Ivory Gull

Ivory Gull

Ivory Gull: A pure white gull whose entire life is restricted to the edge of the floating pack ice. Legs dark, bill dusky with yellow tip. It eats fish, insects, lemmings and crustaceans, and is also an active scavenger. Bouyant, graceful flight. Often flies with feet trailing and dangling below.

● Song: "keear"

● Foraging & Feeding: Ivory Gull: Uses a wide variety of hunting techniques for catching invertebrates or small fish. Hovers over open water, plunge dives, swims on the surface, or walks along beaches. Often hunts at night.

● Breeding & nesting: Ivory Gull: Nests in colonies on open ground or on cliff ledges. Both sexes bring a wide variety of materials to form a simple nest in which one to three yellow brown eggs marked with dark olive, brown or black, are laid. Both sexes incubate eggs for 24 to 26 days, chicks fledge at 30 to 35 days old.

● Similar species: None in range

Flight Pattern