ivory gull
pagophila eburnea latin

Polar Bears inhabit this region, along with ivory gulls.

In particular, a significant part of the ivory gull range was observed and six new colonies of these birds found.

A flock of ivory gulls, startled by her call, lifted into the air on vast translucent wings.

There are no records of the Ivory Gull breeding in Alaska.

During the winter, Ivory Gulls live near polynyas, or a large area of open water surrounded by sea ice.

Ivory gulls flew above us and ringed seals bobbed up and down in the water.

They saw ivory gulls flying overhead, the first time ornithologists said they had ever been sighted at the pole.

Several types of birds also live at the beach such as brown pelican, great blue heron, ivory gull, and several other species.

The Ivory Gull has no subspecies.

However, the areas nunataks may support one-third of the nationally vulnerable Canadian Ivory Gull population.

He it was that first described the ivory gull; and he took particular notice of the northern jellyfish, or blubbers.'

It is home to the Ivory Gull, but researchers have been witnessing a dramatic decrease in breeding populations in the region in recent times.

The Seymour Island population represents approximately one percent of the world population of Ivory Gulls.

Moderate numbers of black guillemots, Arctic terns and glaucous, herring and ivory gulls also breed here.

Other seabirds include Arctic Tern, four species of skua, and the elusive Ivory Gull.

Ivory Gull (Pagophila eburnea)

The island supports Canada's largest known Ivory Gulls breeding colony, approximately 10-12 percent of the known Canadian population.

Rare Ivory Gull in Plymouth, MA.

The gulls of Seymour Island breed on raised beaches unlike other Canadian Ivory Gull colonies.

("On the past numerous occurrence of the Ivory Gull in the southern parts of the Barents Sea.")

Ivory gulls perched on the highest bergs, and beside the smaller blocks lodged on the tide-line ran little groups of turnstone and sanderling.

Ivory Gull breeds on Arctic coasts and cliffs, laying one to three olive eggs in a ground nest lined with moss, lichens, or seaweed.

Glaucous gulls and any other northern stragglers such as Iceland and perhaps ivory gulls will drift off towards their Arctic breeding-grounds.

The Ivory Gull, Pagophila eburnea is a small gull, the only species in the genus Pagophila.

These include little auk, Black-legged Kittiwake, black guillemot, ivory gull, uria, charadriiformes and glaucous gull.

Ivory Gull (Pagophila eburnea)

The Ivory Gull, Pagophila eburnea is a small gull, the only species in the genus Pagophila.

IVORY GULL Pagophila eburnea.

Über das einstmals sehr zahlreiche Vorkommen der Elfenbeinmöwe Pagophila eburnea in der südlichen Barentssee."

In 1822 and 1823, while completing his medical studies in Edinburgh, Edmondston published several papers in the Memoirs of the Wernerian Society, adding two more species to the British List, Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides and Ivory Gull Pagophila eburnea.