Laughing gull: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

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

Scientific name	Leucophaeus atricilla
Group	Waders, gulls, terns & auks
Found in	49 countries
Continents	Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
Mass	300 g (adult weight)
Class	Bird
Order	Charadriiformes
Family	Laridae

Where does the laughing gull live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the laughing gull in 49 countries and territories across Europe, North America, Oceania and South America. Wikidata gives its range as: Belém, Africa, Brazil, South America.

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 laughing gull?

Wikidata records the following for the laughing gull: mass 300 g (adult weight).

What kind of animal is the laughing gull?

The laughing gull (Leucophaeus atricilla) is a bird in the order Charadriiformes and the family Laridae, genus Leucophaeus. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the laughing gull

The laughing gull (Leucophaeus atricilla) is a medium-sized gull of North and South America. Named from its laugh-like call, it is an opportunistic omnivore and scavenger. It breeds in large colonies mostly along the Atlantic coast of North America, the Caribbean, and northern South America. Two subspecies are accepted, L. a. atricilla, which occurs from the West Indies to the Venezuelan islands, and L. a. megalopterus, which occurs from southeast Canada down to Central America. The laughing gull was long placed in the genus Larus until its present placement in Leucophaeus.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Laughing gull (revision 1380690318), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q528764 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).