Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online athttps://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 page(s): 136 [details] Available for editors
Description Length: 51-61 cm. Plumage: wings and back black; rest of plumage white; trailing edge of wing and tips of primaries white....
Description Length: 51-61 cm. Plumage: wings and back black; rest of plumage white; trailing edge of wing and tips of primaries white. Immature brown replaces black of adult; white parts mottled brown with less mottling on foreneck, breast and belly, wide dark band on tail. Bare parts: iris cream to white; eyering red to orange; bill yellow with red spot near tip of lower mandible, blackish to pale greyish with black tip in immature; feet and legs yellow, pinkish in immature. Habitat: coast and inland waters. Palearctic migrant. <389><391><393> [details]
Distribution Caribbean; North America; regular at sites from Eastern Canada, from the Bay of Fundy south
Distribution Caribbean; North America; regular at sites from Eastern Canada, from the Bay of Fundy south [details]
original descriptionLinnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online athttps://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 page(s): 136 [details] Available for editors
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basis of recordvan der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376 (look up in IMIS) [details]
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
North Atlantic Ocean
Unreviewed
Baltic Sea
Belgium
Djibouti
Eritrea
Federal Republic of Somalia
France
Gulf of Mexico
Ireland
Kenya
Mozambique
North Atlantic Ocean
Red Sea
South Africa
Sweden
Tanzania
(no group)
Unreviewed
Description Length: 51-61 cm. Plumage: wings and back black; rest of plumage white; trailing edge of wing and tips of primaries white. Immature brown replaces black of adult; white parts mottled brown with less mottling on foreneck, breast and belly, wide dark band on tail. Bare parts: iris cream to white; eyering red to orange; bill yellow with red spot near tip of lower mandible, blackish to pale greyish with black tip in immature; feet and legs yellow, pinkish in immature. Habitat: coast and inland waters. Palearctic migrant. <389><391><393> [details] Dimensions Length: 21" (53 cm); Wingspan: 54" (137 cm) [details] Distribution Caribbean; North America; regular at sites from Eastern Canada, from the Bay of Fundy south [details] Remark Forms a superspecies with L. dominicanus & L. argentatus [details] Reproduction Breeds from Iceland and the northern coast of Europe south to the British Isles and France. Winters from its Breeding range south to central Africa and western Asia. [details]
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