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BirdLife International. 2015. European Red List of Birds. Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg.
Burger, J.; Gochfeld, M.; Garcia, E.F.J. 2018. Ross's Gull (Rhodostethia rosea). In: del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (ed.), Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive, Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
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Gilg, O.; Andreev, A.; Aebischer, A.; Kondratyev, A.; Sokolov, A.; Dixon, A. 2016. Satellite tracking of Ross’s gull Rhodostethia rosea in the Arctic Ocean. Journal of Ornithology 157: 249-253.
IUCN. 2020. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2020-3. Available at: https://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 10 December 2020).
Joiris, C.R. 2017. Drastic decrease in high Arctic gulls—ivory Pagophila eburnea and Ross’s Rhodostethia rosea—density in the northern Greenland Sea and Fram Strait between 1988 and 2014. Polar Biology 40: 1029-1034.
Maftei, M.; Davis, S.E.; Uher-Koch, B.D.; Gesmundo, C.; Suydam, R.; Mallory, M.L. 2014. Quantifying fall migration of Ross’s gulls (Rhodostethia rosea) past Point Barrow, Alaska. Polar Biology 37(11): 1705-1710.
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Richards, A. 1990. Seabirds of the northern hemisphere. Dragon's World Ltd, Limpsfield, U.K.
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Wetlands International. 2016. Waterbird Population Estimates. Available at: https://wpe.wetlands.org.
Detailed species account from European Red List of Birds (BirdLife International 2015)
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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Ross's Gull Rhodostethia rosea. Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/rosss-gull-rhodostethia-rosea on 22/12/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 22/12/2024.