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Little Gull

Hydrocoloeus minutus

23,156Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
104Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan581
Feb418
Mar1,112
Apr3,902
May2,828
Jun1,912
Jul2,675
Aug2,673
Sep2,431
Oct2,601
Nov1,584
Dec434

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1East Riding of Yorkshire England2,415
2Suffolk England2,168
3Norfolk England2,035
4Cambridgeshire England1,763
5Kent England1,350
6Lincolnshire England706
7East Lothian Scotland608
8Rutland England526
9Sefton England516
10Fife Scotland516
11Surrey England502
12North Yorkshire England313
13Dorset England269
14Cornwall England235
15Oxfordshire England231
20,323 England2,123 Scotland281 Wales152 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 104 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
23,156
Peak month
April
Counties with records
104
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Hydrocoloeus minutus
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,489
Conservation designations
Bern Convention, Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, Convention on Migratory Species, Birds Directive
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Laridae
Genus
Hydrocoloeus
Name with authority
Hydrocoloeus minutus (Pallas, 1776)
Described
1776
Contributing datasets
22

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q164467 · GBIF 6065841