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Slender-billed Gull
Chroicocephalus genei · Family Laridae
Chroicocephalus genei
Family Laridae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Laridae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 179,432
- Countries and territories with records
- 107
About this species
This species has 179,432 occurrence records from 107 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Spain (26.9%), France (16.1%), Israel (12.5%), the United Arab Emirates (5.2%) and India (4.4%); together they account for 65.3% of the total. In Spain, this species accounts for 0.093% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Chroicocephalus genei combines the genus name Chroicocephalus with the species epithet genei. The Warbla app catalog lists 10 species of the genus Chroicocephalus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Chroicocephalus ridibundus, Chroicocephalus philadelphia and Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 101 species of the family Laridae. This species ranks 43rd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Larus delawarensis. Its record count is 20.5% of the family average (874,525). The family Laridae belongs to the order Charadriiformes, which has 340 species in the Warbla app catalog.