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An eastern towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) singing, Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, United States Blackbird song. Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs.In non-technical use, bird songs (often simply birdsong) are the bird sounds that are melodious to the human ear.
As is common with other gulls, they are colloquially referred to simply as seagulls. It occurs in a variety of habitats including coasts, lakes, rivers, parking lots and garbage dumps . Its broad diet includes invertebrates , fish , and many other items.
The Pacific gull is a large white-headed gull with a distinctively heavy bill.. Gulls range 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) and 76 cm (30 in).
The European herring gull (Larus argentatus) is a large gull, up to 66 cm (26 in) long. [2] It breeds throughout the northern and western coasts of Europe. Some European herring gulls, especially those resident in colder areas, migrate further south in winter, but many are permanent residents, such as in Ireland, Britain, Iceland, or on the North Sea shores.
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Sabine's gull is a small gull, 27 to 33 cm (10 + 1 ⁄ 2 –13 in) in length and weighing 135 to 225 g (4 + 3 ⁄ 4 – 7 + 15 ⁄ 16 oz). The wings are long, thin and pointed with a span of between 81 and 87 cm (32– 34 + 1 ⁄ 2 in). The bill, which is black with a yellow tip, is around 2.5 cm (1 in) long.
The kelp gull (Larus dominicanus), also known as the Dominican gull, is a gull that breeds on coasts and islands through much of the Southern Hemisphere. The nominate L. d. dominicanus is the subspecies found around South America, parts of Australia (where it overlaps with the Pacific gull), and New Zealand (where it is known as the black-backed gull, the southern black-backed gull, mollyhawk ...
The western gull is a large gull that can measure 55 to 68 cm (22 to 27 in) in total length, spans 130 to 144 cm (51 to 57 in) across the wings, and weighs 800 to 1,400 g (1.8 to 3.1 lb). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The average mass among a survey of 48 gulls of the species was 1,011 g (2.229 lb). [ 5 ]