Common gull: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the common gull lives – recorded in 49 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Larus canus
Group	Waders, gulls, terns & auks
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	49 countries
Continents	Asia, Europe, North America
Mass	413 g (male organism, adult weight); 360 g (female organism, adult weight)
Class	Bird
Order	Charadriiformes
Family	Laridae

Where does the common gull live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the common gull in 49 countries and territories across Asia, Europe and North America. Wikidata gives its range as: Nanling Mountains, Africa.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is a common gull?

Wikidata records the following for the common gull: mass 413 g (male organism, adult weight); 360 g (female organism, adult weight).

Is the common gull endangered?

The common gull’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the common gull?

The common gull (Larus canus) is a bird in the order Charadriiformes and the family Laridae, genus Larus. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the common gull

The common gull (Larus canus) is a medium-sized gull that breeds in cool temperate regions of the Palearctic from Iceland and Scotland east to Kamchatka in the Russian Far East. Most common gulls migrate further south in winter, reaching the Mediterranean Sea, the southern Caspian Sea, and the seas around China and Japan; northwest European populations are at least partly resident. The closely related short-billed gull was formerly often included in this species, which was then sometimes known collectively as "mew gull".

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Common gull (revision 1377736571), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q26427 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).