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Black-headed Gull
Chroicocephalus ridibundus · Family Laridae
Chroicocephalus ridibundus
Family Laridae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Laridae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 6,865,942
- Countries and territories with records
- 180
About this species
This species has 6,865,942 occurrence records from 180 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United Kingdom (15.8%), Sweden (14.2%), the Netherlands (12.6%), Denmark (10.7%) and Finland (7.3%); together they account for 60.7% of the total. In the United Kingdom, this species accounts for 1.7% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Chroicocephalus ridibundus combines the genus name Chroicocephalus with the species epithet ridibundus. The Warbla app catalog lists 10 species of the genus Chroicocephalus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Chroicocephalus philadelphia, Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae and Chroicocephalus maculipennis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 101 species of the family Laridae. This species ranks 5th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Larus delawarensis. Its record count is 7.9 times the family average (874,525). The family Laridae belongs to the order Charadriiformes, which has 340 species in the Warbla app catalog.