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

Photo: Diliff · CC BY-SA 3.0

SpeciesCharadriiformesLaridae
Birds

🐦Black-headed Gull

Chroicocephalus ridibundus (Linnaeus, 1766)

Skrattmås (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) är en fågel som tillhör familjen måsfåglar.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Photos
1
Measurements
5
vs you
≈ 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
All measurements ↓
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
AnAge
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
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

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

Gestation
22 days
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

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

Litter size
about 3
AnAge
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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
Details ↓

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.

Where it sits

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
All 9 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
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In other languages
skrattmås (sv), Lachmöwe (de), racek chechtavý (cs), kokmeeuw (nl), guincho (pt), gavina vulgar (ca) … and 27 more languages

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