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Range Map for Short-billed Gull

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Cornell Lab of Ornithology (2021) Distribution map for Short-billed Gull Larus brachyrhynchus. Modified accounting for taxonomic differences from BirdLife International and Handbook of the Birds of the World (2020) Bird species distribution maps of the world. Version 2017.2.

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