---
title: "Simeons meeuw"
description: "Larus belcheri — Vogels. Belcher's gull (Larus belcheri), also known as the band-tailed gull, is a bird in the family Laridae found along the Pacific coast of South America."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/belcher-s-gull
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Simeons meeuw

> Larus belcheri — Vogels. Belcher's gull (Larus belcheri), also known as the band-tailed gull, is a bird in the family Laridae found along the Pacific coast of South America.

- Scientific name: *Larus belcheri*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `sea` (Zee en kust)
- iNaturalist observations: 2614
- Wikidata: [Q478233](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q478233)
- iNaturalist taxon: [4371](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4371)

## Names

- en: Belcher's Gull
- de: Simeonsmöwe
- es: Gaviota peruana
- fr: Goéland siméon
- nl: Simeons meeuw
- pt: Gaivota-de-rabo-bandeado
- pl: Mewa pręgosterna

## Countries with the most observations

PE (2039), CL (455), EC (6)

## Summary

Belcher's gull (Larus belcheri), also known as the band-tailed gull, is a bird in the family Laridae found along the Pacific coast of South America. It formerly included the very similar Olrog's gull as a subspecies, but that bird occurs on the Atlantic coast of South America and is now accepted as a separate species Larus atlanticus. Belcher's gull is a medium-sized gull with a blackish mantle, white head and underparts, a black band on the otherwise white tail, and a yellow bill with a red and black tip. Non-breeding adults have a brownish-black head and a white eye-ring. The name commemorates the British explorer…

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

## Photo

![Simeons meeuw](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/belcher-s-gull/medium.jpg)

Photo: Dario Taraborelli · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/273597418

## Machine access

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