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ID tip
Adults in the breeding season have a dark brown head and throat with a white semicircle around the posterior of the eye, while the neck, chest and abdomen are white. In winter plumage, the brown hood is largely lost, retaining just a dark spot behind the eye and a dark smudge around the eye. The beak and legs are red, and the eye is dark brown. The outer primary flight feathers are white with black tips (the 'spots' of the scientific name) above and showing more extensively black from below, while the inner primaries and the secondaries and covert feathers are a silvery grey.
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When to see the Brown-hooded Gull
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Brown-hooded Gull
The map shades 5 countries with regular records, and 1 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 Peru.
About the Brown-hooded Gull
The brown-hooded gull is a species of gull, found in South America in Argentina, southeastern Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, and in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Falkland Islands. Its specific epithet, maculipennis, means 'spotted wings'. Like the other species of the genus Chroicocephalus, it was formerly included in a broad view of the genus Larus.
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Easily confused with
Slender-billed GullChroicocephalus geneiThis species is 37 to 40 cm (14.6 to 15.7 in) long with a 90 to 102 cm (35.4 to 40.2 in) wingspan.
Grey-headed GullChroicocephalus cirrocephalusThe grey-headed gull is slightly larger than the black-headed gull at 42 cm length.
Hartlaub's GullChroicocephalus hartlaubiiHartlaub's gull is 37–39 cm in length, with a wingspan of 89–92 cm and a weight of 235–340 g.
Side by side: Black-headed Gull vs Brown-hooded Gull · Bonaparte's Gull vs Brown-hooded Gull · Brown-hooded Gull vs Slender-billed Gull · Brown-hooded Gull vs Grey-headed Gull · Brown-hooded Gull vs Hartlaub's Gull
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