The grey-headed gull (Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus), also known as the grey-hooded gull, is a small gull which breeds along the eastern coast of South America and across much of sub-Saharan Africa. The bird is quite noisy and its voice is similar to a crow. Despite its presence on both sides of the Atlantic ocean these birds are not pelagic – they typically do not wander far from land. The South American subspecies is slightly larger than the African subspecies and its upper-parts are paler grey.
