A small gull that breeds in wet Arctic tundra; breeding adults show a pale pink wash and a black collar.
Adults in breeding plumage have pale pearly-gray backs, pink underparts, and a thin black collar. In nonbreeding plumage, the pink and collar are faint or absent.
It nests in wetlands near ponds and river deltas, then forages near pack ice in the Arctic Ocean after breeding.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.