ARCTIC Sabine’s Gull (Xema sabini), Ross’s Gull (Rhodostethia rosea) and Ivory Gull (Pagophila eburnea) Gulls in the Arctic: A Review

• Main Authors: Sven Blomqvist, Magnus Elander
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Devon Island; Greenland; Peary; Peary Land; Taymyr; Churchill; Disko Bay; East Greenland; ivory gull; Pagophila eburnea; Taymyr Peninsula; Xema sabini; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.526.5249; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic34-2-122.pdf

ABSTRACT. The earliest information on Sabine’s gull, Ross’s gull and Ivory gull was collected by several heroic arctic explorers during the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. Ross’s gull was discovered in northern Canada in 1823 by James C. Ross and Sabine’s gull in northwestern...