Great Black-backed Gull

About this species

This species has 5,048,166 occurrence records from 101 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (41.5%), Canada (16.2%), Norway (9.2%), Sweden (9.2%) and the United Kingdom (8%); together they account for 84.2% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.19% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Larus marinus combines the genus name Larus with the species epithet marinus. The Warbla app catalog lists 24 species of the genus Larus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Larus delawarensis, Larus fuscus and Larus argentatus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 101 species of the family Laridae. This species ranks 6th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Larus delawarensis. Its record count is 5.8 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

• Ring-billed Gull
• Lesser black-backed gull
• European Herring Gull
• American Herring Gull
• Common Gull
• Yellow-legged Gull
• Western Gull
• Kelp Gull
• Armenian Gull

Credits & data sources

• Wikidata
• GBIF.org