Status of the endangered
Ivory Gull, Pagophila eburnea, in Greenland.
Those birds that seem clearly to have changed their status over the period covered are
Ivory Gull (Pagophila eburnea), a regular visitor in the 1970s but not seen since 2003; Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus), not seen in the 1970s, but seen frequently since 2000; and Baird's Sandpiper, recorded only once in the 1970s, but seen regularly since 2000 and proven to breed twice (Fig.
Sabine's gull (Xema sabini), Ross's gull (Rhodostethia rosea) and
ivory gull (Pagophila eburnea).
"I travel the country to see rare birds and on December 31 I went with friends all the way to Montrose Basin in the north of Scotland to see a young spotted
ivory gull.
Mallory and Gilchrist (2005) noted that
ivory gulls (Pagophila eburnea) were observed at Cape Vera, and at St.
Key words:
ivory gull, Pagophila eburnea, Nunavut, banding
TWITCHERS from all over the UK swooped on a North Wales beach to catch a rare glimpse of the first adult
ivory gull to be seen in Wales or England since 1954.
ALAN Davies of the RSPB, the Daily Post's own bird expert says: "This beautiful Arctic vagrant, the
ivory gull, an inhabitant of the Artic Ocean, was found feeding on the carcass of a porpoise.
Though travelling the Arctic seas with tourists on cruise ships was certainly very different from walking the tundra in search of skua, Ko managed to continue to collect important biological information on some of the least-known populations of rare Arctic species, e.g., the bowhead whale in Franz Josef Land and the
ivory gull in Severnaya Zemlya (de Korte and Belikov, 1994; Volkov and de Korte, 1996).
Key words:
ivory gull, Pagophila eburnea, arctic cod, Boreogadus saida, North Water polynya, star-nosed mole, Condylura cristata, stable isotope analysis, carbon-13, nitrogen-15.
Like the other two true Arctic gull species, Sabine's gull (Xema sabini) and to a lesser degree
ivory gull (Pagophila eburnea), Ross's gull shows a strong preference for nesting in the vicinity of arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) colonies in Greenland.
Like the
ivory gull (Pagophila eburnea), this species is usually associated with polar environments (Blomqvist and Elander, 1981; Hjort, 1982).