Skimmers, Noddies, Terns, and Gulls
Pallas’s Gull
Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus
- Family
- Skimmers, Noddies, Terns, and Gulls (Laridae)
- Order
- Charadriiformes
Overview
Pallas's gull (Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus), also known as the great black-headed gull, is a large bird species. As is the case with many gulls, it has traditionally been placed in the genus Larus. The scientific name is from Ancient Greek. Ichthyaetus is from ikhthus, "fish", and aetos, "eagle".
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Breeds patchily on lake islands from Crimea eastward through Kazakhstan and Mongolia to Gansu, Qinghai, and Inner Mongolia (west-central China); winters to coasts, landlocked seas, and rivers from Black Sea eastward across Bay of Bengal to Bangladesh and south-central Myanmar.
Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.
Continents
Countries
- Afghanistan
- Armenia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- China
- Denmark
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- India
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Italy
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Latvia
- Libya
- Mongolia
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palestine
- Poland
- Qatar
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Somalia
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sweden
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United States
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam
- Yemen
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Pallas's gull
- eBird: sightings, maps and photos
- xeno-canto: sound recordings
- Birds of the World: full species account (subscription)
- BirdLife DataZone: status and threats
- IUCN Red List (threat status)
- AviList global checklist (taxonomy)
Last updated September 29, 2026.
