Brown-hooded Gull (Chroicocephalus maculipennis)

Brown-hooded Gull (Chroicocephalus maculipennis) - Breeding

Class: Aves
Family: Laridae
Common Name: Brown-hooded Gull
Genus: Chroicocephalus
Species Name: maculipennis

About The Brown-hooded Gull

This species is found in South America, breeding from south-central Chile round Tierra del Fuego to Argentina and Uruguay including the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), and wintering up to the coasts of north Chile and central Brazil¹.

Rights Holder: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Bibliographic Citation: BirdLife International 2012. Larus maculipennis. In: IUCN 2014 . IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1 . <www.iucnredlist.org>