Ivory gull
| Ivory gull | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | Laridae |
| Genus: | Pagophila Kaup, 1829 |
| Species: | P. eburnea |
| Binomial name | |
| Pagophila eburnea (Phipps, 1774) | |
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The ivory gull (Pagophila eburnea) is a small gull, the only species in the genus Pagophila. It breeds in the high Arctic and has a circumpolar distribution through Greenland, northernmost North America, and Eurasia.
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