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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-06

Leucophaeus pipixcan

Franklin's Gull

WoRMS 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)

Silhouette · Kai Caspar · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Leucophaeus modestus
Franklin's Gull38 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · sealifebase

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

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

Observed in
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One row per dataset, 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.

  • Seabirds & Marine Mammals 7 obs · 7 events · 1995–2013
    name used: Leucophaeus pipixcan Franklin's Gull · code FRGU re-keyed

How big is it
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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.

Groups

calcofi:seabirds

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
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