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Mew Gull

Larus canus ORDER: CHARADRIIFORMES FAMILY: LARIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

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Mew Gull Photo

© 2004 Cornell Lab of Ornithology

One of the smallest of the "white-headed" gulls, the Mew Gull is common along Pacific Coast beaches in winter. It also occurs in Eurasia, where it is known at the "Common Gull."

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Calls

  • Calls
    Recorded by Sture Palmer
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Call a high, sharp squeak, more abrupt than whining of most other gulls.

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