Kelp Gull
Larus dominicanus
Aves
COMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- 15-28 yrs
- Size
- Large
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Social
- Colony
- Biome
- Coastal shoreline
- Range
- Southern Hemisphere
- Movement
- Flight
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Herd Safety
- Status
- Common
About
The Kelp Gull is a large seabird with a jet-black mantle and pure white underparts, among the most widespread gulls in the Southern Hemisphere. Some populations in Argentina have learned to feed by pecking the skin and blubber of living Southern Right Whales.
Life cycle
- 1.eggA clutch of eggs is incubated in the nest, kept warm by a brooding parent until the chicks pip free.
- 2.hatchlingA naked or downy hatchling is fed in the nest by its parents.
- 3.juvenileA feathered juvenile fledges from the nest and learns to fly and forage.
- 4.adultFully grown with adult plumage.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Laridae
- Genus
- Larus
- Species
- Larus dominicanus