adult great black-backed gull has a white head, neck and underparts, dark grey wings and back, pink legs and yellow bill. The great black-backed gull was...
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The lesser black-backed gull (Larus fuscus) is a large gull that breeds on the Atlantic coasts of Europe. It is migratory, wintering from the British Isles...
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large gull, being easily the world's largest black-headed gull and the third largest species of gull in the world, after the great black-backed gull and...
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overlaps with the Pacific gull), and New Zealand (where it is known as the black-backed gull, the southern black-backed gull, mollyhawk – particularly...
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the herring gull until 2007. DNA research, however, suggests that the yellow-legged gull is actually closest to the great black-backed gull L. marinus...
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the great black-backed gull, Heermann's gull, the various subspecies of herring gull, the laughing gull, the lesser black-backed gull, Sabine's gull, the...
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in size from the little gull, at 120 grams (4+1⁄4 ounces) and 29 centimetres (11+1⁄2 inches), to the great black-backed gull, at 1.75 kg (3 lb 14 oz)...
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Iceland gull, and can sometimes equal the size of the great black-backed gull, the oft-titled largest gull species. In some areas, glaucous gulls are about...
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Larus (redirect from Large white-headed gull)
which appears to have referred to a gull or other large seabird. The type species is the great black-backed gull (Larus marinus). The genus contains 25...
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The slaty-backed gull (Larus schistisagus) is a large, white-headed gull that breeds on the north-eastern coast of the Palearctic, but travels widely during...
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southern black-backed gull Lesser black-backed gull (Larus fuscus), of the northern Atlantic Great black-backed gull (Larus marinus), of the northern Atlantic...
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The black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) is a small gull that breeds in much of the Palearctic including Europe and also in coastal eastern Canada...
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referred to a gull or other large seabird and argentatus means decorated with silver. The taxonomy of the herring gull/lesser black-backed gull is contentious...
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The black-tailed gull (Larus crassirostris) is a gull native to shorelines of East Asia. The black-tailed gull is medium-sized (46 cm) (19 Inches), with...
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southern California has a darker mantle (approaching that of the Great black-backed gull) and has paler eyes on average. wymani has more advanced plumage...
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The Caspian gull (Larus cachinnans) is a large gull and a member of the herring and lesser black-backed gull complex. The scientific name is from Latin...
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The Vega gull, East Siberian gull, or East Siberian herring gull (Larus vegae) is a large gull of the herring gull/lesser black-backed gull complex which...
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California gull (Larus californicus) is a medium-sized gull, smaller on average than the herring gull, but larger on average than the ring-billed gull (though...
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ring-billed gull (Larus delawarensis) is a medium-sized gull. The genus name is from Latin Larus which appears to have referred to a gull or other large...
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"black", and -kephalos "-headed". This gull breeds almost entirely in the Western Palearctic, mainly in the south east, especially around the Black Sea...
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Ornithological Society as a subspecies of herring gull (L. argentatus). Adults are white with gray back and wings, black wingtips with white spots, and pink legs...
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The laughing gull (Leucophaeus atricilla) is a medium-sized gull of North and South America. Named for its laugh-like call, it is an opportunistic omnivore...
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The little gull (Hydrocoloeus minutus), is a species of gull belonging to the family Laridae which is mainly found in the Palearctic with some colonies...
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thousands of these gulls can form when the feeding conditions are appropriate. The grey-headed gull is slightly larger than the black-headed gull at 42 cm length...
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The Iceland gull (Larus glaucoides) is a medium-sized gull that breeds in the Arctic regions of Canada and Greenland, but not in Iceland (as its name suggests)...
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white and its back and wings are much darker grey than all other gulls of similar size except the larger laughing gull. The wings have black tips with an...
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The brown-headed gull is slightly larger than black-headed gull. The summer adult has a pale brown head, lighter than that of black-headed, a pale grey...
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red-billed gull – New Zealand The head, body, and tail of an adult silver gull are white, and the wings are light grey with white-spotted, black tips. Adults...
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Ross's gull (Rhodostethia rosea) is a small gull, the only species in its genus, although it has been suggested it should be moved to the genus Hydrocoloeus...
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The Pacific gull (Larus pacificus) is a very large gull, native to the coasts of Australia. It is moderately common between Carnarvon in the west, and...
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