The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Larus ichthyaetus

 – Least Concern

Taxonomy

Kingdom: ANIMALIA
Phylum: CHORDATA
Class: AVES
Order: CHARADRIIFORMES
Family: LARIDAE
Scientific Name: Larus ichthyaetus
Species Authority: Pallas, 1773
Common Name/s:
EnglishGREAT BLACK-HEADED GULL

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria: LC    ver 3.1 (2001)
Year Assessed: 2004
Assessor/s: BirdLife International
Evaluator/s: Ekstrom, J. & Butchart, S. (BirdLife International Red List Authority)
Justification: This species has a large range, with an estimated global extent of occurrence of 1,000,000–10,000,000 km². It has a large global population estimated to be 97,000–220,000 individuals (Wetlands International 2002). Global population trends have not been quantified, but the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e., declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
History:
1988-Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2004)
1994-Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2004)
2000-Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2000)

Geographic Range

Range Description: This species has a large range, with an estimated global Extent of Occurrence of 1,000,000-10,000,000 km². It has a large global population estimated to be 97,000-220,000 individuals (Wetlands International 2002). Global population trends have not been quantified, but the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e. declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
Countries: Native:

Afghanistan; Azerbaijan; Bahrain; Bangladesh; Bhutan; China; Egypt; Eritrea; Georgia; India; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Iraq; Israel; Japan; Kazakhstan; Kenya; Kuwait; Kyrgyzstan; Mongolia; Myanmar; Nepal; Oman; Pakistan; Qatar; Romania; Russian Federation; Saudi Arabia; Sri Lanka; Sudan; Tajikistan; Thailand; Turkey; Ukraine; United Arab Emirates; Uzbekistan; Yemen


Vagrant:

Austria; Belgium; Cyprus; Denmark; France; Greece; Hong Kong; Hungary; Italy; Jordan; Lao People's Democratic Republic; Latvia; Lebanon; Maldives; Malta; Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Somalia; Sweden; Syrian Arab Republic; Tunisia; Uganda; United Kingdom


Regionally extinct:

Turkmenistan

Habitat and Ecology

System: Terrestrial; Marine

Bibliography

Bibliography:

Bird Reference Citations. The numbers inserted in the text accounts above (usually in bold) refer to references. For further details on these references, click on the BirdLife International link above to go to the specific species account on the BirdLife web site. In some cases, particularly in the taxonomic notes, the references are cited using the author names. Details for these can be found on the BirdLife International web site at the following two places: For References from A–L. For References from M–Z.

BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.

BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.


Citation: BirdLife International 2004. Larus ichthyaetus. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 08 September 2008.
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