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Where does the Black-headed Gull live?

Chroicocephalus ridibundus has 6,842,357 records in 176 countries and territories, from 1787 to 2026. Most records come from United Kingdom.

Black-headed Gull
Black-headed Gull — Photo: Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataAvesCharadriiformesLaridaeChroicocephalus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: June. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

17872026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United Kingdom 1,084,346
Sweden 970,248
Netherlands 863,580
Denmark 734,207
Finland 501,722
France 455,245
Spain 362,711
Norway 296,199
Belgium 232,520
Germany 215,783
Poland 134,868
Portugal 118,650
Russia 89,613
Italy 81,121
Iceland 57,447
Ireland 53,713
Estonia 45,088
Czechia 44,868
Taiwan 35,639
Türkiye 34,523
Switzerland 32,691
Austria 32,030
India 28,992
Israel 24,115
United States 23,612
China 19,259
Ukraine 18,985
Greece 18,768
Canada 18,201
United Arab Emirates 17,835
Hungary 17,337
Serbia 17,013
Japan 15,878
Bulgaria 12,760
Romania 9,714
Lithuania 8,649
Croatia 8,170
South Korea 7,453
Isle of Man 7,296
Belarus 7,102

Showing the top 40 of 176 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.