Heermann's gull is a gull resident in the United States, Mexico and extreme southwestern British Columbia, nearly all nesting on Isla Rasa in the Gulf of California. They are usually found near shores or well out to sea, very rarely inland. The species is named after Adolphus Lewis Heermann, nineteenth-century explorer and naturalist.
Image: Larus heermanni 13
Image: Larus heermanni at Richardson Bay
Adult and fledgling by Roberts Lake in Seaside, California.
in Bahia de Kino, Sonora, Mexico
Gulls, or colloquially seagulls, are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari. They are most closely related to the terns and skimmers and distantly related to auks, and even more distantly to waders. Until the 21st century, most gulls were placed in the genus Larus, but that arrangement is now considered polyphyletic, leading to the resurrection of several genera. An older name for gulls is mews, which is cognate with German Möwe, Danish måge, Swedish mås, Dutch meeuw, Norwegian måke/måse, and French mouette, and can still be found in certain regional dialects.
Gull
Juvenile of Armenian gull in flight, flying over Lake Sevan
The Pacific gull is a large white-headed gull with a particularly heavy bill.
Swallow-tailed gulls are endemic to the Galapagos Islands.
