Audouin's Gull

When to see the Audouin's Gull

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Audouin's Gull

The map shades 28 countries with regular records, and 3 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark.

About the Audouin's Gull

Audouin's gull is a large gull restricted to the Mediterranean and the western coast of Saharan Africa and the Iberian Peninsula. The genus name is from Ancient Greek ikhthus, "fish", and aetos, "eagle", and the specific audouinii and the English name are after the French naturalist Jean Victoire Audouin.

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Easily confused with

Pallas's GullIchthyaetus ichthyaetusThis is a very large gull, being easily the world's largest black-headed gull and the third largest species of gull in the world, after the great black-backed gull and the glaucous gull. Sooty GullIchthyaetus hemprichiiThe sooty gull is a species of gull in the family Laridae, also known as the Aden gull or Hemprich's gull. White-eyed GullIchthyaetus leucophthalmusThe white-eyed gull is a small gull that is endemic to the Red Sea.