English: Ross’s Gull  

Russian: Розовая чайка

Mongolian: Хүзүүвчит ягаандай

German: Rosenmowe

French: Mouette de Ross

Japanese:  ヒメクビワカモメ (Hime-kubiwa-kamome)

Body length: 29-32 cm.
Wing span: 73-80 cm.

Breeds in High Arctic of NE Siberia and N America. Vagrant to N Europe, recently with a few records annually in Britain and Ireland.

Identification: Two age-groups. Resembles Little Gull in habits and size, but slightly larger, with longer, more pointed wings and long tail with pointed tip. At distance likely to be overlooked as Little Gull.

• Adult summer: Neat black neck-ring, pink-flushed underparts, white trailing edge to wing broader than on Little Gull and not extending around wing-tip.
• Adult winter: Like adult summer, but neck-ring replaced by small dark ear-spot, dark area in front of eye, and pale grey on crown, neck and breast-sides; underparts often white.
  
• 1st year: Dark ‘W-pattern’ like Little Gull, but less black on primaries and lacks secondary bar, giving broader white trailing edge, accentuated below by ashy-grey greater underwing-coverts; lacks Little Gull’s full tail-band and blackish cap.
  
• 1st summer may have partial or full neck-ring.