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Gull ivory

(Pagophila eburnea)

Body length is 43 cm on average, wingspan is 110 cm. It is the only
gull with a completely pure white plumage. The beak is bluish-gray with
a yellow apex. Legs are black. Young bird is white with small dark-
brown spots, including on the tops of flight and tail feathers.
It feeds on fish and invertebrates: crustaceans and molluscs, as well as
food waste and animal corpses.
In the waters of the Sakhalin region, ivory gulls were sighted in
December in the ice of the Sea of Okhotsk off the coast of eastern
Sakhalin, in February — on Lake Changeable, in May — to the Chaivo
Bay, in April — in st. Catherine, Kuril Islands. General distribution —
Europe, Asia, North America.

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