Galapagos Species Database
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Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus
Gaviota Cabecigrís, Gray-headed Gull
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Laridae
Genus
Chroicocephalus
Species
cirrocephalus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Larus cirrocephalus Vieillot, 1818
Origin: Vagrant
Distribution: Recorded on San Cristóbal 9 August 1978, in Puerto Baquerizo Moreno 30 July 1991, on Isabela, in Puerto Villamil 28 December 1983 and 18 January 1984. Also recorded at Caleta Tortuga Negra (Santa Cruz), 16 May 2013. Here it was erroneously recorded as Dolphin Gull (Leucophaeus scoresbii).
- Wiedenfeld, D.A. (2006) Aves, the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Check List 2006 2(2): 1-27.
- Jones, H.L. (2000) First record in the Galápagos Islands of Grey-headed Gull Larus cirrocephalus. Cotinga 14: 103.
- Freire, J.F. Ahlman, R., Brinkuizen, D.M., Greenfield, P.J., Solano-Ugalde, A., Navarrete, L., Ridgely, R.S. (2013) Rare birds in Ecuador: first annual report of the Committee of Ecuadorian Records in Ornithology (CERO) Avances 5(2):B24-B41.
- Freile, J.F. Santander, T., Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G., Carrasco, L., Cisneros-Heredia, D., Guevara, E., Sánchez-Nivicela, M., Tinoco, B. (2019) Lista Roja de las aves del Ecuador Quito, Ecuador. 97 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=16825. Accessed 10 May 2025.