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Thayer's Gull

Larus thayeri

A winter visitor to North Carolina, found in 19 of 100 counties and 4 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
19 of 100 counties
Habitats
4

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
19 of 100 counties
Habitats
4
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in North Carolina 4

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 4

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Georgia pond and emergent wetland
WinterOpen Water (Fresh)Regional / representative. Shown: Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Georgia; representative pond ecosystem, a neighboring state.Georgia pond and emergent wetland, Robert 'Bob' Hynes, 1997. Public domain. Source record.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Black Mountainlabel QS:Len,"Black Mountain"
WinterDeveloped, Open SpaceLyell Carr, Black Mountain: a pasture and hayfield with a log barn, rail fence and grazing cow below the Black Mountains. Black Mountain, North Carolina (Lyell E. Carr)Black Mountainlabel QS:Len,"Black Mountain", Lyell Carr, c. 1890-1912. Public domain. Source record.

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Wet ground taken over by weedy or introduced plants after disturbance, such as common reed, Chinese tallow or tamarisk stands; the upland counterpart is roadsides, fields and disturbed ground.

Winter

Sounds, bays and tidal flats

Salt and brackish open water of sounds, bays and estuaries, with the mud and sand flats and seagrass beds that tides cover and uncover; the vegetated marsh is salt and brackish marshes.

WinterOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)
Other habitats in its models (3)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in North Carolina. Those recorded in North Carolina first, the rest by region.

Land cover and other classes (3)
  • Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
  • Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in North Carolina

  • Winter: does not nest here, in 19 of 100 counties.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in North Carolina, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 120

Plants 23

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in North Carolina

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 89

Plants 1314

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in North Carolina

Sounds, bays and tidal flats

Birds 78

Plants 11

All of sounds, bays and tidal flats in North Carolina

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources