- 1.65 kg
- Body length
- 0.79 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 33 years
Everything we know about the Great Black-backed Gull
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass1.65 kgrecord 1.49 kg · SeaLifeBaseAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
Figures vary
- 1.66 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length0.79 mmaximum recorded, total lengthSeaLifeBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tail length0.19 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
Wing length0.48 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.08 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.07 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan33 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Gestation27 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Litter sizeabout 3AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Trophic levelOmnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatCoastalAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleTerrestrialAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l1.6 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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 Great Black-backed Gull yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderCharadriiformes
- ›familyLaridae
- ›genusLarus
- ›speciesLarus marinus
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
All 9 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
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