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Kingdom: Animalia > Phylum: Chordata > Class: Aves > Order: Charadriiformes > Family: Laridae > Genus: Larus > Species: Larus armenicus

Armenian Gull - Larus armenicus Buturlin, 1934

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Threat status Europe	Near Threatened (IUCN)
EU Population status	Threatened
Protected by	2 international agreements
Natura 2000 species code	A798

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Threat and EU population status

IUCN Red List status of threatened species

The IUCN Red List threat status assesses the risk of extinction.

World

Near Threatened

Europe

Near Threatened

Not evaluated

EU population status

The status of the population at the EU level was evaluated at the species level; this was based on the reports delivered by Member States under Article 12 of the Birds Directive (see fact sheet below). The EU status assessment can cover several subspecies/subspecific population units. For more information, please consult the species fact sheet and link below.

IUCN Red List Category

Not Evaluated	Near Threatened	Regionally Extinct
Not Applicable	Vulnerable	Extinct in the Wild
Data Deficient	Endangered	Extinct
Least Concern	Critically Endangered

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Population status categories for bird species under the Birds Directive

Secure

Near Threatened, declining or depleted

Threatened (i.e. vulnerable, endangered, critically endangered, regionally extinct)

Unknown or not evaluated

Natura 2000 sites

Not available

Legal status

Mentioned in the following international legal instruments and agreements

Legal text	Annex	Conditions	More information
Convention on the conservation of European wildlife and natural habitats (Bern Convention)	Annex III: protected fauna species (All species of Birds not included in Appendix II)		http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cul.../bern/default_en.asp
Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals. (Bonn Convention)	Annex II: migratory species which have an unfavourable conservation status and which require international agreements for their conservation and management, as well as those which have a conservation status which would significantly benefit from the international co-operation that could be achieved by an international agreement.	Synonym for this species is listed in Appendix II of the Bonn Convention (CMS). See there for more details.	http://www.cms.int/

Common names and synonyms

Common Name	Language	Reference
Armeense Meeuw	Dutch	Hagemeijer, W.J.M. & Blair, M.J.
Armenian Gull	English	Hagemeijer, W.J.M. & Blair, M.J.
Armenianlokki	Finnish	Hagemeijer, W.J.M. & Blair, M.J.
Armeniermöwe	German	Hagemeijer, W.J.M. & Blair, M.J.
Armenisk trut	Swedish	Hagemeijer, W.J.M. & Blair, M.J.
Gabbiano di Armenia	Italian	Hagemeijer, W.J.M. & Blair, M.J.
Gaivota da Arménia	Portuguese	Hagemeijer, W.J.M. & Blair, M.J.
Gaviota Armenia	Spanish	Hagemeijer, W.J.M. & Blair, M.J.
Goéland d'Arménie	French	Hagemeijer, W.J.M. & Blair, M.J.
Örmény sirály	Hungarian	Hagemeijer, W.J.M. & Blair, M.J.
Racek arménský	Czech	Hagemeijer, W.J.M. & Blair, M.J.

Synonym	Author
Larus argentatus armenicus	Buturlin, 1924
All species of Birds not included in Appendix II

Other resources

EBCC Atlas of breeding birds	European Bird Census Council's Atlas of Breeding Birds
EoL	Encyclopedia of Life
Fauna Europaea	Fauna Europaea
GBIF	Global Biodiversity Information Facility
ITIS (Valid name)	Interagency Taxonomic Information System
NCBI search	National Center for Biotechnology Information
PESI (Accepted)	Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure
Wikipedia	Wikipedia

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