Sabine's gull

Sabine's gull
Adult in Iceland
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Laridae
Genus: Xema
Leach, 1819
Species:
X. sabini
Binomial name
Xema sabini
(Sabine, 1819)
Sabine islands, near Melville Bay, west coast of Greenland
Range
  Breeding
  Migration
  Non-breeding

Sabine's gull (/ˈseɪbaɪn/ SAY-bine or /ˈsæbaɪn/ SAB-ine) (Xema sabini) is a small gull. It is usually treated as the only species placed in the genus Xema, though some authors include it with other gulls in a wide view of the genus Larus.[2] It has also been known historically as fork-tailed gull or "xeme" (from the genus name). It breeds in colonies on arctic coasts and tundra, laying two or three spotted olive-brown eggs in a ground nest lined with grass. Sabine's gull is pelagic outside the breeding season. It takes a wide variety of mainly animal food, and will eat any suitable small prey.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2020). "Xema sabini". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T22694479A157413905. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22694479A157413905.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ Stenhouse, Iain J.; Egevang, Carsten; Phillips, Richard A. (2011). "Trans-equatorial migration, staging sites and wintering area of Sabine's Gulls Larus sabini in the Atlantic Ocean". Ibis. 154 (1): 42–51. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.2011.01180.x. Retrieved 6 September 2024.