Silver Gull

About this species

This species has 1,237,324 occurrence records from 34 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Australia (84.1%) and New Zealand (15.7%); together they account for 99.8% of the total. In Australia, this species accounts for 0.95% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae combines the genus name Chroicocephalus with the species epithet novaehollandiae. 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 maculipennis.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 101 species of the family Laridae. This species ranks 19th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Larus delawarensis. Its record count is 1.4 times the family average (874,525). The family Laridae belongs to the order Charadriiformes, which has 340 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Laridae

• Black-headed Gull
• Bonaparte's Gull
• Slender-billed Gull
• Ring-billed Gull
• Lesser black-backed gull
• European Herring Gull
• American Herring Gull
• Great Black-backed Gull

Credits & data sources

• Wikidata
• GBIF.org