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Named after Adolphus Lewis Heermann, 19th-century explorer and naturalist.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Heermann's gull
Today it means: Larus heermanni, a gull resident in the United States, Mexico and extreme southwestern British Columbia, nearly all nesting on Isla Rasa in the Gulf of California, and only rarely found inland. Full definition →