Iceland Gull                      Welcome to Zonein's Animals of the Arctic information files.
Common name: Iceland Gull

Scientific name: Larus glaucoides

Location: Arctic regions of Canada and Greenlandfound

Size: lengths up to 63cm, weight up to 1kg

Life Span:  33 years

Current Status: not endangered

Habitat: Coastal areas and lakes

Fast facts:
---diets consists of fish, eggs, scraps, molluscs
---can lay up to 3 eggs
---makes nest from grass, seaweed or moss

 

 

Iceland Gull
Iceland Gull -- Bluffer's Park, Toronto, Canada -- 2006 February
Photo by Mdf