Gowden maw
| Gowden maw | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Cless: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Faimily: | Laridae |
| Genus: | Larus |
| Species: | L. hyperboreus |
| Binomial name | |
| Larus hyperboreus Gunnerus, 1767
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The gowden maw (Larus hyperboreus) (burgie, muckle scorrie) is a lairge gou, the seicont lairgest gou in the warld that breeds in Arctic regions o the Northren Hemisphere an winters sooth tae shores o the Holarctic.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ BirdLife International (2015). "Larus hyperboreus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2015: e.T22694343A85048979. Retrieved 4 Mey 2016.