Leucophaeus atricilla
The laughing gull is a medium-sized gull of North and South America. Named from its laugh-like call, it is an opportunistic omnivore and scavenger.W CalCOFI holds 13 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1988 and 2013.R
- 13
- observations
- 13
- records
- 1988–2013
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 43 cm
- max length
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:824079")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'itis:824079'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.21, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it 43 cm max
Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.
Under it 1 taxon
- ssp Leucophaeus atricilla atricilla Laughing Gull13
Lineage 11 ranks · Animalia to Leucophaeus
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
- Silhouette · Kai Caspar · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Leucophaeus modestus · source
- Photo · Blake Ross · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Laughing gull” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1357301850
- Length · sealifebase
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF · eBird
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.21
Cite the release, v2026.10.21; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗