Brown-hooded Gull
Chroicocephalus maculipennis
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 5,339
- Most observed in
- 🇦🇷 Argentina
Description
The brown-hooded gull (Chroicocephalus maculipennis) is a species of gull, found in South America in Argentina, southeastern Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, and in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Falkland Islands. Its specific epithet, maculipennis, means 'spotted wings' (macula + penna). Like the other species of the genus Chroicocephalus, it was formerly included in a broad view of the genus Larus.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Brown-hooded gull”.