Naujavaaq • Ivory Gull

Bird - Pagophila eburnea

A small gull, the Ivory Gull breeds on in the Canadian high arctic and has a circumpolar distribution ranging from North America, Eurasia and Greenland. The Ivory Gull eats fish, crustaceans rodents and eggs and is also an opportunist scavenger that feeds on the carcasses of porpoises and seals.

Main Photo Credit: Ivory Gull by Alan Schmierer, 2010. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GULL,_IVORY_(11-7-10)_pismo_beach,_slo_co,_ca_-07_(5156201811).jpg. Licenced with Public Domain.
Second Photo Credit: Ivory Gull by Kersti Nebelsiek, 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory_gull#/media/File:Ivory_Gull_1.jpg. Licenced with CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0.

Cree

Term Dialect
Aškîmewi-Kiyâškʷ L-dialect Cree

English

Term Dialect
Ivory Gull Standard English

Français

Term Dialect
Mouette blanche Français canadien

Greenlandic

Term Dialect
Naajavaarsuk Kalaallisut

Inuktut

Term Dialect
Naujalluk Nunatsiavummiutut
Naujarluk Nunavimmiutitut - Sanikiluarmiut

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