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Hartlaub's Gull

Chroicocephalus hartlaubii

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in South Africa.January 267, February 174, March 203, April 556, May 200, June 164, July 167, August 221, September 249, October 363, November 242, December 248.
South Africa3,054
Western Cape2,993
Nothern Cape30
Eastern Cape24
KwaZulu-Natal7

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Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumChordates · Chordata
ClassBirds · Aves
OrderShorebirds and Allies · Charadriiformes
FamilyGulls, Terns, and Skimmers · Laridae
GenusMasked Gulls and allies · Chroicocephalus

Sources

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