California gull
| California gull | |
|---|---|
| California gull at Palo Alto Duck Pond, Baylands Nature Preserve, Palo Alto, California | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | Laridae |
| Genus: | Larus |
| Species: | L. californicus |
| Binomial name | |
| Larus californicus Lawrence, 1854 | |
| Subspecies | |
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The California gull (Larus californicus) is a medium-sized gull, smaller on average than the herring gull, but larger on average than the ring-billed gull (though it may overlap in size greatly with both). It lives not just in California, but up and down the entire Western coast of North America, and has breeding ground inland. The yellow bill has a black ring.
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