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title: "Hartlaub's Gull"
description: "Chroicocephalus hartlaubii — Uccelli. Hartlaub's gull (Chroicocephalus hartlaubii) is a small gull in the genus Chroicocephalus."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/hartlaub-s-gull
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Hartlaub's Gull

> Chroicocephalus hartlaubii — Uccelli. Hartlaub's gull (Chroicocephalus hartlaubii) is a small gull in the genus Chroicocephalus.

- Scientific name: *Chroicocephalus hartlaubii*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mare e costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 5175
- Wikidata: [Q1274356](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1274356)
- iNaturalist taxon: [144509](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/144509)

## Names

- en: Hartlaub's Gull
- de: Hartlaubmöwe
- es: Gaviota Plateada Sudafricana
- fr: Mouette de Hartlaub
- nl: Hartlaubs meeuw
- pt: Gaivota-de-hartlaub
- pl: Mewa przylądkowa

## Countries with the most observations

ZA (4507), NA (544)

## Summary

Hartlaub's gull (Chroicocephalus hartlaubii) is a small gull in the genus Chroicocephalus. It was formerly (as with other related gulls) placed in the genus Larus until genetic research demonstrated that the old broad view of that genus was paraphyletic. In the past it had sometimes been treated as a subspecies of the Australasian silver gull (C. novaehollandiae), but is now treated as a separate species; current genetic evidence suggests its closest relative is not the silver gull but the African and South American grey-headed gull (C. cirrocephalus), and in particular the African subspecies of it C. c. poiocephalus…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartlaub%27s_gull

## Photo

![Hartlaub's Gull](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/hartlaub-s-gull/medium.jpg)

Photo: Andrew Deacon · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/256234048

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/hartlaub-s-gull?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).