Species profile
Brown-hooded Gull
Chroicocephalus maculipennis
Quick answer
Lakes, rivers and coasts of s South America and Falkland Is.
- Scientific name
- Chroicocephalus maculipennis
- Family
- Laridae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Genus
- Chroicocephalus
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
Recording Brown-hooded Gull in your journal
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