The Ross’s gull gets its name from Sir James Clark Ross, the 19the century British explorer who spotted the bird in one of his expeditions to the Arctic.
The Ross’s gull is a rare species of gull, which is hard to find anywhere beyond the remote sub-tundra of Russia, Canada and, certainly, the ice of the Arctic seas. The Russian ornithologist, Sergei Aleksandrovich Buturlin, discovered the breeding grounds of these birds for the first time in 1905 near the village of Pokhodsk in North-Eastern Yakutia, while visiting the area as a judge.
The bird migrates only for short distances to the south in autumn. It does not have a specific diet and eats any suitable small prey such as small fish and crustaceans.
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