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First Record of the Kelp Gull and Significant Records of the Glaucous-winged and Laughing Gulls for the Central Pacific

Mark J. Rauzon and H. Lee Jones

ABSTRACT: We report three species of gulls on islands in the mid-Pacific Ocean from 1999 to 2004, including the first Pacific Ocean record of the Kelp Gull (Larus dominicanus) north of the equator, a new southernmost record for the Glaucous-winged Gull (L. glaucescens) on Christmas Island, and Laughing Gulls (L. atricilla) from Wake Atoll, with additional recent sightings and historical records from other atolls.

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