Hartlaub's Gull (Chroicocephalus hartlaubii)
About the Hartlaub's Gull
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 (with the possibility that C. cirrocephalus is paraphyletic with respect to C. hartlaubii: Černý & Natale 2022, Fig. 6).
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 35 recordings for this species: 3 CC BY-NC-SA · 1 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Namibia, South Africa in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Andean GullChroicocephalus serranusrecording
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundusrecording
- Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphiarecording
- Grey-headed GullChroicocephalus cirrocephalusrecording
- Silver GullChroicocephalus novaehollandiaerecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.