Black-headed Gull

Chroicocephalus ridibundus

Black-headed Gull photographed by Apple
Bakewell, Derbyshire Dales
Black-headed Gull photographed by Jess
Speke, Liverpool, England · August 10, 2026
Black-headed Gull photographed by Jess
Speke, Liverpool, England · August 10, 2026

When to look

Reported most in April, across 4.7M open records.

Records by month. January, 431,938 records. February, 320,979 records. March, 441,500 records. April, 531,830 records. May, 496,455 records. June, 405,090 records. July, 378,105 records. August, 344,732 records. September, 320,877 records. October, 347,926 records. November, 303,237 records. December, 334,982 records.

Occurrence data from GBIF (incl. the eBird Observation Dataset, © Cornell Lab of Ornithology, CC BY 4.0). Descriptive, not predictive.

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