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Naujavaaq • Ivory Gull

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Naujavaaq • Ivory Gull

Naujavaaq • Ivory Gull

A small gull, the Ivory Gull breeds on in the Canadian high arctic and has a circumpolar distribution ranging from North America, Eurasia and Greenland. The Ivory Gull eats fish, crustaceans rodents and eggs and is also an opportunist scavenger that feeds on the carcasses of porpoises and seals.

Main Photo Credit: Ivory Gull by Alan Schmierer, 2010. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GULL,_IVORY_(11-7-10)_pismo_beach,_slo_co,_ca_-07_(5156201811).jpg. Licenced with Public Domain.
Second Photo Credit: Ivory Gull by Kersti Nebelsiek, 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory_gull#/media/File:Ivory_Gull_1.jpg. Licenced with CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0.