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title: "Mongolian Gull"
description: "Larus mongolicus — Ptaki. The Vega gull, East Siberian gull, or East Siberian herring gull (Larus vegae) is a large gull of the herring gull/lesser black-backed gull complex which breeds in Northeast Asia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/mongolian-gull
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Mongolian Gull

> Larus mongolicus — Ptaki. The Vega gull, East Siberian gull, or East Siberian herring gull (Larus vegae) is a large gull of the herring gull/lesser black-backed gull complex which breeds in Northeast Asia.

- Scientific name: *Larus mongolicus*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Jeziora i rzeki), `sea` (Morze i wybrzeże)
- iNaturalist observations: 2864
- iNaturalist taxon: [480198](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/480198)

## Names

- en: Mongolian Gull
- de: Mongolenmöwe
- es: Gaviota argéntea mongola
- fr: Goéland de Mongolie

## Countries with the most observations

RU (1109), KR (312), CN (286), MN (124), TW (14), TH (12), HK (5)

## Summary

The Vega gull, East Siberian gull, or East Siberian herring gull (Larus vegae) is a large gull of the herring gull/lesser black-backed gull complex which breeds in Northeast Asia. Its classification is still controversial and uncertain. It is variously treated as a separate species, as a subspecies of the American herring gull (L. smithsonianus) or included with both the American herring gull and European herring gull in L. argentatus. The Mongolian gull Larus mongolicus was formerly regarded as a subspecies of Vega gull. It was described in 1887 from specimens collected on the 1878–1880 Vega Expedition on the Swedish…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_gull

## Photo

![Mongolian Gull](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/mongolian-gull/medium.jpg)

Photo: Лариса Артемьева · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/115699365

## Machine access

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