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The red-billed gull is a fairly small gull with an all-red bill, red eye ring, red legs and feet, pale grey wings with black wingtips. The rest of the body and tail are white. There is virtually no visual difference between the male and female birds.
Gulls, like all wild birds, have long been protected by law. ... UK's gull population has declined by more than 60% since 1970, with overfishing and climate change among the suspected causes.
The American herring gull or Smithsonian gull (Larus smithsonianus or Larus argentatus smithsonianus) is a large gull that breeds in North America, where it is treated by the American 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.
The little gull has a body length of 24 to 28 cm (9.4 to 11.0 in) and a wing span of 62 to 69 cm (24 to 27 in), [7] making it the smallest gull species in the world. [8] The adults in breeding plumage have a black hood, dark red bill, bright red legs and a rosy flush to the underside.
The eyes are dark in some species, or with a distinctive white iris in others; the legs and bills are bright to very dark red. [ 6 ] Representatives of this genus are found in regions/subregions all over the world, except for Antarctica; the species are often parapatric , but with two species together in New Zealand, the Mediterranean region ...
Herring gulls have caused havoc for construction workers by walking on wet concrete laid as part of a regeneration project in Norfolk. Foundation slabs are being laid in the market place in Great ...
The thick bill is blue with a yellow tip, and the legs are black. The bill is tipped with red, and the eyes have a fleshy, bright red eye-ring in the breeding season. Its flight call cry is a harsh, tern-like keeeer. It has many other vocalizations, including a warbling "fox-call" that indicates potential predators such as an Arctic fox, polar ...
The dolphin gull (Leucophaeus scoresbii), sometimes erroneously called the red-billed gull (a somewhat similar but unrelated species from New Zealand), is a gull native to southern Chile and Argentina, and the Falkland Islands. It is a coastal bird inhabiting rocky, muddy and sandy shores and is often found around seabird colonies.