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The adult great black-backed gull is fairly distinctive, as no other very large gull with black on its upper-wings generally occurs in the North Atlantic. In other white-headed North Atlantic gulls, the mantle is generally a lighter grey and, in some species, it is a light powdery grey or even pinkish. [ 11 ]
Black-backed gull may refer to: Kelp gull (Larus dominicanus), of the southern hemisphere, also known as the southern black-backed gull; Lesser black-backed gull ...
The lesser black-backed gull is smaller than the European herring gull. The taxonomy of the herring gull / lesser black-backed gull complex is very complicated; different authorities recognise between two and eight species. This group has a ring species distribution around the Northern Hemisphere. Differences between adjacent forms in this ring ...
The last is the eastern representative of the lesser black-backed gulls back in northwestern Europe, including Great Britain. However, the lesser black-backed gulls and herring gull are sufficiently different that they rarely interbreed; thus, the group of gulls forms a continuum except in Europe, where the two lineages meet.
Bonaparte's gull Great black-backed gull Caspian tern. Order: Charadriiformes Family: Laridae. Laridae is a family of medium to large seabirds and includes gulls, terns, kittiwakes, and skimmers. They are typically gray or white, often with black markings on the head or wings. They have stout, longish bills and webbed feet.
Black-tailed gull, Larus crassirostris (A) Short-billed gull, Larus brachyrhynchus; Ring-billed gull, Larus delawarensis; California gull, Larus californicus; Herring gull, Larus argentatus; Iceland gull, Larus glaucoides; Lesser black-backed gull, Larus fuscus (A) Slaty-backed gull, Larus schistisagus (A) Glaucous-winged gull, Larus ...
Iceland gull (ᓇᐅᔭᕕᒃ) Larus glaucoides; Lesser black-backed gull, Larus fuscus (A) Slaty-backed gull, Larus schistisagus (A) Glaucous-winged gull, Larus glaucescens (A) Glaucous gull (ᓇᐅᔭᕕᒡᔪᐊᖅ, ᕐᑲᐅᒪᐅᒃ, naujaq, naujavigjuaq) Larus hyperboreus; Great black-backed gull, Larus marinus; Caspian tern, Hydroprogne ...
Slaty-backed gull (skiffertrut), Larus schistisagus (A) Glaucous gull (vittrut), Larus hyperboreus; Great black-backed gull (havstrut), Larus marinus; Sooty tern (sottärna), Onychoprion fuscatus (A) Bridled tern (tygeltärna), Onychoprion anaethetus (A) Little tern (småtärna), Sternula albifrons; Gull-billed tern (sandtärna), Gelochelidon ...