Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia Scientific name definitions
- LC Least Concern
- Names (44)
- Monotypic
Joanna Burger and Michael Gochfeld
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated January 1, 2002
Text last updated January 1, 2002
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Species names in all available languages
| Language | Common name |
|---|---|
| Asturian | Gaviota de Bonaparte |
| Basque | Bonaparte antxeta |
| Bulgarian | Бонапартова чайка |
| Catalan | gavina de Bonaparte |
| Croatian | šumski galeb |
| Czech | racek Bonapartův |
| Danish | Bonapartemåge |
| Dutch | Kleine Kokmeeuw |
| English | Bonaparte's Gull |
| English (United States) | Bonaparte's Gull |
| Faroese | Hattarmási |
| Finnish | kuusilokki |
| French | Mouette de Bonaparte |
| French (France) | Mouette de Bonaparte |
| Galician | Gaivota de Bonaparte |
| German | Bonapartemöwe |
| Greek | Γλάρος της Φιλαδέλφειας |
| Haitian Creole (Haiti) | Mòv janm wòz |
| Hungarian | Bonaparte-sirály |
| Icelandic | Trjámáfur |
| Japanese | ボナパルトカモメ |
| Lithuanian | Bonaparto kiras |
| Norwegian | kanadahettemåke |
| Polish | mewa kanadyjska |
| Portuguese (Portugal) | Guincho-americano |
| Romanian | Pescăruș cu cioc negru |
| Russian | Бонапартова чайка |
| Serbian | Bonapartin galeb |
| Slovak | čajka čiernozobá |
| Slovenian | Ameriški rečni galeb |
| Spanish | Gaviota de Bonaparte |
| Spanish (Chile) | Gaviota de Bonaparte |
| Spanish (Costa Rica) | Gaviota de Bonaparte |
| Spanish (Cuba) | Galleguito chico |
| Spanish (Dominican Republic) | Gaviota de Bonaparte |
| Spanish (Ecuador) | Gaviota de Bonaparte |
| Spanish (Honduras) | Gaviota de Bonaparte |
| Spanish (Mexico) | Gaviota de Bonaparte |
| Spanish (Panama) | Gaviota de Bonaparte |
| Spanish (Puerto Rico) | Gaviota de Bonaparte |
| Spanish (Spain) | Gaviota de Bonaparte |
| Swedish | trädmås |
| Turkish | Küçük Karabaş Martı |
| Ukrainian | Мартин канадський |
Chroicocephalus philadelphia (Ord, 1815)
PROTONYM:
Sterna Philadelphia
Ord, 1815. A new geographical, historical, and commercial grammar; and present state of the several kingdoms of the world. Second American ed. Vol. 2. ed.2(Am.), 2, p.319.
TYPE LOCALITY:
No locality = near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2023
Definitions
- CHROICOCEPHALUS
- philadelphia / philadelphica / philadelphicus
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UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
Originally Appeared in
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- Migration
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Figure 1. Distribution of Bonaparte's Gull.
This species winters along both coasts and inland, moving southward ahead of freeze-up to area below dashed line to Gulf Coast and northern Mexico.
