Gulls & Terns in Dumfries and Galloway
Our list for Dumfries and Galloway has 10 gulls & terns recorded regularly there: 4 residents, 3 summer visitors and 3 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Dumfries and Galloway in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 10, most common first
European Herring GullLarus argentatusResidentCommon55–67 cmRecorded all year
Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscusSummer visitorCommon52–64 cmRecorded all year
Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundusResidentCommon38–44 cmRecorded all year
Common GullLarus canusResidentCommon40–46 cmRecorded all year
Great Black-backed GullLarus marinusResidentCommon64–79 cmRecorded all year
KittiwakeRissa tridactylaSummer visitorCommon37–41 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensisPassage migrantCommon36–41 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Common TernSterna hirundoSummer visitorUncommon31–35 cmRegularly May–Aug
Arctic TernSterna paradisaeaPassage migrantUncommon33–39 cmRegularly May
Mediterranean GullIchthyaetus melanocephalusPassage migrantUncommon37–40 cmRegularly Jul–Jan
Smallest to largest
Length, cmData: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made