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Leucophaeus pipixcan

Franklin's Gull

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-06WoRMS 159077ITIS 824082key itis:824082
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2026-08-05: worms_id 159077 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted); itis:176838 deprecated in ITIS -> itis:824082 (Leucophaeus pipixcan)

calcofi:seabirds

CalCOFI holds 7 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1995 and 2013.R

7
observations
7
records
7
sampling events
1995–2013
years
1
datasets
38 cm
max length
The Franklin's Gull (Leucophaeus pipixcan) is found across the prairies. This gull will follow as farmers work their fields in order to make easy pickings of the worms, grubs, insects, and mice that a
Photo · USFWS Mountain-Prairie · Public domain · commons

Observed in 1 dataset
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One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Seabirds & Marine Mammals table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/farallon_bird-mammal.html?&taxon_key=%22itis:824082%22

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 38 cm max
Franklin's Gull38 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · sealifebase

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.

Lineage 11 ranks · Animalia to Leucophaeus
Credits silhouette · photo · length
  • Silhouette · Kai Caspar · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Leucophaeus modestus · source
  • Photo · USFWS Mountain-Prairie · Public domain · commons · source
  • Length · sealifebase
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistGBIF

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 ↗