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Sooty Gull
Ichthyaetus hemprichii (Bruch, 1855)
Also calledArabistan Martısı (tur) · Brúnmáfur (isl) · Faoileán súicheach (gle) · Foillan sooieagh (gla) · Gabbiano dal collare (ita) · Gabbiano di Hemprich (ita) · Garavi galeb (hrv) · Gaviota cejiblanca (spa) · Goéland de Hemprich (fra) · Gožuskávli (sme) · Hemprichmöwe (deu) · Hemprichs Meeuw (nld) · Shakwe kijivucheusi (swa) · adeninis kiras (lit)
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
Distribution
Breeding regions are AF, PAL. Breeding subregions are islands of Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Socotra, nw Indian Ocean to ne Kenya, Persian Gulf and nw Arabian Sea to s Pakistan. Non breeding regions are to Gulf of Aqaba (se Israel) and c Tanzania and Zanzibar.
IOC World Bird List, v
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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Every page naming Ichthyaetus hemprichii in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 8303453.